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Richard Kuklinski

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  1. On 6/28/2023 at 2:51 AM, Will27 said:

    The old age pension is taxable, but if it's your only source of income, you won't pay any tax.

    It still has to be included in your tax return if you lodge one.

    My accountant puts in a tax return for me every year so I don't get fined.  There is nothing much on it and he doesn't charge me much.  I don't stay in Australia more than half the year but resident or not a resident I have never heard anything from the tax office while I have been living here.

     

    https://www.expattaxes.com.au/do-i-need-to-lodge-a-tax-return/

  2. On 2/22/2022 at 2:33 PM, aussiexpat said:

    Restrictions vs actual

     

    No bars open - all bars open relabled as restaurants 

     

    ATK before entry - yeah right, at most temp check ok

     

    No GoGo's - see first point, now restaurants

     

    Masks everywhere - except in bars

     

    No alcohol before 11am or between 2pm and 5pm - enforced at Hooters and 7/11, all other bars serving no problem 

     

    Did they give a date when this would stop or will they keep this to get rid of a lot of gogo and bars to change Pattaya?

  3. On 10/4/2021 at 7:37 AM, FalangJaiDee said:

     

    I like to play this game called “we all already know exactly what happened”

    so this is what happened:

     

    the wife went out and arranged for the Thai intruder to rob her husband, either because she just wants a nice payout and/or get rid of him under the guise of a robbery gone wrong.

     

    the fact that she had to be woken up, and the fact that she knew the guy, is enough evidence. Of course they “had no relationship.”

     

    I have a Thai girl who tells me straight to my face unflinchingly that she doesn’t have a boyfriend, yet when I go on her tiktok, she’s taking a video and he’s slumped on the bed in the background.

     

    Things I’m not doing:

    -getting married to a Thai woman (nope! Don’t care)

    -buying anything that I can rent at all 

    -?retiring outside a farang ghetto? 

     

     

    If you stick to that winning formula, you will have a good and peaceful and long time in Thailand, while other people are in financial and emotional trouble and in despair.  

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  4. 4 hours ago, BenBen23 said:

    The average Thai person makes 350$ a month working 10 hours a day 6 days a week. There is no public education or social pension. The luxuries you are talking about are out of reach for 90% of citizens.

     

    In a country that does not offer citizenship to immigrants, why should I care? 

     

    How many times do I hear, "It's their country.  Leave it to the Thai's."  They have an unequal society here, not unlike many other countries, particularly African nations. 

     

    Thailand is under a pseudo dictatorship.  If the Thai's want a more equal society, they will have to protest or revolt for it.  

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  5. 2 hours ago, zaZa9 said:

    Im not sure many other Thais  can say that.

     

    There within lies the problem. 

     

    The Thai government is struggling with the fact that covid is forcing them to make Thailand equal opportunity for vaccination, at the government's expense. 

     

    They have never contemplated, for anything, ever, that all Thai people must get the same, for the benefit of the country, as a whole. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

    They are desperate for (foreign) tourists but wanna RIP em off for 500 Baht as soon as they step off the plane or ferry, go & sit in the corner with the pointy hat on you numpty ????

     

    500 Baht x 400,000 = 200,000,000

     

    This is why Phuket is hit hardest by covid.  Western tourists were fed up with the place before covid because of the rip offs, then when covid came along, what domestic tourism could Phuket get with its well know reputation among locals and expats for ripping tourists off, zero.  

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  7. 53 minutes ago, nchuckle said:

    It’s not as though coming to Phuket is a privilege- it’s a choice as a customer to spend your money in the local economy which is on its @rse just now. Phuket should be incentivising that ...which doesn’t include alienating potential customers in this way.

     

    Phuket begged for customers after the tsunami. 

     

    People came back to help the local Phuket economy, and what happened, they straight away started to price gouge, extort, rip off, assault, and rob people. 

     

    I don't think it would be any different after covid. 

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