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On 12/9/2024 at 3:36 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

I assume all those asylum seekers in UK can now return home?

Some of them might though from what I have read on the BBC News 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y795q52x5o

the current asylum claims are on hold. 

There is also the possibility that new Syrian asylum seekers from Assad's regime may also want to stay in the UK as Syria may not be safe for them.

I am due a 90 day report on 14 January, so I will order the statements on that day. I should pick them up around the 21st, and aim for the tax office around 28th January, giving me about a week to annotate and scan the statements, so it will probably be done in about 5 weeks time.

From a conversation with Mike Lister when this thing started, I don't think at 80, given the tax allowances that I am entitled to, that I will have to pay any tax in Thailand, and if that is the case I am not sure if I will actually be given a TIN, at least for 2024 though I do have a "pink" Thai ID card.

I have put a reminder on my pc calendar.

5 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

Pure speculation.

The tourist was seen standing near the balcony, appearing dazed and The tourist was seen standing near the balcony, appearing dazed and attempting to climb over the railing in what seemed to be a suicide attempt.in what seemed to be a suicide attempt.

And what other reason can you come up with for a person to be near the balcony, appearing dazed and attempting to climb over the railing in what seemed to be a suicide attempt.

Please expand on your conclusion of "Pure speculation".

On 12/14/2024 at 7:38 AM, quake said:

 

Yes very hard indeed, had 3 attempts, got it on the 4,  27 years now. ( was a 40 a day Marlboro habit )

 

I quit successfully 5 times in all, the last in 1970 and I haven't smoked since then. I was in Singapore and had access to duty free cigarettes. That was where I started again for the 5th time as I was bored with not smoking. I quit after about a year and gave the rest of my cigarettes and the duty free coupons to a mate.

2 hours ago, fondue zoo said:

If it's urgent use Remitly, slightly more expensive, but delivers every time, any day, within an hour.

I like Wise but they blame the bank and then Remitly sends the same amount almost immediately 5 minutes later.

 

 

Does it automatically show up in the bankbook and on the bank statement as an international transfer?

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

The 'dedicated' Bangkok Banks on the street are CLOSED on Saturdays & Sundays, well, here in Phitsanulok. 

The only 'Mall' branch is now the one at Central as they closed the Big C one. I don't know if that is open at weekends.

The BKK bank at BigC in Kamphaeng Phet was closed down a couple of years ago.

1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Wow,

 

My tax office and bank are nearby each other and 2 km from my house

That us both the advantage a d disadvantage of living in a rural community.

6 hours ago, willip said:

Just as we all knew.  If you have big money CORRUPTION.  Is the norm!!. No jail time for you and the family!!!!

But if you are a general and the leader of a military coup, and you steal the entire country in an act of treason, you will never be punished, and there is always the chance of promotion to the Privy Council,

1 hour ago, newnative said:

They are in shopping malls.

Sadly the one that I opened my account at in BigC at Kamphaeng Phet closed down. I assume due to a lack of customers (and perhaps a rental rise). They simply closed the shop down, shut the doors, and the accounts went back to the main branch.

9 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Your post makes sense and is the right way for a tax office to go about things.

 

I will be following your route in January.

 

I am not concerned in the slightest about owing them anything, but at least I will have followed the rules, no matter how ambiguous they are.

 

It stops any silly assessment of tax in the future, if your book work is in order at least, I imagine.

The only PITA for me is that both Bangkok Bank (which will take 2 trips, 1 tom order the 12 month statement and another to collect it at least 3 working days later) and the tax office, are 65km away.

I think I will need to make 3 trips as I will need to highlight in 3 different colours, my pensions as 2 are assessable and one is not.

It will make it easier for the tax office and for me as well as I can do the highlighting and then scan the statements onto my pc.

22 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

No

So why would I use KBank when the interbank transfer from Bangkok Bank is free and is already marked as an international transfer? It generally takes only a couple of minutes, start to finish, to make an interbank transfer.

3 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Yet you care enough to make a comment...................let it slide, he is entitled to his opinion.

Plus he is speaking from the experience of decades.

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

I'm utterly indifferent to the fates of these two, Thompson and Mangione. I am interested in abolishing health insurance, prohibiting health care from being anything other than a non-profit business, providing free, yes, free, care to citizens, and prohibiting all non-citizens from anything but pay as they go services.

Nothing is free.

Who do you think subsidises the research and development of new drugs, and who foots the bill when it turns out to be useless. You personally, the public, the tax payers or the drug companies?

Do you believe that all the people working for drug companies from the CEO down to the cleaners should work for nothing, so that YOU can have something for nothing.

If the National health service is free in the UK, why does it need a budget of £181.7 billion?

AI Overview

The National Health Service (NHS) in England's annual budget for 2022/23 was £181.7 billion. The majority of this spending, £171.8 billion, was on day-to-day items like medicines and staff salaries.

But the funding of the NHS comes from government funding, which means the taxpayers, so I repeat,

Nothing is free.

3 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

Thanks Bill, but there is nothing to get me to their customer service. Surely there must be some method on my laptop I can use to get rid of them.

Perhaps when the next message arrives, you could scroll to the bottom.

There ought to be an unsubscribe link somewhere in the message.

Alternative you may be able to install an ad blocker (free) to block that one source.

1 hour ago, NoshowJones said:

This is getting so bad now. Who the f--- are these McAfee b@stards?

Here is a Wikipedia link about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAfee

They are a US company started in 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAfee

This link should get you through to their Customer Service website.

After that you are on your own as only you know what your exact problem is.

From what I found, their contact numbers are only a phone number in the USA or a chatbot site.

6 hours ago, Straight8 said:

Thai cops, piss weak, a group of them can't take down 1 man.

 

They should take classes in how to wrestle.

You of course would have sorted it out in 30 seconds on your own.

It is amazing how smart and clever people can be behind the anonymity of their pc, instead of being in the thick of the action.

8 hours ago, Purdey said:

I think he's serious. Do these people understand what a laughingstock they make of Thailand with their pronouncements?

The sad thing is that HE thinks that he is being serious.

Of course, one way of preserving the Guardian is for the entire staff to exceed the bid price, buy the Guardian and run it themselves.

If they succeed then good for them.

If they fail and go bankrupt, tough. They can always ask their fellow journalists for financial help.

It is called, putting your money where your mouth is.

Don't just make it anti Semitism, but apply it to ALL religions and even to sects within each religion, In Christianity between Protestants and Catholics, in the Muslim religion, between Sunni and Shia and apply the same rule to ALL religions worldwide.

Alternatively ban ALL religions worldwide, as they are the most cause of all the wars since religion was invented thousands of years ago.