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Yes thanks but it's spread across many websites - the information is out there and in 2024 so many left that it was far more than many previous years combined with predicted results for this year also very high. It's OK though as the intent was to make the rich pay - which worked - so they left. Job done, except now they're running out of other peoples money. There's a long history of this kind of policy failure over the decades and nearly all of them were eventually rolled back and abolished. So either they're completely and utterly incompetent or planned this.

Not really, there's a massive censorship engine working overtime in Thailand. Eveyrthing you do goes through the wrongthink department before it's allowed or denied.

Give it a week, perhaps 2.

Yeah, this often happens. Raising taxes is one way to get rid of all your wealthy. Great job. Thailand is doomed to follow this same road and the result will be the same unless they get their act together. Remember though, we're one election away from this exact same path, it's what the people voted for last time there was an election. The only reason it's not in place already is because extraordinary measures were taken to keep Move Forward out. Those measures are now collapsing by the day.

If this Move Forward of whatever they're calling themselves ever get into power expect massive changes. Think of them of a kind of Bernie Sanders type operation, they want all your money. I believe one of their stated goals was to start taxing all gains made on the stock exchange of Thailand (SEC). They would inevitably fail quickly and massively of course but that won't stop them from doing it - it never does with these lefty types, look at what's happening in the UK - everyone with any money who's in a position to leave is leaving.

Yeah we all hope for low taxes and some of us take measures to ensure them. But until the ink is dry nothing is official regardless of how much they need the money - if the current government ends then nothing is going to be completed - it will be all on hold so it most certainly is an option to wait. If the government fails and is replaced with whatever's left of the move forward party - what do you think they policy is going to be on tax? It certainly won't be good

They do facial recognition on my ABA account in Cambodia and it works perfectly well. Can't you pop down to the local branch and get them to set it up for you like all the Thais?

Both of these changes are not yet official and due to political changes in the ruling coalition there is a very real possibility of total government collapse in the coming weeks. If it doesn't collapse then there may be a minority government and that changes things. Best to wait and see, there's a lot going on right now.

Has it been published in the Royal Gazette is the question, I believe it's a Ministerial Regulation so would be subject to a lot less scrutiny than a royal decree - therefore it's easier to get done. But it still needs publishing, because if anything prevents that from happening than nothing changes. Await confirmation Also - if you can't read the text of the law or regulation then it doesn't exist in its final form yet regardless of what some exchanges might say.

Proposed change not yet enacted. Just like the proposed change to the same and subsequent year remittance rules. Mere proposals at this stage. They make a lot of announcements about these proposals, many never see the light of day.

Yes, I use it. It's very useful. I never did use the free version, I went straight in with the paid tier so I have nothing to compare it to - been using it and a couple of other paid services for a few years now. I've used them since they got better at providing results than google for specific types of questions. I don't use it to think for me, I ask it very specific technical questions and it provides answers, not always correct but mostly correct. The thing is, I'm smart enough to know when it's talking rubbish and point it out and the response is typically 'You're right to point that out, here is a reviewed answer' or something like that. But I generally know what I'm talking about when using it - I'm just asking for details on something very specific like a linux commands parameter format or a database structure inside a well known open source system and how one thing relates to another inside the system in the databases, etc, even if I know little about that system I can very quickly determine if it's wrong and tell it so - then it will come back with a corrected answer. Sometimes with technical questions like this it may be referring to an older or newer version of whatever it is I'm using so it's not entirely wrong - just wrong for my specific use case. Now if I'm looking for something very specific that is more suited to a keyword search I will use google. Just knowing the difference between these 2 type of search / query is half the job.

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Exactly, urgent government business you see. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Many times I've come across these badly worded signs - they nearly all say 'Buy 1, Get 1' - I sarcastically said to the Mrs that I always get 1 when I buy 1 so what's the big offer 🤣

Only Thaksin himself can sort this mess out, what's the odds he leaves the country for Cambodia in the next couple of weeks on an emergency mission to save the day?

Nothing about the 'reversal' has changed yet. Until it's published in the Gazette it's just civil service waffle. When it gets published it will be major news.

Did any go with the less than 180 days a year route?

Not gonna happen. Many Thais in Cambodia too.

These people are earning far more money in Thailand than they can do back home in Cambodia and most of them literally won't give a crap about some border dispute that their lords and masters have. I'm in Phnom Penh now with the Mrs and she often speaks to Tuk Tuk drivers and other Cambodians who can speak Thai because they learned it long ago while doing such work. They were very happy with the outcome of their time spent in Thailand and the extra money they earned allowed them to purchase tuk tuks, open small businesses, etc, etc. There will be no exodus no matter what happens.

Well that didn't take long, completely expected. Lets not forget the reason why he's there - the coalition.

I had the same issue when buying a car - they wanted me to have a tint so dark I wouldn't be able to see through it Coming from the UK I don't generally need a tint of any kind really and simply turn the AC on if I want the car cool so I insisted on the minimum - this guy really did not want to sell me the car without the maximum tint but I insisted as I could hardly see through it in the day and there's nothing wrong with my eyes - no wonder they're killing each other on the roads every day. I'm still not entirely sure he didn't ramp it up a notch on the order before delivering - still I've had this car for some time now (10 years or so) and it's ok but could do with being a shade lighter. I often drive in the evening as well, a lot more than during the daytime.

I'm in Phnom Penh right now and can confirm that the Mrs was watching the Thai 'Channel 3' earlier today and then it suddenly went offline with a 'No Signal' error. She then went shopping for an hour or two and when she returned Channel 3 had been replaced by some Chinese TV station on the same 'channel number'. Also my 'Cellcard' internet service is very bad today but the apartment internet is good.... lol

Yes, and he announced only a few days ago that he will be staying in his current job. So he's been fired and quite publicly. I wonder if it will break the coalition apart and force a new election

I buy a load of these and use them until they run out which can be like 5+ years. Haircuts change a bit but that's about it really. Losing or gaining weight can be a bit of a give away as well!

The fact is you can be walking down the street and some random psycho or a group of them can attack you and you're expected to pay the resulting bills. This sounds like a crime problem to me. Another thing that annoys me is when someone is knocked off a bike or run over while crossing the road - the driver flees and the foreigner therefore must pay millions of Baht or die. Zero accountability.