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Female Doing Driving Practice Crashes Into Home, Causing Major Damage
Buts why I left foot brake, to keep my foot on the throttle. Helps with corners exits to keep the engine on boost. -
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Thai gov. to tax (remitted) income from abroad for tax residents starting 2024 - Part II
Numerous members have said that TRD should make Thai nationals pay tax, before making foreign residents pay and but they seem unwilling to do this. A regular tax poster took me to task (as is his frequent want and need) for saying that most Thai nationals don't earn enough to warrant filing a return, once TEDA is taken into account, so I dug into things more deeply. The population is circa 70 million but the workforce is only 38 million, the rest are too young, too old, too inform, too incarcerated or too something to be included. About 11% of the population (7.7 mill) files a tax return but only around 6% pay tax. Most of that 11% will be from the workforce which means 20% of the workforce files a return, a more reasonable sounding number. Ah yes you say, but most people work cash in hand and don't declare their earnings. Possibly, but dig into that headline more deeply and all is not what it first appears. The informal economy or grey market is said to equal 50% of GDP or around 8 trillion baht. Divide that amount by the number of people in the workforce and the average national wage of 15,000 baht per month increases to 30,000 baht. BUT, over 55% of workers in the informal economy are agricultural workers, who earn two times lower than their counterparts in the formal economy. What all that leaves us with is around 25% of the workforce who have informal earnings that are not declared, those are the people the TRD needs to target. But the answer to the question, why don't Thai's file tax returns is simply answered, most of them don't earn enough to qualify to do so. "IF the average wage nationwide is 15k per month, most married couples with one child have enough in TEDA to qualify to not file a return". Lastly, it's interesting that many foreigners who move to Thailand, do so for the lower cost of living. Yet they earn between three and six times the average wage but complain they are being made to pay tax when their much poorer hosts do not! Hmmm. The size of Thailand's informal economy is estimated to be 48.4% of GDP (THB18.7 trill.) or Please credit and share this article with others using this link: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2745121/call-for-better-integration-of-the-informal-economy. View our policies at http://goo.gl/9HgTd and http://goo.gl/ou6Ip. © Bangkok Post PCL. All rights reserved. More than half of informal workers, 55.4%, are in the agricultural sector, earning nearly two times lower than their counterparts in the formal sector. Please credit and share this article with others using this link: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2708701/over-half-of-thai-workers-in-informal-sector. View our policies at http://goo.gl/9HgTd and http://goo.gl/ou6Ip. © Bangkok Post PCL. All rights reserved. -
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Room with View or Quiet Room: Your priority is?
I would actually LOVE a padded cell. But, aren't they expensive? With a padded cell, I would be in a truly quiet environment for the first time since leaving the EastCoast of Taiwan, on the most eastern tip of the entire island of Formosa. It would be great. -
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British Man Drives 500 km to See 'Lamduan,' Sisaket’s Baby Hippo
It's good to mention his nationality. That explains all 😂 -
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Dancers at Police Station Spark Outrage Among Netizens
Maybe it was a distraction for a breakout from the cells. -
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Police Sergeant Killed in Motorcycle Collision with Pickup Truck While Buying Food
So who was going the wrong way or on the wrong side of the road -
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Myanmar Man Arrested for Brutal Murder of Fellow Worker in Phetchabun
skinned his face? wth hope after the victim was dead -
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Tourist Van Accident in Prachuap Khiri Khan: 8 Injured, 1 Dead
Who said anything about bad tyres? Maybe he had a natural puncture by running over some debris? -
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Trump Works at McDonald’s claims Kamala Harris 'never has
It is the only job outside of government that has been verified by more than one source. -
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Why are most movies released post-2000 unwatchable?
Are you talking about miscegenation? Also, if this is the case, I would really like to know if anyone has any statistics showing Anglo-Saxon women as partners to non-Anglo-Saxon males as portrayed in tv and radio commercials. How do you know that this is increasing. If increasing, than by how much is this increasing. Also, was there a sudden upward inflection point in the data beginning at any specific year? Meaning, was there a sudden rise in the year 2000?, 2005, 20010, 2015, or 2020? In other words, was there a specific period when this behavior suddenly shifted to become considered more normative behavior? Wish someone could answer this question more authoritatively. -
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Police Raid Illegal Bitcoin Mining Operation That Caused 6 Million Baht in Losses
read the article... bypassing the meter = zero bill for them -
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Deadlocked Between Trump and Harris in NBC News Poll as Election Approaches
In 2016 Hillary won the popular vote by 48% to Trump's 46%. However, the US is not a democracy, so Trump won with 304 Electoral votes to Hillary's 234. I strongly suspect that the numbers will be similar this time, though the popular vote may be even more lopsided. A reform of the electoral system in the US is long overdue!- 1
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Dancers at Police Station Spark Outrage Among Netizens
It will be assumed that we spend all our time looking at things like this. Even less support for unfreezing my pension. I'm sure some people think Thailand is Bangkok and a long beach. -
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Police Sergeant Killed in Motorcycle Collision with Pickup Truck While Buying Food
a drink in one hand and mobile on the other? -
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Foreign Election Interference in the US 2024 Election!
Because you don't care if a jury found Trump liable for sexual assault. If the victim were your relative, you might feel differently.
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