Negita43

A slight variation I use a debit card (UK) to pay for medical bills: 1. If I can prove the money was in the bank account before 01/24 will that be taxable? 2. Are medical bills tax deductible?

There is an old saying about never putting your eggs in one basket - keep them all till they expire.

So am I - your handle says it all - forums are for exchanging information not really for slagging people off (although many like you do).THE END

Thanks - no criticism of you - but that tells us a lot!

What Websites say and what happens in real life can be two entirely different things. Nothing like asking (politely) for the experiences of those that have actually done it

In my Macro (Korat - opposite Do Home) in the freezer cabinet with the Roti and spring roll frozen pastry

Can anyone tell me what the channel code SYSG means on a statement - better still anyone have a list of these codes and there meanings Some are obvious such as ATM but others a bit more difficult).

It seems that this forum has many members who's intellectually challenged Including the original poster - "members" is a plural form "is" (who's = who is) is singular verb

Without the 800K baht?

Same here - but why on the whim of a bureaucrat

Another underhand government tactic to keep tabs on you

I am a UK citizen, about 12 years ago I came to Thailand on a retirement visa which I obtained in the UK - as far as I recall that did not require the 800,000 Baht in a Thai bank account to obtain it (only when I extended it). But that was 12 years ago and things change. He has already tried to open a bank account in Thailand and been refused because he only had a tourist visa so he feels that he is in a catch 22 (no visa no bank account no bank account no visa). He has more tha sufficient funds to support himself here but what is his best route to get a retirement visa (he is over 50) - is i possible to get one in the USA without the 800,000 Baht and then come and open a bank account and then do a visa extensions subsequently over here?. Thanks

Good thoughts for your full recuperation - take care

He doesn't have to know - you have to prove

Actually my point is about choice not vaccination.

Yes but doesn't that depend on whether the remittance comes from income that year or assets accumulated before that year?

You'd defend a government's right to insist you get vaccinated (and who knows what else they might insist on)

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I would tend to agree with you also BUT would you rather live in a society where you can choose or one where you have no choice? That's the dichotomy of freedom of choice - if you can choose one way then you have to allow another to choose their way that's the price you have to pay for your freedom of choice.

Maybe I'm spoiling lots of posters fun BUT If you believe in vaccinations - have them. If you don't believe in vaccinations - don't have them. It's your choice just as it's another's option to choose what thay want.

At last a thread I can get my teeth into! But it is true dental treatment here (at Government hospitals at least) is good value compared to my country - that is if you can find a dentist to "take you".

pitch your tent in a Mall?

Well Gamma - my favourite quote from Friedrich Nietzsche is: “For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!” From, would you believe, "The Gay Science" - of course "Gay" had a whole different meaning when he wrote it. But you are certainly living dangerously with your philosophical post.

Cut out the middleman https://drivemag.com/news/gm-made-a-coal-powered-car-in-the-80s/

My experience as a former English/Business/IT teacher in Thailand is that the system is a triumph of superficiality over substance. Not all, but many students want the piece of paper saying "A" without having to do anything to get it and many of them do not see the use of learning English for example. It's all about that piece of paper not the knowledge.