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How Has Thailand’s New Income Tax Law Affected Your Spending Habits?
There's a pinned document in the finance section called introduction to Thai income tax, perhaps someone will kindly link for this member. -
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Day-to-day life in Myanmar
Thanks BurmaBill, Norfolkandchance. To be honest, I was more annoyed than anything else, because I like custard cremes. And yes - I brought along medicine just in case, so are feeling weak but better now. Now I am in the small town of Nyaung Shwe, which nestles at the north end of Inle Lake, and is where tourists set off for boat trips on the lake. I was last here visiting orphanages 6 years ago, and how it has changed, thanks to Covid and then the military coup. Absolutely no foreign tourists of course. There are local tourists, but my driver tells me that they all stay in nearby Taunggyi, and then make day trips to Nyaung Shwe. So the town economy has collapsed 😞 No large hotels are open, no 'western' food restaurants, no tourist shops etc. The mobile internet is stopped by the military and there are only a few hours of electricity each day... My trip from Mandalay was not so good! As I mentioned, I got food poisoning the day before, so wasn't feeling on top of the world. My driver told me that the main route to Inle Lake had huge delays (4 hours), since every vehicle was x-rayed for weapons. So we took a smaller road over the mountains. This was a 6-hour 'switchback' journey on a small and very bumpy road. Every few km we had to stop for police or military checkpoints. As we approached Kalaw, the military presence was much tougher, and the soldiers were surprised to see a foreigner. At 2 checkpoints, they did not want to let me proceed. But my driver told them that I was an important foreigner, and the soldier didn't want the responsibility of stopping me! So we proceeded. Right now, I'm at a zero-star hotel in Nyaung Shwe. (I won't show you photos of the bathroom because maybe you've just eaten your lunch!). Since there are no minimarts open or western food restaurants, I bought some banana, fried chicken and fresh bread, which will keep me in the land of the living tonight. Tomorrow I'll start my orphanage and monastery school visits/donations 🙂 I chatted with the banana seller, who spoke good English. My Burmese language ability is what language experts call 'pretty crxp'. It's at conversational level for both spoken and reading the language, which no doubt is still much better than most westerners! She told me that I was the first foreigner that she had seen in weeks... -
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Thai Baht Expected to Slide to 35.50 per Dollar by 2025
So you have never paid for anything in Cambodia with USD? -
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Who lives on 20k a month ?
Ditto got scammed by our first taxi, first time in the country that tried to change the price mid trip (we had him drop us off at the side of the street and we got a Grab). Thanks for the tip, maybe I need to give Vietnam a second chance. I would be happy in Thailand but for example just a little while ago the neighbor burned all the leaves in this empty forest plot and it stinks like smoldering ashes and probably will all night. Then they keep burning until the whole region is engulfed in smoke and everything is ruined for us. Maybe I'll try Da Nang when it gets bad enough. -
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Thai Baht Expected to Slide to 35.50 per Dollar by 2025
It was because I don't consider myself a currency trading expert, neither am a crybaby which goes lamenting when they get a few satang less for their USD. Which one fits your profile? -
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Foreign Tourist Swallows Traffic Ticket in Odd Pattaya Incident
No you don't. I see only tourists pulled over. Though agree that skin colour likely did not play a part. Just an obvious tourist with no helmet and no shirt. -
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Introduction to Personal Income Tax in Thailand
Honestly I don't know of even one retired expat who filed Thai taxes referring to international transfers up till now. WHY? Because of the famous loophole wide as the Holland Tunnel about money from previous years always being exempt. So transfers of things like pensions was really OFF THE RADAR of both expats and I think TR as well. But that rule has changed. So while I get what you're saying, I don't think it's really relevant to the CURRENT situation.
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