whitfield

Please note that this only applies to foreign earnings brought into Thailand. It doesn't include capital transfers. So if you need money here sell some investments and bring in the proceeds. Buy back the investments with your earnings.

Oh Officer what do I have to do so you won't charge me?

Medical certificate for sale 500 baht, one off payment for life. Time to think again. Either it's legal or it isn't.

Talk about coal to Newcastle.

Darwin was correct.

Try cleaning up the air. That does far more damage to tourism than the value of the baht. The air is filthy and there are loads of countries where the air is clean.

This is not news. It was a poorly kept secret from Day 1.

That's the point. He wasn't acquitted as promised. Drinking alone is the key, getting out of it makes you vulnerable.

Something similar happened to a friend of mine. He went to the toilet in a bar in Khao San Road, when he came out the bar was locked and he was accused of stealing a phone. He was wearing swim shorts and a tee shirt. There was no phone on him apart from his own. He was taken to the police station. We got him out in 100,000 baht bail. It was suggested that he pay 50,000 for the phone and the case would be dismissed. When he went to court the judge asked him what happened and he said he didn't know. The judge said that's not what you said in your confession, written in Thai by a Tourist Police officer, you're lying so 1 year in prison. We got him out on appeal and another 100,000 bail, and that night they closed the borders for Covid. Eventually he bought a sailing yacht in Phuket for $15,000 and sailed to the Maldives and freedom. An extraordinary story that could happen to anyone if you get stoned or drunk.

I'll be living off my mother's inheritance, meagre though it was, until I die. How can they possibly identify which money brought in is taxable. Time another spliff and a Leo.

Who cares?

She hasn't got a prayer, and her lawyers should have told her. If the Will is properly drawn up and witnessed it will stand.

The pollution at this time of year comes mostly from China, but soon it will be home grown with the burning season in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It's the same every year, but getting worse. The farmers need tractors to plough in the stubble instead of burning, but the government prefers submarines. For the cost of 3 Chinese submarines they could buy 30,000 tractors, 3 for every Tambon. They could rent them out and even get a small return. Instead of platitudes about working from home the government has the means to change it, and it's time they looked after their people instead of their egos.

I went to Immigration the other day and they asked why I only kept 400,000 in my account. I told them that we don't want to bring in more money than we need because they are going to tax us. The girl looked at ,e with eyebrows raised and said, "How?" She had no clue. If it ever did happen that Immigration needed to sign off a tax return or similar, you can bet your life that the only thing that would change would be the "Agent's Fee".

I think it's best summed up as the Thais didn't vote correctly last time so they will shortly have to try again, only this time the number of parties will be restricted.