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But now they are examining cc tv to try and find the lady boy…..after allowing her to escape 😂😂

Evidently you don’t know irony

In some kind of alternative reality, I guess what you say makes sense. But in actual reality, guns breed gun crime, gun deaths both accidental and deliberate and proliferate yet more guns. It’s a downward spiral ending in chaos. Just examine other countries, those that have very strict gun controls and those that do not. The results are self evident.

I think a number of Thai banks offer FCY fixed deposit accounts. I don’t know about current or savings accounts. But the tricky bit is remitting said FCY out of the country. I think that may be pretty difficult and even if possible, require a lot of paperwork. Not sure what your circumstances are but I think the important thing is to not bring FCY into the country in the first place. DBS in Singapore has an account called “my account” which can be opened in 15 different currencies (not Thai baht) and a debit card can be linked to any of them. Not sure if that is any good to you.

What you say is true. Pre 2024 was nirvana for basically everyone because the tax on income remitted in the year it was earned, was never enforced anyway. But I think the proposed situation, if it ever comes into being, is at least better than the current one. At the moment overseas income is taxed when brought into the country, whatever the year it was earned.

Unbeknownst to me, when my child was 4/5 her teacher used to hit the kids toes with a ruler if the didn’t lie down and be quiet for their afternoon sleep. I only found out when my daughter was 14 and recounted how it used to terrify her when she was at that school. The teacher was a young late twenties, good looking and very friendly person. Had I known what she was doing my daughter would have been out from that school the next day and never gone back. It clearly traumatized her as she remembered it 10 years later as a very bad experience from her childhood. A friend of mine tells me that the teacher in question now seeks coffee from a coffee stall. What the career change happened I don’t know, but I could hazard a guess.

A friend of mine had to dump a girlfriend. He worked on oil rigs. Every time he went on a contract, when he got back, something had been “stolen”. Motorbike, jewelry, gold.

Almost certainly gambled

Not sure I follow you tbh. If your pension or salary from back home is immediately remitted to Thailand, it would be tax free. If you did that now, it would be taxed. How is that not a win. Of course, if you don’t bring all your salary or pension into Thailand in the year it’s received, it would be taxed. Just as it would be now. So no loss there. Quite a bit to celebrate I think.

There is also the small matter of it being defamatory, even if true. That to me is repressive or abusive defamation aspect of the law

Quite possibly. On the other hand, I can see these certificates being printed off and handed out by the cannabis shops themselves. Just to keep up appearances. Who’s going to check? BIB? Maybe once in a while they will do a crackdown and some poor unfortunate will get fined. But rigorously apply a system of regulation? Haven’t seen it happen in respect of anything else and can’t see it happening with this. i’m agog waiting to see if it actually happens 😂

We all pay tax. Buy a beer? It’s taxed. Buy a car? It’s taxed. The list of items subject to VAT is endless. But, at least consumption tax is directly linked to what you use/buy

And if you keep it outside Thailand, under current rules, it will remain untaxed. Legally so and nothing to do with tax evasion as you point out.

Don’t think a bunch of expats have moved the needle much, ultra wealthy Thais are who have caused a rethink. wouldn’t put it past a number of them making it known that unless and until more favorable tax treatment is available, they ain’t bringing a cent back into Thailand.

Yes. In fact they make it explicitly clear that the intention of the change is to force repatriation of income to Thailand asap. Delay a year and it’s taxed.