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16 minutes ago, bdenner said:

Thank you for that, will get the TW's step son (executor, living in the UK and doing the leg work over there for them) to look into this.

This might also be useful.

https://www.gov.uk/tax-uk-income-live-abroad/personal-allowance

35 minutes ago, bdenner said:

We had a reasonably well off UK pensioner pass away some time ago. Both his TW and Daughter (18yo attending university) get a percentage of his private pensions paid directly into their Thai Bank accounts. The TW is not a UK passport holder pays UK tax at 30% (flat rate), the Daughter gets the tax refunded as she has a passport but does not meet the UK tax threshold.

 

Are they going to get caught up in this crap?

A Thai national living in Thailand is entitled to the £12,570 tax free allowance available to UK citizens. 0% tax on that amount then 20% up to about £50 k. There's some paperwork involved - isn't there always!! - but probably worth it if her inherited pension is a reasonable amount.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/residence-domicile-and-remittance-basis/rdrm10340    (about halfway down the page)

A guess; Vehicle parked on the hard shoulder. Trailer truck in the left lane pulls out to give clearance to pass it, suddenly, without signalling and without looking as they so often seem to do. Unfortunately, the flour truck was pretty much alongside him, had nowhere to go so collided and overturned. 

On 8/15/2024 at 9:16 AM, Pouatchee said:

 

... most thais rely solely on their mirrors ...

They might occasionally look in their mirrors but for a long time I've been convinced that many don't understand what they see in them.

25 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

 Heading.....?????

Anticlockwise heading sort-of northeast, at the junction highlighted towards the right-hand side of the picture attached. They seemed to be coming from northbound Highway 2. Wrong direction?

3 hours ago, bob smith said:

it's been a while since i've seen the old tanks.

 

bob.

I saw 11 of 'em on transporters in Khon Kaen about a week ago on the ring road.

I can't help but see all this as a real-life prequel to the film "Children of Men", without the human fertility issues.

On 8/1/2024 at 4:02 PM, 10baht said:

There is disease that is keeping Thailand from being a world class tourist destination. One and only one symptom is of that disease manifests itself in the fact that ... wait for it... no Olympic coverage on TV.

If that was true, it'd encourage me to visit Thailand. But I'm already here so lack of coverage suits me fine.

Now it's all over, did anybody receive their postal vote papers, complete them and get them back to the local Electoral Office in time, as shown by PO tacking, for your vote to be included?

3 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

Not true. FET stands for Foreign Exchange Transaction form, in practise, any official advice or notification form used by the bank to confirm the transaction, will suffice. Ask and you shall recieve.

Do you know, Mike, if that mean I can go to my bank and ask for an FET for ANY transfer into Thailand at any time in the past (maybe within reasonable time limits)? Or must it be obtained at the time of transfer?

1 minute ago, Thingamabob said:

So much for so called 'Buddhism' in Thailand. Utterly disgusting.

For a religion that advocates, as I understand it, not harming living creatures, this offering of pigs heads, chickens etc. at temples seems to go against all principles. Never understood it and never get a proper answer when I ask practising 'Buddhists' why dead animal sacrifices are made.

Drawing pension since 2019 under the new pension scheme.

Thanks for the article, topt. That's information I knew already. 

The main thrust of my question, both here and in my message to IPC, is - 'Does a FROZEN pension in payment increase with voluntary contributions?'

I have 42 years of NICs, many of those 'contracted out' so that my pension, back in '19 and with the max. number of years I could buy at that time, was 87% of the full pension. Obviously a smaller %age now.

I looked at my National Insurance Record online the other day. It said that I had until the end of this tax year to make voluntary NICs for 6 of the years I've been in Thailand - 2010/11 > 2015/16. The necessary payment for each year was stated and working out how much extra pension might result is easy enough. I know it's a good deal, having paid voluntary NICs in the past, so would be inclined to make the extra payments.

I'm already receiving my State Pension but I shot off a query to the International Pension Centre asking whether, as an existing pensioner, I could make these extra payments (it's seems possible according to MoneySavingExpert). I also asked whether payments would result in increased pension payments since my pension is frozen. I'm sure DWP would be happy to take the money and then say "Frozen pension = no extra".

Has any existing pensioner been through this process and found out whether voluntary NICs increase their existing frozen pension?

Made a small transfer via the Bangkok Bank mobile app at 2.30 pm today and all was OK - got the e-mail confirmation of transfer, along with the transaction record in my phone's photo gallery, almost instantly and the "You've logged into mobile app" e-mail notification about 45 minutes later. 

Maybe something's changed since 2.30.

45 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

The Union Flag (not Jack) is the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The flag of England is the St George's Cross.

29 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

No problem - lots of British people call it the Union Jack too; it's more my pedantry than anything else.

 

According to the Flag Institute, either Union FLAG or Union JACK is correct.

https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Union-Jack-or-Union-Flag.pdf

The FI seems to come to a pragmatic solution to this controversy.

12 hours ago, daveAustin said:

... But if he does actually die, then we will all know that he really was sick.

Spike Milligan immediately came to mind when I read that.  

The inscription on his headstone:-

Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite = I told you I was sick.