khunPer

Normally you can deposit a cheque in your own bank, but the funds will not appear in your account before after a week or so, when the cheque is cleared with the other bank. Same procedure as with foreign cheques, apart from they take a month or more to clear them...????

As I already answered earlier in this thread... On 6/26/2023 at 8:51 AM, khunPer said: I didn't make a new TM30 last time I entered Thailand from abroad back in August 2022. I renewed my extension of stay at Samui Immigration in October with a print of my two years old TM30 registration. After the new rules you don't need a new TM30 if you stay at the same address.

The short answer is: You need a work permit. You can be investor in a partnership or company, be a director as board-member, but not do any other physical work without a work permit.

That's however how it is, your re-entry permit is – and shall be – valid for the length of your stay. Always extend stay before applying for re-entry permit, if you cannot do it at the same time, as you can in smaller immigration offices.

No, not after the new rules. You can travel domestic to other provinces and stay in hotels and private and return without a new TM30, if that place is your reported address, and from abroad if you have a multiple entry visa or re-entry permit. However, as almost always, there might be difference between the immigration offices in how they bends the rules. The original article was here at ASEAN NOW, se especially article 2 in the translation...

Problems with post delivery must be local, I seem to have no problems in Maenam – i.e. I'm not missing anything – and I regularly see Postman Pat on motorbike with lots of mail...

I didn't make a new TM30 last time I entered Thailand from abroad back in August 2022. I renewed my extension of stay at Samui Immigration in October with a print of my two years old TM30 registration. After the new rules you don't need a new TM30 if you stay at the same address.

70,000 are the registered number of people, not the actual amount of folks on the island. During the the Covid-vaccinations the authorities counted 125.000 persons as inhabitants, including non-registered inhabitants, workers and remaining tourists. You should count with the double number, i.e. at least 140,000 individuals on the island. So rather around 9 cubic meter per day per person. However, far from all downpour can be stored. And where shall it be stored for the dry season? Daily use of water per person is between 100 L and 200 L, not including filling a bathtub or spa with freshwater, and depending of how many times per day you shower. Many will shower three times per day, especially during the hot season. If counted with average 150 L per person per day it's 55 cubic meter per year. On top comes cleaning, including car wash and laundry; topping up in various pools due to evaporation; watering plants and garden; drinking water and ice production; etc. etc. With just 200 L in average use per person per day, the daily need of fresh water will be up around 30,000 cubic meters; probably more. So even when you calculate with Samui's total area and around 1,25 million cubic meter downpour in average per day, it's only a fraction of that, which can be used for freshwater. If you have a dry season of just 100 days, you'll need storage for around 3 million cubic meters of fresh water. In average the dry season on Samui is four months or 120 days, in el Nino-years like now, it's longer. So water storage should be at least 6 million cubic meters including some evaporation. To my knowledge there are a water reservoir in Marat... It's something like 600 x 600 meters, including the stadium island; i.e. 0.36 square kilometers minus the island, so perhaps around 0.3 square kilometers. If you can count on useable water level as 1 meter, then you need a 6 square kilometers storage for 6 million cubic meters of water, or 3 square kilometers if you have 2 meter useable water level. There might be another small reservoir next to the Land Transport Office in Lipa Noi – I was of the impression that the water works there is also a reverse osmosis plant, but I might be wrong.

You Brit and US fellow, "always look at bright side of life": Thailand is stated as only 4.51 inches...????

Check that if you cut half of the trees, the remaining half might grow fatter. I was once told by wood experts, that the could easily control the trees growth depending of how close the planted the trees. The grow rate would constant, but if tree stood close, the would grow high, while if the stood wide apart, they would grow fat.

Yes you can – a foreigner can own a house, I own my house – but you cannot declare buying house & land, as you cannot own the land under the house, if you haven't entered on a 40 million baht investor visa. If you however state "buying property", it can both be condominium and house...

The sales proceeds belongs to the company that owns the house. Taxes at Land Office shall be paid first. Then you can take funds out of the company as dividends to shareholders of which tax shall be withheld. The payout to your shares is yours; don't forget that you can only own 49 percent. There is a limit of how much you can transfer out of Thailand without declaration. It's normally advised to keep the incoming transfer's declaration from Bank Of Thailand – state for example investment or "buying a house" – as you will be eligible to transfer similar amount out of Thailand. A better way might be to lend the company part of the sum for buying property and be eligible for being paid back upon sale of property. You can have the loan declared as a servitude. If you are paid interest on the loan, the interest is taxable in Thailand. The sales proceeds exceeding the loan value however still belongs to the company that owns the house.

That is, what I'm saying...

That is correct, but you need a document/letter from tessa ban to bring to the amphor, when applying for a pink ID-card for aliens. And it's the same other places, but tessa ban and amphor might physically be in same location, so it might be percepted as two departments in the same district office.

I live beachfront and has a well without salt water. If a beachfront well is too deep the water can become salty. Otherwise it has to be a very deep bore, like my neighbour has. However, the sandy soil gave other problems with water quality; today I use hill-water from a tank-truck...????

Surat Thani...????

It's depending on how deep you make the well.

Amazing Thailand; same-same, but different: Where I live I need to go to the tessa ban-office to get building permission and house book, and to the amphor-office to get an ID-card – however, need a letter from tessa ban, as I'm an alien – and to pay my income tax, but not property tax, that's to be done at the tessa ban's revenue office... Tessa ban also takes care of maintenance etc., which was not relevant to mention here; however electrical supply is done by PEA (Provincial Electricity Authority). To say it simple: Tessa ban takes care og local things, like building permissions, house book registration, local supply and maintenance; Amphor takes care of nationwide stuff like ID-registration, income tax and Social Security..

No, answer to OP's: "I have house built in Suphan Buri District, my wife has the house registered in her name and has the blue book, so my question is, can I have the house registered in my name..."

If your read the header to this thread: "do u guys usually smile to the staff / waiters when u go buy / eat / shop ?" – then it's an answer...

Might be placed together some places, but it's still two different government functions. Tessa ban is for example where building permissions and house books are issued, whilst Amphor is ID-registration and income tax (not property tax). I mention it, so OP can be guided to the correct place – where I live the two offices are quite far from each other...????

For a new built house you don't get a title deed – you need permission from owner and building permission as proof of ownership – but when a house with separate owner is re-sold, such a deed can be issued. No, no need for that, just a permission from the owner is needed; preferably a superficies servitude. However, it's wise to a have a long lease or other fairly safe document, when "investing" in building a house in Thailand...????

To my knowledge, it is always the local tessa ban-office that issues house books, whilst the amphor-office issues ID-cards, including the pink one for aliens...????

No, you cannot have the house registered in your name as owner. To do that, you need the house to be separated from the land, which is a process that begins before a new house is built. You need a permission from the land owner – which preferable should be a superficies servitude – and building permission issued to your name, architect drawings containing your name, and all building contracts and payments with your name on. However, you can apply for being resident in the house and be registered in a yellow house book for aliens. You need permission from the house owner and register at the local tessa ban-district office. Check with the office first, what they need of documents and eventual witnesses; there can be huge difference in that. You will always need a certified Thai-translation of your name and passport's name page. I own my house and used the above process. As house owner I'm the only one that can approve names in the house books, both blue for Thais and yellow for aliens. In my case, being registered in the yellow house book was quite a complicated process, which besides the little costly certified translation of my name – several pages, mainly with the translators certificates and official rubber stamps – needed two Thai witnesses that know me to be present at the tessa ban-office – one neighbour and one government employee – to justify that I was me; a quite long interview about why I wished to stay in the house, where a translator was permitted. It was almost like applying for permanent citizenship, apart from I didn't need to speak the Thai language, and I didn't need to sing the national hymn acapella (the office staff shall be happy for that)... Others have however, in other provinces, more or like just walked in at their tessa ban-office and got a yellow house book registration...

Which is quite common, if you are not four you still pay for four and get food and drinks for four. If the drinks comes in bottles, you can take the bottle(s) with you home with the remaining drink...???? However, in the present story, it seems like you meet a so-called gold-digger that lost interest in you, when the mine emptied...