23 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Really! I bet that Brazil does not have any of this nonsensical  reporting to anyone every 90 days.

Having lived both in Thailand and Brazil for 2 years-Brazil’s bureaucracy is Kafkaesque compared to Thailand. 

11 minutes ago, Onrai said:

Having lived both in Thailand and Brazil for 2 years-Brazil’s bureaucracy is Kafkaesque compared to Thailand. 

Can you please explain the word Kafkaesque?

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Can you please explain the word Kafkaesque?

As in "The trial". Where r u from?

Edited May 17, 20206 yr by Boomer6969

On 5/17/2020 at 8:06 AM, Boomer6969 said:

"quite well off" as far as I am concerned would involved incomes of 3 million THB yearly, so a flat tax on this threshold should be 300000 to make sense.

Thailand can get something or nothing.  If people can live elsewhere and not pay that much tax, they will.
 

On 5/17/2020 at 8:06 AM, Boomer6969 said:

Don't forget that Thailand will be, more and more, in the business of keeping the cheap Charlies out.

Why?  Why would they want to stop people earning multiple-times a Thai salary from spending their money here, simply because they are not rich?  It's not one or the other - they can still endeavor to bring in the rich. 

 

Only the tour-group tourism hurts the appeal of Thailand (overcrowding, buses, etc) - not so-called "Cheap Charlies" - aka "Normal non-rich folks from 1st world countries, who live on a budget."

 

On 5/17/2020 at 8:06 AM, Boomer6969 said:

Flat tax should be given as an option, the alternative being filing normal tax returns, under audit scrutiny of course.

How to audit foreign accounts?  Much easier to not tax foreign-incomes, and just reap the VAT from the spending, the income-tax from the businesses that profit from that spending and those that work for them (and their VAT spending), plus some reasonable visa-fees.

4 hours ago, JackThompson said:

How to audit foreign accounts? 

TIEAs

No need to (try to) why Thailand is still absent from this field. Corruption trickles down.

Edited May 18, 20206 yr by Boomer6969

On 5/16/2020 at 7:05 AM, Lacessit said:

This is misleading, because it takes no account of the thousands of Westerners living here with their Thai wives and GF's, contributing to the Thai economy.

But they are not tourists. The stat is for tourists. 

I think the best option one intelligent poster posted in another thread. 

Thailand should open up lots of gambling veneues in cities like Bangkok, Pattaya, Chinagmai, etc. Thais won't be  allowed in those veneues except thai workers. Invite Chinese. They are gamblers. Look at macao. How it has become the richest place in the World with mostly Chinese money. Invite American investors to open gambling casinos. WIthin a decade Thailand will be rivalling  S. Korea. That is the sure way to make Thailand rich.