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I thought it was a list of contacts from his literal phone book, lists of people who's phone numbers he wrote down - so anyone he ever phoned could be on there. If it's the same list that was leaked last year then it's going to be pretty meaningless.

That's not much tax for a while year, this is pennies to a central government.

Normally the police simply enforce the laws which are made by the politicians or 'lawmakers' Because it's the job of elected officials to change laws, not appointed civil servant bureaucrats.

I doubt it - how do you think the Chinese would feel about that unless they get 90 days as well? They're not going to accept it and when that happens they pull the plug.

Low level workers rarely have access to all the information on file about you.

lol, of course not.

Yes. The rest is irrelevant, they were guilty of exceeding the exact description of what was on their work permit. The undercover aspect of people lying in wait posing as customers and waiting to pounce when a chef does something not 100% chef related, and instigating it - they were immigration police posing as customers in one place. They didn't arrest anyone - it was only about money.

Good point - my wire arrived today, just under 250k Baht, I sent it last year and it arrived on the first banking day of the year, today.

I wouldn't sell this news when/if it comes. It fundamentally changes the entire market. I do expect potential 'turbulence' on the day

I too would buy another Toyota.

A good point, none of us are tax resident here for this year until about the beginning of July.

lol, I sent a wire on Thursday 28th December, 2023 and it hasn't arrived yet. I'll bet the slackers at my bank in the UK were mostly on holiday between Christmas and New Year and didn't process it. I sent quite a bit more than normal, about 250k Baht and sometimes they send it to their compliance department for whatever reason even though the amounts are relatively low - and I'll bet that's the big office with just one or two staff in there between Christmas and New Year. Maybe I get it Jan 2.

There's plenty of room for hearsay and anecdotes, after all we should remember - this is a discussion forum, not a legal review.

I watched 'The Family Plan' last night, very average but something to do for a couple of hours. I've been running out of things to watch lately so have lowered the bar and started to watch things I would normally skip. I still have Oppenheimer on my USB but have yet to watch it due to its length, will get around to it one day. Looking forward to Napoleon in the new year even though the reviews were not fantastic.

No, leave it open.

I had no idea he was still alive

Indeed - it's complete nonsense and will never happen, ever.

In addition to this, you might be living in Thailand remitting millions of Baht every month between Jan 1 and June 20th when you leave and don't return until Jan 3 the following year - making you a non tax resident for the year in question rendering all those millions and anything else you decide to send during the rest of the year non taxable regardless of where it comes from and its tax status. This is why it will never happen as residency isn't decided until the 181st day of the yeat and us foreigners can be highly mobile.

I am very surprised this is still required as it's not required for general entry to the country any more since about May. If you really want to avoid it I would wait a year or two - these vaccines probably won't exist at all by then.

That's inexcusable, I take it you paid extra for the porter service? Edit: I think that's the same company we used when booking but it was in January 2020 so a few years back.

My mother who has issues with her back and carrying luggage always used the buggy service and fast track, she was over 70 anyway but paid for the buggy and the porter to handle the luggage - there's no way she would ever be able to lift her case off the carousel on her own. The porter made sure she found whoever I sent to collect her.

Was it any good? I downloaded it recently buy haven't watched it yet. Maybe I'll watch it tonight

Are you by any chance in the UK or anywhere else in Europe?

You should have done a new 90 day report when doing the extension removing the need to go twice. Here in Hua Hin you don't even need to ask them - they will do it for you if it's due when you get them to do the extension, they're quite helpful like that and they didn't make me queue twice - but it's pretty quiet here compared to a lot of other places, especially in November when I do my extension at the moment.

Well they wouldn't see any ssh connections if it's going over a VPN as they would be hidden in whatever tunnel the VPN is using. So if this happens while using the VPN it suggests to me that the cause is something else not directly related to ssh - at least not on your end. I had a TOT connection many years ago and it used to disconnect/reconnect as well but I think it was more to do with the DCHP lease time between the router and the ISP itself but I didn't bother to dig deeper into it.