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Both of the above are ponzi type schemes. It's the same in many countries. The collected tax is used to pay the current recipients. Now if you're capable of slightly advanced thinking you will realise that new payments are required to pay older recipients who used to pay into the system. Just like with a ponzi where new investors fund the payments to old investors. Many people will not see this connection. The UK works exactly the same as I'm sure do all the other countries with large socialised pensions and health systems. There is generally no huge fund earning massive amounts of profit every year saved up to pay for the future - it's all squandered on the whim of whatever leader is running the country at the time. So the ponzi analogy is correct in this case.

Nothing, it's just a land mass, nothing more. It used to be more useful than it currently is due to tax regulations.

Someone's tightening the screws here, if he wants out then he will leave one way or another.

For brisk fresh air you need to go inside and make sure you set the AC low a few hours before, especially if it's a large room. You get used to it after a decade or so, I don't even notice the humidity any more. I mean I know it's hot when walking around but the humidity used to feel like breathing steam or something like being in a sauna, the one with water - not any more though, that sensation disappeared long ago.

Until you reach 50 your more immediate problems will be visas.

Maybe now the Chinese tour groups will be allowed to resume?

Yeah when something similar happened to me I went down there and said - I know it's here - get it. They took me in the back and there were racks full of mail, after about 5 or 10 minutes they found it and handed it over. I was a little surprised, in the UK they would just tell you to go away.

Sometimes you need to go to the local delivery office and make enquiries - then perhaps they can get things moving for you.

Looking at my app settingd I've set it to allow 500k Baht per day in transfers - I paid for an Elite visa extension with this app once. But then it mentions something about a 'Face Per Transaction' limit which is 50,000 Baht - I've never had to use that before but I think it was introduced after I did the visa renewal payment. To send the 500k Baht it just wanted the pin and worked immediately. It also has a quick pay limit which is set to 0 - I don't even know what they is

I see, so they can travel visa free so long as they get the visa 🤣

Lol, I bet he's popular now wherever he is

Well I'm off to Cambodia again, short 1 hour flight, I'm going twice this year for a little over 3 months each time. Definitely going to minimize my tax.

Yep - you're getting ripped off far more than citizens of other countries do.

This is what the US Embassy said 2 days ago on Friday - who do you choose to believe?

Correct, it's a book.

Yes, that's right. As the recent alert from the US Embassy points our - the last time they deported a bunch of these guys back to China there were bombings in places frequented by Chinese. Will it happen again - in my opinion yes, it's just a matter of time.

They simply want to know if you have any foreign tax residencies. If you're from the US then the answer is yes, you do - even if you haven't been there for a very long time. If you're from almost anywhere else and have resided in Thailand full time for years then you won't have any other residencies as they tend to be based on actually staying in the country for a certain number of years. If on the other hand you don't actually live in Thailand full time then they're going to want your foreign tax id numbers so they can report your balances every year like CRS mandates.

It you're flying you need to leavea minimum of 4 to 5 hours before departure - depending on road works, etc. I've been hopping over to and from Cambodia a few times recently and the 'airport run' is a complete pain - takes far too long and you have to build in contingencies just in case of extra traffic Normally you end up sitting there in the airport like an idiot with nothing to do for hours - if there's no traffic. The worst part - my flight time is only 50 minutes on these trips!

Is it ever the other vehicle drivers fault and therefore their insurance pays for the hospital bills or are you on your own every single time?

Did you already have a Thai tax ID from previous employment, reclaiming interest earned on savings, etc in past years gone by or anything like that?

Yeah and when I lived in the UK the only place you would find Kangaroo was in the fridge or freezer as steaks

Also if you live here and are not resident in your country of origin or anywhere else then the whole thing is quite redundant - they won't want or need your income details in say the UK if you've lived here for a decade and are non resident. This whole CRS thing seems to be confusing people - from the Wests approach they're looking for people who have accounts in Thailand who actually live in the UK / Europe, etc but secretly use a Thai account to avoid paying UK taxes - that's why they want the information - but it's only relevant if you are a tax resident in the foreign country.

So your bank instructed you to get some kind of proof of tax filing a full month before it's due even though you didn't need to do one. Did you already have a tax id number? That is really odd

I don't know about that - they made us do it and nobody questioned it. It was normal anyway, like I said - nobody cared or had any concerns.

I always used to have a carbon monoxide alarm when living in a house that used gas.