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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.

I have been segregating income from capital since the time the rules changed in 2024. All interest, dividends and bond coupons are automatically credited to a separate account and accumulate there. Any money sent to Thailand is taken from my original capital account. When overseas, I use up some of the money accumulated in the income account. should this new proposal become law, I’ll need to rejig things so that any income earned but not remitted to Thailand in the year it’s received, is segregated and not sent to Thailand. Simple enough to do.

I think some of the restaurants down at Nai Harn beach allow people to use their toilets for a small fee. But they created that fairly large parking area which houses a street market in high season, there should be a toilet there. There is a toilet block along the side of the reservoir which I think was donated by the rotary club. It’s not in particularly good condition now despite being relatively new. Same old problem always in Thailand, no on going maintenance

“It's clear that for Phuket to maintain its reputation as a premier tourist destination, “ Eh hem….

Any hardware store. In the old days they were used for cutting rice, but can be used for cutting back any vegetation. I dare say I have 2/3 lying around in my tool shed if I was to look. Perhaps not quite so useful when residing in a Samui hotel however.

In Scandinavian countries? Haven’t heard of it. A few other countries also, Holland and Belgium spring to mind. Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra. i get what you mean, it DOES happen in other countries, but not in all and not regularly.

Sorry, I still don’t get it. As far as I know this guy wasn’t brazen about his past at all. In fact he was living a seemingly normal life under an assumed name. In other words, hiding his past, not openly flaunting it. Even if you are right that he was brazenly flaunting his previous crimes, which I don’t believe he was, I still didn’t know him and also had no idea of his previous criminal past in the UK, nor is there any reason why I would have. I never met the man despite living in Phuket for 20 years and I certainly don’t remember U.K. newspaper stories from 25 years ago. The proof of my argument is in the pudding. Nobody exposed him for his previous crimes. So that is a fact.

You know, I think you are right. It was only 100, maybe 200, last time I got one. I guess I was postulating that some kind of “fee” will mean that a medical certificate for cannabis use will be ridiculously easy to obtain

He didn’t live “alongside” me. I’ve lived in Phuket for 20 years and never met the bloke. Then again, I never knew about his U.K. issues either. So even if I had met him in Phuket, I would not have connected the two. Do you know all your countrymen in the city where you live as well as have an encyclopedic memory for all child abuse cases in your own country? I doubt it very much.

“Panthep Puapongpan, dean of the College of Oriental Medicine at Rangsit University, expressed concerns about the reliance on modern medical practitioners, who may be reluctant to prescribe cannabis due to lack of confidence or perceived conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies.” I’m sure a 500 baht fee will resolve the issue of certificates, just as it does for driving licence medical certificates. No need to even see the doctor, the receptionist gave it to me from a pile of pre signed certificates.

“”In a bid to enhance safety for tourists, police and administrative officers conducted surprise inspections at several renowned nightclubs in Pattaya on 23rd May” “They carried out inspections at four venues, checking licences, employee records, and IDs of patrons.” Why did they check the ID of patrons if the objective was to make said patrons feel safe? I think I would be totally intimidated if a bunch of police showed up and started checking everybody. If the idea was to look for overstay, fair enough. But that isn’t what the article says they were looking for.