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Do you still see girls in bars which you would consider as girlfriend/wife?
Living on and off in Hua Hin the past five years I have noticed this year a big difference in the attractiveness of bar girls. Now old, fat or generally high mileage women. Not that I’m looking of course. -
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Wear a mask in the Cheang Wattana Immigration Building
A post making an unsourced and unsubstantiated claim has been removed. -
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Blatant abuse of entry denials at Phuket Airport
Removed off-topic posts and the replies to them. This old topic is now closed. -
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What was your job (profession) when you moved to Thailand
I am just curios what job you had prior coming to Thailand or still have? Did you have any high school education or Bachelor or Master degree? Mine is quite simple. I grew up in a small town in Germany (hence my writing) went to public school and tech school migrated to Australia (the best place on earth) worked for a company in Sydney and moved west. Started my own company sold it after about 25 years, moved to Thailand for a number of years and moved back to OZ after losing money in LOS. I know some posters don't live in Thailand but that is not important. I just like to hear your story good or bad. Thanks for listening. -
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Last Time Refused Entry Retry Monday
I've never heard of the pre-clearance for CNX. The agent that I know that offers it, only offers it for Bangkok and Phuket. -
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Forgot to cancel my non-b visa extension
When you obtained your work extension, you signed a document that said you would notify immigration if your situation changed. You stopped working, and you failed to notify immigration. This can prevent you both from getting a new long-term visa or long-term extension until it is cancelled. Likely that will involve paying a fine of 500 baht per day up to a maximum of 20,000 baht. You will need to find out how to cancel it with the immigration office. Even going past November won't make a difference, because you still failed to meet the terms you previously agreed to. You need to find out from immigration what they want to cancel your old extension, and then try to get that. -
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Must Read Its Happening - Law to Tax Overseas Income Now in Progress
I don't expect brokerage statements to be of much use under global taxation. It works under current year remittance as it gives a baseline on a specific start date to accept as 'savings' disregarding the capital gains that would be intermixed. TRD trying to use account statements and buy/sell order receipts to calculate income is unfeasible. If they go this route, a (certified?) copy of the home country tax return would be filed with the Thai tax return, with all income figures taken directly from that. -
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Thai gov. to tax (remitted) income from abroad for tax residents starting 2024 - Part II
Except that TRD has no interest in flagging large remittances from abroad. At this time. Which begs the question of how or why they would notice the 50K baht that Bob in the village remits every month. I am bringing up bargirls who receive big money to illustrate the lack of enforcement by TRD. The likely outcome for 2025 is that Bob in the village who never files will be unaffected. Who will impacted by the new tax regulations? Some Swedish guy who is snagged by the police for some financial crime will be audited, and his remittances traced for examination. -
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5 year multiple entry DTV visa (Destination Thailand) from 2024-xx-xx
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. They may issue a lot of these visas. Will they either a) stop issuing them b) reduce the 5-year validity to say 1 year c) make them harder to get d) make them more expensive e) have Immigration make entry difficult. I just can't see it going on for a long time. -
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Thai girlfriend working in a bar
Bargirls who are "drinks only" typically have a Farang boyfriend who sits in the bar, nursing one drink during her entire shift. -
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Thai gov. to tax (remitted) income from abroad for tax residents starting 2024 - Part II
Would that be money remitted from a BG's foreign account? Even here, there's a chance it's not income -- if not declared as such, how is TRD going to know, unless they interview everyone that receives money from abroad (which would be absurd, as not cost effective) If BG gets the money from someone else's foreign account, here it's certainly not prima facie income declarable by her -- unless it's a payment for a current service being rendered, like cutting sender's grass while sender is in the States. Anyway, the recipient of wired money from someone's foreign account, if for some reason called into TRD for a chat, could just say the money was a gift (which would put her in the 10k gift tax situation); or that she's just holding the money for the sender, until he returns to Thailand, 'cause he doesn't have a bank account; etc. Again, she's not in an income situation, unless performing current services. It's the remitter, if a tax resident of Thailand, who's on the hook for any taxes on remitted monies. But, yes -- a BG who received remittances that exceeded an amount the TRD has established as being subject to random compliance audits -- would just be another individual subject to such an audit. In which case, she could just prove she didn't send the money to herself, thus not subject to any tax (except maybe gift tax).- 1
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Investment for income stream for a Thai
Here is not the West. There is a limit to the degree you can americanize a Thai. I suspect you mean the US when talking of "the West" - many people in Europe are financially illiterate and too scared to invest in anything else than government bonds. Which is probably the best for your gf, 10 years pay 3.5% Gold would be better, but no income stream. Land is best, but no automatic income stream. I once bought mutual funds for a TGF, I wouldn't do it again. Accept she doesn't want it. -
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Trump Backs Elon Musk's Plan to Slash Government Spending
I do not endorse everything that is written below, extracted from a free financial newsletter from Wealth Research Group [much of it is here omitted]. I think it could broaden our horizons somewhat even if there are questionable points. It refers to a speech by Trump on the 27th July. -------------------------- QUOTE: If you don't love Trump's speech provided below, you're going to miss one of the most important trends of the next decade: decentralization. 1. Mr Trump began by complimenting and elevating the talent and genius of the cryptocurrency visionaries while equating them to the steel magnates at the turn of the 20th century. In just 15 years, Bitcoin made its way from concept to the 9th-largest asset class in the world. 2. Donald Trump applauded the atmosphere of community, cooperation, and the high level of human achievement the leaders of the industry possess. 3. Trump made it clear that the United States must lead the crypto industry ahead of China not by fighting against them but by excelling. Unlike the current administration, Trump wants to lead instead of preaching to China that they should bow down. 4. I like his next point because he called his presidency the "common sense" approach, and I missed that tactic for the last 30 years of fantasies and insanity. The best line was this: cryptocurrency will be mined, minted, and made in America. Trump is not only the first president to address a Bitcoin conference, but he also opened his campaign to donations that have exceeded $25M in crypto. 5. I was shocked by the next statistic Vivek shared with Trump: 175M people are already involved with the blockchain industry. He coined this: "Build the future, not block the future." He promises the government will be the friend of the industry and take drastic action to make the framework clear and simple. He wants this to be completed within the first 100 days of his term. 6. No CBDCs. 7.Here is the big one. It’s the one tactic that is the crown jewel for Trump 2024: stablecoin adoption. This will allow investors from around the globe to invest in the dollar through cryptocurrency. I think this is pure genius since it makes the dollar more important than ever in an era of deglobalisation. Think of the scores of human beings living in countries where stability of currency is but a dream. They could now peg their savings to the dollar! 8. Bitcoin surged 3,900% under Trump’s presidency and 50% under Biden’s. You want the best part? The U.S. government owns 210K Bitcoin, 1% of all the BTC possible, and Trump announced the commencement of TWO policies: • The U.S. government will never sell its Bitcoin. • The 210K BTC will serve as the seed for a strategic core stockpile. -
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SETV & METV still around now that visa exempts are now 60 days?
You've already been vetted, submitted an application and been approved to enter Thailand when you have a visa. There's no reason to have to submit information again for an ETA. Travel authorizations across the countries that use them are for pre-authorizing and collecting information for people that are traveling without a visa.
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