jayboy

No it couldn't - ridiculous suggestion.In any event the Oxford Union is a private members club and is not part of the university.Furthermore every shade of opinion has been expressed there for over 200 years and this has never been sanctioned, even when members declared before the Second World War they would not fight for King and Country.Many of those who took that position shortly therafter died in the air and on the battlegrounds and beaches.

Perhaps you didn't notice the writer is a Labour MP.

When people say it's pretty common knowledge, invariably as in this case what follows is inaccurate.Rich Thais do pay taxes but as with rich people everywhere are smart enough to minimize their payment, or more to the point hire accountants who are smart enough to minimize payment.By the way for legally employed Thais, it's quite hard to wriggle out of PAYE.

I don't vehemently disagree because I can see your logic but I think you are wrong, and it is not in my view a "massive folly" to acquire a TIN. I have a TIN and as matters stand will not be submitting a tax return for 2024 because i will have not remitted any assessable income in 2024.But more to the point I do not think it likely, even remotely likely, that the TRD will be checking whether non working foreigners with a TIN have submitted returns.

Is it nitpicking to distinguish between a biological woman and a bloke in a frock?

It's a fair point.Possibly because Thais including transgender Thais tend to be delicately built and usually not hirsute, backed up by graceful good manners in most cases.Not always the case elsewhere where a cross dressing man can sometimes be mistaken for Fred Flintstone in drag.

Not quite.Being a woman means being a person who has XX chromosomes and reproductive organs that make bearing children possible.However not every woman is able to bear children.

Oh dear

I used to worry about being debanked too but mainly in the context of international cooperation on tax transparency. But I don't understand the concern about international transfers (assuming one is not cheating the UK government on the state pension.) There are many very reputable banks, mainly Channel Islands based, which exist to service expatriates and have no problems in regular transfers overseas.

Or the Thai way as well.

Depends where you live.In posh suburbs and fashionable parts of the big cities very likely.In many other areas far from acceptable.

And never was - like the rest of the independent sector. Stupidity is one thing.Ignorance is another Envious spite is yet another.But the Labour government and its gullible acolytes have managed to combine the three, to devastating effect. This is a minor issue in the overall scheme of things but it is also very revealing.

If you mean this school is for profit, you are misinformed.It's not.

Not one of the top 100 independent schools in the UK is for-profit.They have no shareholders and any surplus is reinvested.Actually there is usually never more than a modes surplus if any.Schools like Eton and Winchester are well endowed from centuries back but the others have to rely on appeals.

It's never been taxed anywhere in the world - pure spite on the part of the Labour government who hate the middle class.