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If they ask then just tell them your NI number, job done and forget about it.

When did you last visit these areas? How many decades ago?

Does it really cost £4,000 per KG in the UK?

From what I heard you get one only when filing your own tax returns, if you're a PAYE tax payer then you won't have one - simple as that.

The TIN for British nationals tends to be the 'National Insurance Number' - I have only ever used that in the past but I am going back a long time here, like 15 to 20 years

Has anyone who's not from the US received this email...so far? I see they mention CRS as well which is a non US thing.

Oh yes, less of this sort of thing, whatever that may be as the article sure doesn't mention what they did.....

Indeed, I once drank some 'Johnny Walker Black' with Coke which made me a bit ill, can't remember exactly what happened as this was a long time back and I've been ill on a few occasions, it was maybe 8 or 9 years ago. Anyway I complained about it to the owner of the bar and she said something along the lines of 'that's the last time I buy whisky from the police'.

No coincidence that a bunch of government workers who negotiated these treaties exempted their own pensions and ignored everyone else. That's the civil service for you.

The article specifically states this : "Methanol, unlike ethanol found in standard alcoholic drinks, is highly toxic and often used by bootleggers to increase alcohol content cheaply but with lethal results." which implies it was added deliberately by someone and that this is a normal kind of thing for bootleggers to do. It's not. Why would someone do this deliberately? Well it's been done before by a government (10,000 dead from it) I might add, see here : https://slate.com/technology/2010/02/the-little-told-story-of-how-the-u-s-government-poisoned-alcohol-during-prohibition.html

Nonsense. It's added by poisoners who want to kill people.

Surely he kept his mouth shut and called the insurance company who will handle any payments or negotiations on his behalf. I hear that sometimes they make payments to them just to make them 'go away' and stop being a nuisance, even if the 'victim' is at fault - because it can cost less in the long run.

I hope Starmer is summoned to DC for a 'knee bending' ceremony 🤣

What does the insurance company say on this matter? He will have insurance on his car, I'm pretty sure of that or he would have paid up. If in an accident phone the insurance company immediately and they will handle it - never negotiate with anyone directly.

Yes, what you saw here is a rare glimpse of what they really think - they let the mask fall, only momentarily but this is the truth all the same. They hate us.

Or just send someone else to do it, you don't need to do them in person - only extensions require your presence if you do it alone and without an agent.

That doesn't matter, it keeps them on the road where the accident happens instead of risking causing an additional incident on the road below. People die every die on the road, it's about minimising secondary issues - luckily they didn't fall into the windscreen of an oncoming vehicle in heavy traffic. That would have ended in a much worse outcome.

How about a fence of some kind, wouldn't even need to be that high.

I started paying last year sometime when they increased the ads, total waste of my time, especially when I'm just listening to some music or something where there's multiple videos. I do wonder though, does the content producer get paid only on ad views or the number of plays? Because if it's purely on ad views then they're directly competing against their own creators which seems counterintuitive.

It's simple really, you sell the house during a year of non residency in Thailand, then there is never any liability in Thailand when the resulting funds are remitted. If however you make the mistake of residing in Thailand in the year you sell the house in Australia then yes, they will want to tax you on the capital gains even if it's zero rated back home - so keep to less than 180 days during and years of 'big profit' and you're good.

My next car will be a normal one

No, so when you sell something (anything) like shares, bonds, gold, Bitcoin, houses, etc - it's said that you 'realise' the profit / capital gain when you sell them assuming there's a gain.

Yes, you can make and transfer as much as you want during a non resident year but the money must also be also be 'realised' during a non resident year - often going to be the same year but perhaps not always. This is the approach I'm taking but I'm going the extra mile and will be non resident for a few years going forward as I don't like their approach and will wait for the dust to truly settle on this whole thing before making additional decisions. Now this next bit is just a hunch but you may open yourself up to potential audits if you send very large amounts of money in a non resident year and of course during an audit they can look back many years and I know a lot of us were likely remitting mingled funds over the last 10 years. Of course if you remain non resident then you won't be needing a TIN assuming those you bank with will work without one.

How does that work? Do they have long range and permanent electricity requirements? Would you need to charge the 'tag' every day or week or hard wire it into the vehicle and put a sim into it?

Even if you were looking for work and actively doing job interviews every time you came - there's nothing wrong with that as it would lead to the proper visa and work permit. You got an <deleted> of an immigration officer who doesn't believe that anyone works legitimately in Thailand even though it doesn't apply to you and is most definitely not the case.