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As the title of this video suggests, we are talking about tax, yet again. And again, I'm kind of just posing hypotheticals at this point because there is a lot of nonsense floating around the ether, frankly it's detritus, floating around the ether of the internet at the moment. A lot of it has been created by the spewing nonsense of a bunch of interloping illegal tax stamp-pimps that are out here in Thailand, and they have stirred up a lot of nonsense and they have caused a great deal of conservation especially in the expat community when I don't think it's warranted at all. Frankly I find it appalling. I wonder what the US Government is doing about this because quite frankly, there's an agent of the IRS that's actively, actively flouting Thai Law. Thais, an ally of America, and we are allowing agents of the IRS to come over here and just openly violate our ally's laws and espouse to them how their tax system should work.

That said, setting that aside, again I'm coming back to the notion of this 180 days and how again one-size-fits-all cookie cutter analysis is not very useful to much of anybody. Here's an example of somebody that could be not in Thailand 180 days and might have Thai Tax liability. What if a guy has been over here a couple of months, he buys a lottery ticket off the beach - some vendor is down there selling lottery tickets - and he happens to win the jackpot. There's an example of a guy that wasn't here 180 days and might have some tax liability back to Thailand. In fact, it probably does. I'd say it's a foregone conclusion, like with any prize of that nature. They are going to get there cut the minute you take the money, and you are probably just going to take whatever is left over, okay? So the thing to take away from these videos and I don't know there's somebody out there that may say, well under these circumstances, something may be tax exempt, have blah, blah. Look, all I'm trying to point out is you can be in Thailand for less than 180 days and end up in a situation where some windfall hits you that you could owe some tax.

The point is you can't do one-size-fits-all analysis. and anybody out there using cookie-cutter analysis that saying, 'oh if this, then this, like this' you really need to look at that person askance because you have to question their motives. That is not how you analyze cases when it comes to any kind of legal situation. Whether it be tax liability, Immigration, whatever. Property, Corporate Law, you have to look at the facts of the case and that's the point that I've been trying to make down the line with this. This is very disingenuous - in fact disingenuous is a very mild, polite word - this is a form of fraud in my opinion, especially by the interloping tax stamp-pimps out there who are clearly operating illegally. I am mad at the Embassy at this point, why they're allowing that, especially where you have somebody who is a clear agent of the IRS. They're clearly out of line doing that, you know. 

So that being said, the thing to take away from this video is again cookie-cutter analysis is useful to precisely no one. You need to have somebody analyze your situation based on specific facts in the underlying case and then make findings of fact and conclusions of law based upon those facts.