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Now that makes sense. Bring taxation down to normal levels and you will have much less "tax planning" and outright cheaters to hunt after. 35% income tax is ridiculous compared to what the state offers those pristine tax payers in return; 20% corporate taxation is also more than border line. This will also do away with the planned (over-)taxation of non-Thais. There the mathematics are even simpler. A non-Thai has a pension of, say, THB 40'000/month. If the state takes away 15% (THB 6,000) it means, that this person spends only THB 34,000 and not THB 40,000 into the SME industry of Thailand (food, drinks, rent, entertainment, transport etc.) - in essence the state cuts into the earnings and profitability of the Thai SME. VAT depends on consumption; those consuming more = pay more money whereas the percentage is linear and not progressive. In addition, the VAT system is in place and works (mostly; the convenience stores of Somchai and Yodsak remain excluded but pay at least in-put VAT). If this goes through, then Thailand inched itself closer to the 21st century indeed! Carpe diem!

Let me guess, the fire insurance policy remains updated and paid ..........

What a cheap PR stint by all parties involved. If you are serious about it (and sofar nobody really ever cared) then push for law IMPLEMENTATION. Only stringent adherence with stiff fines, impounding of vehicles and possible free stays in jails will push the subject in the right direction. Not only drivers but car owners have to be held responsible for whatever happens with their vehicles. At the same time get the biggest available hoover out and clean up the police force. Sounds too futuristic? Yes, you're absolutely right. But it certainly serves for some free advertising of doing good. Staggering though to understand, how the British Embassy was gotten involved - a do-gooder with no clue of what happens on Thai roads maybe?

Why don't you get it from the horse's mouth and check with the immigration office which will handle your extension application in due course?

Do-gooders and tree huggers; just make sure you hug the right tree then 😉

As the country is ruled by a congregation of goons they never voted for in the first place ...............

What a joke, three months and 27 days too early - me thinks!

Well, here it is crystalized but in all fairness the procedure is a joke with ALL airlines. You book - they charge IMMEDIATELY. If you do not/cannot pay online (no credit card or online banking) then you're given a time slot of a few hours the most to pay for your online booking. Once it comes to a refund, the situation is completely different. I have NEVER received a refund as fast as I had to do a payment; some airlines took 60 - 90 days while two airlines never gave me the (marginal) dues back. Same with booking platforms of airline tickets; same delays there and they blame the airlines for the delay. Vote with your feet and hit the drums as loud and long as you can. Only like that the airlines might have a look at this absolutely unacceptable behaviour!

If they do it in batches of 72 people at a time then they will be finished towards the end of the next millennium - keep up the good work!

Well, one thing is for sure; money usually does not get lost ........... but ends up somewhere 😉 Just saying!

It is a saying but yes, lots of money got "disappeared" in this rice scheme. For starters some smarties managed to sell some inferiour quality rice - from Thailand and neighbouring countries - at THB 15,000/ton as Thai rice under the governmental rice scheme. Result is that the government later on tried to offload the meanwhile "less than pristine" rice to African countries and a Minister even claimed, that this inferiour rice will not be for the pickier Thai market. If you need some solid figures then I suggest to read up the details from ten years ago, when the whole bubble bursted. I like the "Leo brigade" - we used to call it the stone table warriors on Amarit back in the day - essentially though the same quality assessment.

It is like everything else in this country. The customer does not care, WHY something does not work. The choice of "supplier" is done by the airline and the customer is dealing with the airline. Latter has to take responsibility but, in true Thai fashion, blames a) a third party and b) is not responsible. Only once Thais understand, that irrespective of suppliers, weather, sunshine or black tires - the customer buys a seat to travel from A to B - as offered by the carrier and it remains with the latter to make it work ...... or refund the money. This airline will be paying it straight through its nose and will cost them an arm and a leg - the marketing department must be in overdrive - well done, you goons and clowns in-midst of the Thai aviation circus and keep up the good work.

Good luck he is Italian - aka "dirty farang" or "alien" - otherwise this would have never made the news. Catch him, book him - next please!

Most jobs are botched - not the worst though. The winner are those artificial eye brows tattooed in such a way, that you are not sure if the ink is dry already. Always out for looking "better" than they are born - welcome to Thailand

Just wondering, where all those billions and billions are stashed away. Do these crooks and gangsters know, that at the end of the day of their life, they cannot eat money?

Don't get me wrong but $126 billion is chicken feed. The US figure for "defense" of their borders (with Canada and Mexico, as far as I know) is $882 billion (eight hundred and eighty two billion USD = 882,000,000,000) but yes smaller countries (USA compared to Russia) need much more money to splurge around in all those conflicts all over the world - except defending their own border, for which a "defense" budget is normally applied. Too many loonies running this world and, certainly, Putin is one of 'em! Let's see, what 2025 brings once Trump moved back into the colourless house on 20 January next month!

In any other country of democratic structure it would be called a "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" but the official USA gave the pardoning a completely new and different angle.

As weird as it might sound; let it be. It is not your issue and whatever you do, you will not change anything. Worst case scenario is that some in-laws of the 27yrs old will hunt you down with all possible consequences. The girl is psychologically damaged goods already and there is absolutely nothing you could do to stop/reverse that. Follow the advice of your wife as she is - regretfully - absolutely right.

What the news desk might have forgotten; Anutin's "dirty farang" effusion draw the attention of 100% of the alien and sticks on his usually teflon-coated back to the day he's gone!

Well possible, thanks for the update. As far as the capitalization of companies are concerned, we usually borrowed the money from the "mother company" to the daughters so the latter could financially buy shares in the mother company. We physically flushed money from the mother to the individual daughters and - by purchasing the mother company's shares - the money flowed back to the mother company. Is absolutely legal and there is nothing the commerce goons can moan about it.

Keep up the good work and continue to rattle the cage. In no time your economy will free fall into the abyss and the losers at the end will be those who firmly believe that Thailand belongs to the Thais. Some Thais are just thaier than other Thais; the dinosaurs at it ensuring, that no foreign influence could enlighten the purposely poor if not non-educated electorate could shed some light of the 21st century into the 15th century den! Amend the laws to this century, like many other countries did, to the benefit of free market operation without having an absolute incompetent dinosaur government breathing down on each and everyone's neck!

The damage of the gate and the compensation for the damage is left best to the insurance. The owner can terminate a lease agreement within the stipulations of the agreement or according to prevailing Thai paragraphs in the law. My unimportant piece of advice is; go and get a new condominium. You can try to contact various real estate agents to help you in your search; the commissioning of the agency is the landlord's responsibility. The advantage of this is, that you can clearly stipulate, what you need (wheelchair accessibility, elevator etc. etc. - apart from the budget you have to spend). Good luck!

Glad you got the message; next time read before commenting 😉

I was wondering, how and when they would ensure that the maid will be denied her legal inheritance. Thailand at its best; if the official Thailand is like that, then they can "nationalize" tens if not hundreds of thousands of properties as the dinosaurs in the government have not understood yet, that this 49/51 key is total nonsense. Not a single person, anywhere on the planet, has been seen rolling up property, stashing it into a suitcase and fly off to faraway lands. If I pay for property I will ensure, that this property remains under my sole control. The beauty of the law is, that there is no difference between natural and juristic Thai persons. So, if you create three juristic persons as Limited Partnerships or Company Limited set-ups and ensure, that two of those are shareholding the third one, and do this across all three companies, you have created three 100% Thai-owned juristic persons. Sofar, no law prohibits a foreigner from being a non-resident single signatory director. This structure is what older companies of non-Thai origin use as legal framework. For this maid I feel truly sorry; maybe there are some people out there to offer her legal help; the potato is far too hot for the dinosaurs to push it completely through as it would put shockwaves through the entire property-owning non-Thai society and that would be playing with very hot and difficult to control fire. But - in closing - of course by co-incidence, some pig somewhere will snap up this inheritance for a fraction of a price at an auction which will run totally behind curtains and out of sight of the public.

It would help - seriously - if you would read the entire posting - I clearly mentioned that this is "totally unacceptable". If need arises, Google is your friend and helps you to translate it into whatever language you might understand better!