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I went to the TRD office in Kamphaeng Phet this morning to register. I took 1 Passport plus a copy of all the pages 2 My pink Thai ID card plus a copy 3 My yellow house book plus a copy 4 A print out of money transferred to Thailand during 2024 5 A copy of my address confirmed by the British Embassy 6 A copy of our marriage certificate in English and in Thai The lady only looked at the income and tells me that I owe 15,059 baht in Thai income tax. She quoted me (and wrote it down that my allowances were Age allowance 190,000 thb correct 50% deduction for pension income, up to 100k - 100,000 thb correct My allowance 60.000 thb correct Allowance for my wife 60,000 thb correct Allowance for my son 30,000 thb correct However she had no idea that my military pension in Thailand is tax exempt Nor does she understand that it does NOT matter how much income I get in the UK, BUT on how much money I actually transfer into Thailand In addition, the first 150,000 Baht of income is zero rated for tax. These things combined mean that the first 500,000 Baht of income received in Thailand each year, will not be taxable. She suggested that I contacted the pension providers to get how much income I earned in the Thai tax year 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024. I got through to HMRC this afternoon (in only 8 minutes) but the UK tax year runs from 06 April to 05 April the following year so they can only provide me with some information (by snail mail) for the 2023/2024 tax year. I now have to contact my other 2 pension providers to see if they can tell me how much tax I paid in the UK 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024. I think that I shall have to contact TRD Central and see what information they can give me.

That is something that I have been saying for years.

Not so, as his party could not form a government. Now if it was a FPTP (First Past The Post system), then theoretically Pita would be elected PM, BUT as a minority government they may well have had a problem ruling the country and passing laws etc.

But the party that the people voted for could not form a government. IIRC the party with the most seats at the last election did not gain an overall majority. Therefore they needed a coalition with other parties to become the government. As they could not form a coalition government in the required time period, (30 days I think), the party with the next highest number of seats gets the chance to form a coalition government. PTP could and did, form a workable coalition government, otherwise the party with the next number of seats would be given the chance, and so on, until there are no more choices. And it is all perfectly legal. I suppose at that point there has to be a new election.

No military coup general is ever better than a freely elected PM voted for by the people of the country. He only becomes a dictator.

Still far better for Thailand than ANY military coup government.

But who dared to wake him up?

If you believe anything that Tucker Carson says then you will believe this. Sadly many people do.

Not as much of a show as when I tested a shower and got a nasty load of belts off it, because I didn't unplug it from the mains before I dis-assembled it. he wasn't there and luckily my wife pulled the plug. literally, from the wall socket. Not a job I would want to repeat.

That won't even cover the cost of building the circuit let alone maintaining it, not to mention the costs and the delays involved in diverting all the traffic commuters and deliveries for the period leading up to and the race days, nor the costs of cleaning the circuit every day during the practice, the actual race and the clear up afterwards. It is obvious, at least to me, that the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT), as revealed by its governor, Kongsak Yodmanee, has never used that road on a daily basis, without a police escort.

I can still do stuff like that, and I am 80. Climbing ladders with dodgy knees like mine is not so easy and I am not happy doing past 3 treads, however if I have to do it, I can, but I don't have to like it. My 20 year Thai son can also do stuff like that and I have been teaching him the basics for time that I can no longer do it and his Mum cannot do it either. At 22 I was stripping and rebuilding car engines.

Meanwhile British men and women are homeless on the streets of the UK.

Actually it takes a whole lot more than a few honest individuals at the very top. The majority of the people in the country to back them up, plus a reasonably honest military and police force. It happened in S Korea very recently and another instance many years ago as well. Apart from that I agree 100%.

But was Thaksin really guilty, or was it a political decision, at least in the minds of the coup generals, to justify the illegal military coup? To me. ANY political conviction under a military coup is an illegal conviction, and should be overturned and expunged from the records, and the justices who convicted them should be fired, and jailed themselves.

How about jailing every general that is still living that has taken part in illegal military coups first. Wouldn't that be a great plan?

And in most other countries in the world, the generals would have been executed for treason against the legally elected government. In Thailand not 1 general has ever been punished, and they steal the whole country, including the police and the justice system. and after the last coup by Prayuth the democrat party supported them.

It must be great to decide who should live and who should die, especially when the majority are innocent men, women, children and babies, and they are NOT your people anyway. I suppose that you would be OK if your house was bombed, and your wife and children slaughtered whilst someone was looking for you. You seem to be a pull up the ladder Jack, I'm OK, to me.

How about the fact that she was born in Bangkok, Thailand on 12 March 1968? Her Father was a US citizen and her Mother was Thai, so she probably has dual nationality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth She was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and served with the US Army and after a medical waiver, she served in the Illinois National Guard. In 2004 she lost both legs and partial use of her right arm when her Blackhawk helicopter was hit during the Iraq war. She is NOT just a Senator but a retired lieutenant colonel military war hero with the decorations to prove it. She served voluntarily, even as a double amputee, and didn't seek deferment because of bone spurs.

And how would you know that?

And YOU know that this is correct. Do you have anything to back up your words?

A lot depends on which Immigration office you use. Although in theory all offices are the same, some offices may ask for extra of different information. The local office at Kamphaeng Phet Immigration requires 2 copies of each document, 1 for themselves and 1 for the regional office in Chiang Mai. Some larger offices may only require 1 copy, hence my query on the first line. I have a copy (in English) of the one that I use at Kamphaeng Phet Immigration office. It is a Thai copy translated into English by a Thai/English law firm, BUT I am having a problem with MS office, so I opened it in MS, closed it again and reopened it again in Libre Office Calc. My best advice for you is to visit your local office, ask them if they have a list of requirements for the marriage extension in English or Thai. You should be able to get a Thai version and then find an Thai/English law firm near you (on the internet) and ask if they can translate it for you. I think that mine cost me about 500 baht but that was a while ago. If you still want a copy of mine I will post it. I do my extension on monthly income, but Bangkok Bank can do 6 months on the spot or 12 months though you have to allow 3 working days, 200 baht for each set of statements and the letter. I normally order 3 copies, 1 for KPP, 1 for CM and 1 for me, KPP prefer the statement and the bankbook updated on the day of the extension application, but other offices may be different. I normally start my paper work about a month before I apply for the extension. Good luck

You may not have noticed but the Labour party of today, actually IS the Labour Party in its latest transformation. Cloth caps, whippets and clogs are out of fashion now. Tea and sandwiches are no longer in favour at 10 Downing Street. more like fine wines and haute cuisine nowadays.

And if the tourists can afford to pay, the make the fines more expensive and include jail time as well.

Neither is particularly cheap, but the Gripen is more expensive to buy. New aircraft today cost around $70 million Having been in production for so long, F-16 prices have, of course, changed a lot over the years. According to analysis from Executive Flyers, the early F-16A and F-16B variants (single and dual seat, respectively) sold in the early 1980s for around $13 million. The later improved F-16C and F-16D variants sold for just under $20 million. Coming to more recent variants, the F-16E and F-16F have a starting price of around $25 to $30 million, but improvements and equipment can take this up to $60 to $70 million. The Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet costs around $85 million. Explanation The Gripen E is the latest variant of the Gripen fighter jet. The Gripen E is more expensive than previous variants. The Gripen is a non-stealth fourth-generation fighter jet. The Gripen is popular with smaller countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Thailand. The Gripen was originally designed to protect Sweden from Russia during the Cold War. Where the Gripen gains over the F16 is the flying costs per hour. The Gripen fighter jet costs around $4,500–$9,922 per flight hour, depending on the model and inflation. This is cheaper than other Western jets, such as the F-16 and F-35. The cost of flying an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet per hour is around $22,000 to $26,927. This cost includes more than just fuel.

I agree with you 100%. Finance has never been interesting to me and certainly not at that level. I have enough problems just balancing my bank accounts, let alone trying to balance the national accounts. What I can understand is that it is not truly possible to fund any nation on external borrowing as at sometime it has to be paid back with interest, and if you borrow more to repay the loan then the loan costs more each time. Eventually nobody will lend the country ANY more money unless they are allowed to take over the country's finances, THEN the country is in real trouble and become heavily taxed all around, and sometimes the government will collapse. The last time that happened in the UK was in 1976 under a Tory government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund "The 1976 Debt Crisis Anthony Barber, a member of the conservative party in Britain, created a budget in 1972 in an attempt to have his party seize power in the 1974 election. This budget lead to a period of growth followed by a time that would result in high levels of inflation, almost 25%, for the pound. In 1976 investors later became wary of the value of sterling causing the value of the pound to become very low against the US dollar." IMHO I can see this happening again. perhaps in 2025 or 2026, but this time I feel that the current Labour government will collapse.