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Thank you for this interesting report. I have some questions if you don't mind. Did the Kalasin tax office call you or write to ask you to go to their office and did they specify what documents you should bring? Do the documents you printed from Barclays UK show the name of the beneficiary of the transfers and the reason for them? Who, at another meeting, required the tax official urgently to take your documents? Did you submit your bank documents only for the calendar year 2024 or for "all those years" since you arrived in Thailand? What is the status of your permission to stay, eg one-year extension for marriage, employment, retirement, etc? It will be interesting to see how this new tax collection drive from expats develops.

Good-bye ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation) Hello TDAC (Thai Digital Arrival Card), including the collection of the the tourist tax from travellers who fall into one of the — yet to be defined and announced — categories subject to this tax. Excerpt from the news article TDAC system will replace TM.6 paper form, reducing immigration processing times and improving efficiency in The Nation (highlighting in bold is mine): There we have it, an elegant solution to collect the tourist tax. No details of the process are available yet, but I think it will be akin to the eVisa application. Digital arrival card is a misnomer, it is really a travel authorisation. Fill out and submit the online form a specified minimum number of days before departure. If applicable, pay the tourist tax online as the final step of the online submission of the form. Get the TDAC, with a QR code or whatever, by email and print it out. Present the TDAC at check-in. No TDAC, no boarding pass, simple as that. This requirement will have to be included in the IATA rules. On arrival in Thailand, hand over the passport, TDAC and eVisa, if applicable, to the immigration official. All we can do now is hold our breath and wait to see how this will play out.

Burma, latterly called Myanmar. It is fashionable to change the names of countries and cities. Back to the future. Cambodia —> Kampuchea Turkey —> Tūrkiye Bombay —> Mumbai etc, etc.

Not all money may have literally changed hands, but I should think that a large sum of money must have changed from the bank account of the man to whom you refer as a "fat old bald guy" to his Thai friend to pay for the land and the construction of the house.

A foreign man who is the widow of a wealthy Thai woman in not the opposite of a Thai unmarried cohabitant of a wealthy foreign man.

Not to mention, did she declare the income of that large donation to the Thai tax authorities?

What in the news article makes it sound to you like this?

I fear that boosting the economy will increase air pollution even more.

What does hormone treatment have to do with marriage equality?

You can't display the video, but you can post the link to it.

A web search tells me that Finland, the latest NATO member, is covered by NATO, but do the other European NATO members agree? https://www.euronews.co m/my-europe/2025/01/23/greenland-is-covered-by-collective-security-of-nato-says-finnish-foreign-minister

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland All of a sudden, fter reading some of the posts in this topic, I am unsure whether Greenland is covered by the NATO umbrella. Does anyone know for sure?

The European NATO members must urgently and rapidly increase their defence capabilities so that they will be able to defend Greenland against occupation and annexation by the USA or Russia. For all we know, once there is a peace treaty in Ukraine, Trump may join forces with his friend Putin to occupy Greenland and share the spoils.

Yes, it would be interesting to see statistics about the number of people on one-year extensions, preferably broken down by category. I wonder if immigration makes them.

On the contrary. Tourist numbers keep increasing. Even the murderously high PM2.5 pollution levels doesn't discourage them.

I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate, please?

I need help. I cannot find the AirBKK application in the Google Play Store. Currently, I have IQAir, เช็คฝุ่น (translation: check dust) and Air4Thai installed on my Android phone.

And what's the wealth tax situation down under?

I wonder how many women will come forward to watch the video clips to see if they are shown in any of them. "Here, officer, this is my vulva. I'm sure. I can prove it" Creepy.

This is the founding principle of the tax on assets in countries that have this tax: If you have gainful employment, you pay tax on this income. When you spend part or all of your income, you pay Value Added Tax (VAT) If you do not spend all your income and put some money in a savings account, you pay income tax on earned interest. If you invest some of your income in divided-paying stocks, you pay income tax on the dividends. If you have a house built with some of your savings, you VAT on the materials and the services rendered by the construction company as per point 2 above. Lastly, if you have been foolish enough not to squander all your income hand over fist as you earned it, you get punished with a tax on assets. That's what it is; the tax on assets is a punitive tax. As the US statesman Benjamin Franklin said: "nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"

For what destination and what date is your flight booked?

LL? Sorry I don't understand.

I didn't know that Aseannow has a built-in spelling checker. How does one enable it?

What does the German tax office have to do do with the taxation of Australian pension payments in Thailand?