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No doubt about that, that's why so many Greeks go there, If we had not gotten US visas our second choice was Australia or Canada
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1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:
As with many other places in Florida, a US state, throughout it's History, it has been trashed by the white man.
For example, Naples once was quite beautiful, and rather unique in that it was one of the quietest and most upscale villages on the Gulf coast of Florida.
You mean it was beautiful before the white man? I don't think there was a Naples before the white man,
IMO at least as far as Nables is concerned, The white man giveth and the white man taketh away,
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21 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:
PDA?Personal digital assistant?
PDF (a typo) , all the tax recipricity agreements I have seen are in PDF format, obviously I did not mean that I read the US on on a personal assistant.
PS: I have a degree in Aeronautical engineering, I know how to read a document, and my way around Basic, Fortran and spreadsheets. shows you how old I am,
Also hold a full book at the international brotherhood of Carpenters, Local 212 , but I am more of a bucher than a carpenter, since I got this because the company I worked for specialising in concrete forms was a union shop and it was nessacery for my to belong to the union that managed concrete forms.
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25 minutes ago, Drumbuie said:
And you don't know how to spell English, let alone the finer points of constitutional politics.
then there is this.
Right or wrong I formed an opinion and stated the reasons why I formed such opinion,
all tour side has done is counter that opinio with unsupported opinion and personal attacks.
Not unlike what Chicken Don does . No wonder there is such attraction between the two of you
You know what Bucko we all have an opinion, but opinions unless you are willing to support them with argument are like that proverbial bodily orifice we all have.
. Personally I think he is playing you and in private he is laughing at you.
He is communicating with you, and like a savvy conmen he uses the language you understand.
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26 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:We now have about 63 sets to deal with!
individually people only have 3, but as a group it is 63 that along with the different allowances, different marital statuses different sources of income, different levels of income etc all mean that it is rather difficult, to say the least, that this is true for everyone.
Perhaps for someone as intelligent as you it is all clear but unfortunately, for the unwashed masses of the rest of us it is clear a mud.
It seems to me that you keep saying that it is our fault for not understanding what The Tais have already put out there.
But You seem to contradict yourself yourself with the above statement that seems to suggest that the regulations are not clear for everyone,
I know what my DTA says, I can read, but I don't know for sure , how the Thais will interpret those, I am sure this is true for other nationals also. I have yet to seen anywhere anything pertaining to specific DTAs from the Thais.
How hard would it be to provide their interpretation for at least the main main groups of expats living in Thailand if not for all of them ?
But even if not , post a statement that all reciprocal tax agreements will be respected as stated in their Country's PDA . that way they dont have to do anything, because we all know how expensive labor is in thailand and to have someone sit down an compile such a list and then have someone else review it could cost hundreds of bahts
( I am being facetious)
Not go ahead and file, or ,not file. And we will see if you are right.
What kind of banana republic attitude is this?
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3 minutes ago, thesetat2013 said:Give me a break. You do not know what you are talking about. Democrats do the same thing when they take over presidency from a republican. How can you be so biased that you do not even know this and only want to use any excuse to strike out against the party YOU oppose.
Give me a brake you do not know what youre talking about
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Unlike most countries that derive their national integrity from a shared ethnicity the US who consists from Immigrant population and hyphenated Americans (Greek Americans , German Americans Korean Americans etc) derives a big part of it's cohesion by a shared trust in out institutions.
trump in an attempt to replace there institutions with himself , which is the first thing all dictators do.
The Supreme Court was our last universally trusted institution, that we all felt it to be the gape keeper to all these other institutions we had doubts about.
He has stacked the Supreme Court with people more loyal to him than to the constitution . an IMO existential danger to the idea that is America.
When "America"no longer exists , the geographical area between Canada and mexico will still exist, people will still live there, and they will still govern themselves by some sort of system
But it will not be America.
These Maga people with their hats, and their flags and supposed patriotism are destroying America!
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8 hours ago, stat said:
For US guys it might be different as it seems their pension will not be taxed by TH.
Its now 7 months into the tax year and still we use terms like "seems" , maybe, perhaps. TIT
Though I love it here, and my life here is settled with our own home , gardens , cars and such, I am kind of hoping that my pensions in the US will be taxed, because I like it better in Greece and knowing how my Thai wife is with money, would finally convince her to agree and move there, especially now that my sister is moving there , with whom my wife is very good friends.
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9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:
Had a house in Naples.
Used to row from near Tin City, where I launched the Alden single-shell, then south and out through the channel to the Gulf, and then up past Port Royal, and then past and through Naples Pier, and then further north to around 7th Ave North, where I carried/portaged the shell to a waiting motorized vehicle. That is a very long row, believe me, when done in the hot sun, starting at NOON.
That was in 1990.
Naples was still livable then....
But NOT now, for sure.
Naples, comparatively, these days is a dump.
A shame...really.
Don't know much about Naples. Though I have traveled extensively through FL . for some strange reason I never ended up in Naples . I was up in Sanibel island dot too far from there though but I understand that though nice, it's not the same vibe. Most of my travels in FL were uo and down the I-95 corridor, and east to west on the I-4.
No rowing for me, sounds like a lot of work, but I loved going cannoning up and down the intercostal with my daughter and friends.
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5 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:
“… I am embraced… “
We all need a hug sometimes
I seem to be doing it fine all by myself. LOL
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15 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:
The regular tax officers do not need to know anything about the individual DTAs
THAT is the beauty and terror of the Thai tax system! The individual tax payers have to decide, and remember and keep records, of what is assessable income and what is not, if they need to file a tax return or not.
So if Jo Bloggs decides that the income he is receiving from his stable of personal gratification ladies is covered by the Shireland DTA (approximately 200,000,000 baht equivalent) he does not mention it in his tax form, but he does declare the much smaller, in this case 2,000,000 baht equivalent commission he receives from his freelance lady delivery chauffeurs
he has allowances totalling 350,000 so starts paying tax from 500,000 to 2,000,000
it is only if, or when he is audited that he has to justify not paying tax on his total 202,000,000 income
This is where the systems are totally different
the immigration officers apply the rules
the TRD accepts your interpretation of the rules, until or unless they decide to audit you. Then YOU have to justify your interpretation and they may accept you have correctly decided your assessable income is 2,000,000 and your tax payment is correct or that the work of your personal gratification ladies is not covered by the Shireland DTA so you now owe 70,000,000 tax and possibly penalties as well. Then you can try to justify your reading of the Shireland DTA
TLDR any arguments or concerns may happen as late as 2034 when the audit clock runs out.
Thank you for that comprehensive explanation, I am learning a lot from these conversations.
In Thailand they have a 10 year statute of limitations to audits? so I guess you have to keep 11 years of tax records.
In the US they usually go back 3 years but if they find any discrepancies they can go back an additional 3 years , that's why we are advised to keep seven years of records.
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8 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:
Just as I thought. I would guess that you are from Naples, Florida.
You freaked me out there for a minute until I realise that FL was mentioned in my profile
Close but no cigar. Daytona Beach,
Where are you from? and please don't say California.
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13 minutes ago, Will B Good said:
Thought Eric Trump said half his ear had been blown away......remarkable recovery....oh wait....might he have lied?
I can not believe that you would sink so low as to insinuate that any of the trumps would lie.
I suggest you say 10 hail Marys . wash your mouth with soap,
and not that Irish Spring soap crap either, use real lye soap young man, and then go to your room and think of what you've done!!
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47 minutes ago, frank83628 said:i also watched the fox clip, they cut to a break right at the time where he mentions the voter ID, i found that a little bit odd to be honest, coming from fox, coincidence..humm debatable, but certainly missed the key words.
here is the actual live version at 1:00:00 is where he mentions voting and using ID, and then after is where its clipped and used as misinformation.... it's pretty obvious to anyone that isn't suffering with a certain D.syndrome
Ok you got me!
you got me to inflict upon myself the indignity of having to endure Chicken Don's whining voice for several minutes.
Because I like to be fair, I started at 1:00:00 as you suggested ,and nowhere from that to the end of this horrible speech did he mentioned "Christians" so that his voter ID BS would be providing the context.
Did he mention voter IDs ? he sure did, among many other things that he also mentioned , then by your logic all this other things would be equally contextual to the "Christian" comment also.
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4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:
Even I as an American can see that my error is one of logic and not really an error in grammar.
I am impressed that you noticed this error which I don't consider to be too glaring.
But then, as I just stated, you are probably from the UK, and at schools in the UK many of the teachers teach English, unlike most of the teachers in North America.
I am enjoying this new Quiz Game on TV, already!
Not From the UK , and in view of the results of the giant IQ test trump's candidacy has giving us I am embraced to say that I am also American .
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26 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:
If you are from the UK, then I must defer to your better judgment on this finer point.
The reason I do is that I am an American, and we all know about the Americans.
Why does the average writer living in the UK write better than the average writer residing in North America?
Are you able to answer this question, too?
What does that have to do with what I said concerning multiple choice test probabilities?
and where did you find that statistic? I did a search and could not find such statistic.
PS: sorry , I read your previous which I had missed and now i see the relevance of this post.
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17 minutes ago, susanlea said:
From a different day
Is this also an old picture laughing boy.
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Not sure where Mangabaga is , but I sure would love to live there.
Though I can see some problems with my family in the US who when they ask me where I live , i tell them I live in Mangabaga, at which point they will surely ask me how much I had to drink and start arranging an intervention. .
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"Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows "
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-photo-without-ear-bandage-raises-eyebrows-1931403
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3 minutes ago, BobBKK said:
He won't be there after four years - vote for him this last time. You are just immersed in confirmation bias.
Are you changing the subject now?
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4 minutes ago, BobBKK said:
You missed the salient point—he was taken completely out of context, and manipulating speech like that is an abuse of journalistic license.
No my friend , you completely missed the point about :dog whistles"
But even your contention that "it was taken out of context" does not sound correct . So I went to Fox entertainment news, thinking that every other news outlet was biased. and here is what Chicken Don said himself at a fox interview after the event
"Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday repeatedly prodded former President Trump over his comments at a conservative Christian summit, where he told attendees they won’t have to vote anymore after November.
Trump did little to push back on the backlash over his remarks, as some Democrats have suggested the former president was saying there would be no more elections if he won. Instead, Trump repeatedly argued his comments were because Christians do not vote in large numbers, and he offhandedly questioned Jewish voters who support Democrats."
Nowhere did he say anything that he was taken out of context. Not sure how you came up with it.
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6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:
OK, Sir.
I will do my very best.
But, I must tell you that there are actually TWO ways to score very well on any multiple choice test.
method a: Score 100-percent by choosing answers that are 100-percent correct.
method b; Score 100-percent by choosing answers that are 100-percent incorrect.
Either way, due to probability theory, method A and method B will NOT be so easy.
Note easy.
Though both of your methods are correct and you will be scoring 100%
Method B will be going against your phrase
"TWO ways to score very well on any multiple choice test. " with the operative word being "well"
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4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:
And, speaking of preparation, do you think the graders of these quizzes will penalize test-takers for guessing wrong answers?
This happens on some multiple-choice tests, but not on others.
No! but at the end of the year all the points will be calculated and the three highest finalists will receive a set of Asean Now commemorative plates, to be displayed with pride at your place of residence.
It is an awesome responsibility and honor, so apply yourself diligently.
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3 hours ago, luckymitchell said:
watch the FULL version you will see what was actually said. You have used a link that is using words taken out of context.
Like I am going to sit there and listen to an hour of Chicken Don word salad.
Do you understand what a "dog whistle" in propaganda is?
Not all of us are a "simple" as Chicken Don followers.
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Thailand to tax residents’ foreign income irrespective of remittance
in Thailand News
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It's crazy that we are seven months into this and still are not sure what we will pay.
But from experience how other countries have approached this I am certain that it will not be up to 35% because many will simply leave and others won't come, which would defeat the revenue expansion purpose of these tax schemes.
Greece as an example because this is something I have looked into,
For instance , to induce foreign retirement in Greece . those foreigners retiring there will only pay 7% tax, Digital nomads, ge a 50% tax rebate if the stay there for two years.
out of curiosity I googled Portugal and retirees there pay only 10% in Cambodia and Vietnam Non-residents are taxed at a flat rate of 20%,
Malta 15% Cyprus 5% on amounts in excess of EUR 3,420 (the first EUR 3,420 is exempt).
The point being that if Thailand wants to be competitive in attracting and maintaining foreigners and retirees, it would also have to be competitive with it's tax rates.