CWMcMurray

So how much in Thailand? Maybe interesting as pick up usually in the lowest tax brackets for autos in Thailand ...

Been a couple times over the last 5-6 years .... Tons of cars ... Long lines for parking...

But so long as you are patient and willing to wait through the line... You will eventually find parking

Does anyone have a link to the English translation of the recent Animal Welfare Law passed by NLC last Nov?

Anyone find a bit Ironic that that 'applicants' we're paying a bribe to take an ethics course to circumvent the regulations for hiring of civil servants ....

Seems the scammer does have a sense of humor...

Think oversight and confirmation hearings for ministers is a good thing...

Don't have any problem with laws being proposed by Senate...

Presumably laws can also be proposed by House as well.. .. And if the house and Senate bills don't match, then likely a joint/house & senate committee to try and compromise and issue bills that both can agree to..

The above sounds similar to US system ... No problem their...

The 10 mil. $ question for me is who has the power to nominate the Senetors?

Are they some committee? If so, how does one become a committee member?

How long does some one remain on this Committee?

What types of checks and balances are in place to prevent corruption or any abuse of power by these appointment committees ?

And because it was banned... It was the top search on Google today...

Trickbyte is a good one.. Also very cheap

There are various stocked ponds around...

There is one I know of on Patthana Chonabot road... Right by Rom Khlao exit of express way (last exit before airport...

https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/Thanon+Phatthana+Chonnabot+Rd,+Khet+Lat+Krabang,+Krung+Thep+Maha+Nakhon+10520/@13.731783,100.737093,18.8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x311d66e129774609:0xf48d4541f0c427a3?hl=en-US

For toddlers can be tough , as they are too small for a lot of the rides at parks ...

Also even zoo can be tough, as is a lot of walking, which can be tough for toddlers

Some of the best that my kids loved are

1: Funarium - indoor playground

2: Ocean world

3: safari world (the drive through park, not the walk around part)

Although they had fun at all 3 places... Winner hands down is the Funarium... Kids have been a dozen times and is always where they ask to go again if we have some free time

http://www.funarium.co.th/

It depends what you

Plan on using it for... For me it is just email and web surfing ...

So bottom of the line Acer does everything I need in a lap top...

Buying an apple or any other high end laptop would just be a waste of money for me...

Kind of like buying your own helicopter to commute to work.. When your office is 300m down the road...

I'm with the PM on this one... If priests are corrupt, they should not be exempt from scrutiny

Especially since they are tax exempt...

In general find it repulsive that religious organizations think they are above the law

Have to disagree with much of the below post...

This tax has nothing to do with race ... It is not designed to 'get us foreigners'..

It is based on trying to get the more wealthy to pay more in taxes.. Which is a progressive tax system... Some agree with these types of taxes and some don't.. But nothing to do with foreigners

It doesn't say foreigners pay 2 % and Thai's pay 0.5%...

When it comes to homes over 3 million , the majority of home owners in Thailand are Thai's not foreigners...

When you get to the homes +10 million and +50 mill.... Even less foreigners invoked (as a percentage)... As most of these super top end homes are owned by the Thai wealthy or are owned by maybe those who are not 'cash rich', but own a piece of land in Bangkok that has been handed down for generations that may be worth 100 mil+

In our Moo Baan for example(houses 3.3-4.5 mil)... About 150+ houses and only a couple foreigners in the bunch... But of course even if a foreigner is involved, the owners are the Thai wives or Thai companies... So would be considered Thai anyway

In fact, since foreigners can't own houses or land... Seems inconceivable that this is aimed at foreigners in any way shape or form...

Thailand is learning fast how to screw the people with taxes! Sale tax at Malls for merchandise now at 7% and want to raise it to 8%

The new-bee of property tax on houses worth 1-2 million baht, and full rate of tax for homes over 3 million baht. They know darn well

most foreigners wives own property (homes) in that price range. Look at Chiang Mai, Thousands of new home developments mostly

bought by foreigners. Hey, wake up PM, start collecting tax off of the millions of street venders in Bangkok. Start taxing 1/2 baht on every

bottle of soda pop and coke sold through out the country. If you want to raise taxes, hit everyone, not just the ones well off. How about 1baht tax

on every roll of toilet paper? Everyone should pay on that. 1baht tax on every tube of toothpaste sold in the country. How about taxing all those small

Mom and Pop stores collect the 7% tax on merchandise they supposedly should be collecting for you, but haven't lately. When it comes to; zoo's

Museums, Parks, Points of interest along side roads, the foreigner get charged more than Thais. At every turn we make, someone has their hand out

for more money. Is this the typical attitude of the Thais, and now the Thai Government is doing the same thing on Land and House tax increase. Who is going to value the the property in question? The government? Are they going to asses by who is living in the house? Foreigners, Value of property goes up?(more taxes)

I'm sure the Thai Government will find ways to return this tax back to the Thai people in refunds, but forget for those who are not legal residents

of Thailand. Here is a new phrase for you "Tax discrimination based upon residency." If you're not a Thai citizen you get over charged, over taxed,

and because you came to Thailand to see all the beautiful sights and sounds, you pay extra!........I don't know if I broke any rules in this post, but

the truth has to come out from somewhere!

Would definitely change some things .... As all of a sudden, it becomes pretty important to rent or utilize property and land in high value areas...

There is a piece of property that has a run down and falling apart house on it just off off of Suk that I pass on the way to work for many years now...

All of a sudden, the land owner may face hundreds of thousands of THB every year ... That would likely force their hand to do something with the property pretty quick

Seems pretty straightforward. Without an approved sabbatical, they have to remove him for not showing up to work. It's a job after all.

Accept for the part where he tried to resign and it says that the University would not accept his resignation...

That's just odd ... Unless the University didn't want to have him quit, but may have had some other agenda

Agree... If he ain't at class, not realistic that they can keep him on the payroll

But why not accept his resignation ??

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It's interesting to see all the knowitalls on the thread that seem to think that all the drug related crime will disappear when drugs are legalised.

When will it sink in with the drug brigade that there's a lot more to drug related crime than just the current crimes of the substances being illegally made, grown and sold etc.

Do you really think that people will suddenly stop being addicted to these substances just because they are no longer illegal.

Of course then there's some on these pages that will support some drugs but not others.....they're the same people putting crapp on me because I stand solid in the face of these evil substances.

Do you crackpots really want your children and grandchildren being able to buy hard drugs at the corner store for use behind the playground toilets. Seriously.

What about the drugs that increase violence in society, like the ones UG stated above, live and let live you say?

Get real. Get a brain.

The world is slowly filling with idiots and they are starting to out number the decent folk.

I'm an ex police officer and dealt with many users so I think I can have an educated say on this.

While you are indeed correct, a large number of crimes such as theft/ fraud/ robbery can be attributed to drug addiction the arguement to legalise drugs would be that these people are addicts even though it's illegal- if drugs were legalised and controlled (just as Alcohol and Tobacco is) then the drugs would be cleaner, cheaper, those addicted would be easier to monitor than having it sold and consumed in the shadows. The taxation from such drugs could be used to help those who are hard core users, the criminal element would be greatly reduced (how many Mexicans would that save?) and the attraction to many would be decreased as it would no longer be illegal.

In my time in the police I arrested more violent drunks than people comitting crime because of "illegal" drugs.

As an ex-police officer, you may find this group interesting...

LEAP --- Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

http://www.leap.cc/about/why-legalize-drugs/

I have a 2 year old dual citizen Thai British son. Drug dealers, remove the need for them.

Legalise all drugs for adults, regulate distribution, and redirect the money saved on a pointless and unwinnable 'war', and the tax income gained, toward education regarding moderation and choices.

Also fund detox and care for those that don't learn it where necessary - as with alcohol and tobacco.

Why should people who dislike drugs pay for idiots who make a conscientious derision to kill themselves, Fact Alcohol and drugs, and Tobacco kill. You choice but don't involve me

You already are, considerably more.

Every taxpayer

1 - Has funded a wholly unsuccesful international 'war' for the last 45 years

2 - Funds long term incarceration of simple users at an astronomic yearly cost

3 - Pays for vastly extravagant police numbers in order to enforce this 'war' (a number of whom, across the world, are in on the game)

4 - Pays far higher insurance premiums (and enjoys a lower quality of life) due to petty crime commited by addicts that pay 100 times the manufacturing cost for bad quality addiction-optimised substances

5 - Suffers the cost of the distribution of these substances by nefarious types that use the money to fund international terrorism among other activities.

And many more.

Official, regulated distribution and manufacture would remove each of those costs, and have a far smaller financial and social impact to the non drug user. It would also (as with the regulated tobacco and alcohol industry) create both jobs and tax revenue.

Have to agree with this...

Does anyone actually believe the War on Drugs can ever 'win the war'?

By win, I mean that's it ... We won, no more drugs... No more war...

Of course not, so the reality is that there will always be drug users and drugs in the market place...

So if we all know that there will always be drugs in the market place, who would you prefer to run and regulate the market place?

Governments and government. Agencies that can regulate what goes into drugs and who can sell and consume and where they can be consumed?

Along with collecting huge tax revenues to fund re-jab and education and anti- drug messages

Or gangsters , terrorists, mafias and cartels? Who care for nothing other than making a buck to find their elicit businesses?

And legalizing doesn't mean the flood gate open... Still illegal to drive intoxicated, jobs can still screen and test employees if they want ... After all not allowed to get drunk on the job, even though alcohol is legal

And I don't know about you, but if heroin was legal... I ain't going out and buying any heroin...

Why, because I know how addictive and bad for you it is... And how do I know? From education and seeing what is has done to others...

But anyone who wants to do heroin now, can easily find it any where in the world ...

Also remember from when I was a teenager... Alcohol was legal and drugs illegal... But was a heck of a lot easier to buy drugs than alcohol...

Liquor stores would be fined and imprisoned if they sold to minors and as they were law abiding business men... They did not want to risk selling to minors...

But the illegal drug dealers had no such compunctions and would sell crack to a 5 year old if he had the money in his hand...

The war on drugs has been a complete failure. Maybe the police are tired of knocking their heads against a wall.

Is there anywhere in the world where the war on drugs actually works?

Even in countries with the death penalty for drug related offenses doesn't act as an effective deterrent...

Maybe it's time to come up with a better solution.

21000 + 30% import = 27300 (6300 import).

27300 + 7% VAT = 29211 (1911 VAT).

= 8200 in taxes

do they charge anything else ?

Tax is based on CIF value not invoice value... So also need to add in the freight charges... Which for Courier mode have a set 'per kg rate' for every country of origin that customs uses to calculate for duty and cat valuation

For Insurance premium cost for calculation of CIF value, customs will use 1% of invoice value of no receipt for insurance showing the premium amount

Once adding in the Freight and Insurance cost, the above will go up

Ais and true move are phone companies...

True does have cable company 'True Visions' which offer all the channels you mentioned above...

Although do not think AIS offers any cable TV service(at least not that I have heard)

Many don't like true but not a whole lot of choice out there for cable providers with a lot of foreign language channels..

Which is why a lot of expats find ways to stream via Internet from other sources

Talented

Maestro ... Will post one last one, but understand should be clear.

Maestro... Here's another Pop up add on TV app

Are you sure these Pop ups are not sanctioned by TV?