chris2004

If they told you the truth you probably wouldn't have ordered it, so they lied. Easy.

I live not far from Pattaya station and pass it most days ,difficult to get to without transport and to be honest very rarely see a train 

ps very little to see in sri racha ,except robinsons.mind you the grounds of assumption school are nice ,our son used to go there.

That's the problem, you can't get to the station without transport, and if you have transport you don't need the train. TIT

Should only be an oil change, minimal cost. I don't know about Chevrolet but my Mitsubhishi 1st service was 1,062 baht.

I had to push to get an English manual for my Mitsubhishi Attrage. When i asked the dealer initially the reply was of course no can do. If you persist with the manufacturer they will get you one, cost me 500 baht. They obviously are available as these are global cars sold in English speaking countries.

I got scammed by this as well. When my girlfriend got her braces they said the time frame would be 2 years with a maximum fixed cost of 25,000 baht. Monthly adjustments were 1,000 baht. She eventually got them taken out after nearly 5 years, by which time the monthly adjustments had gone up to 2,000 baht. Total cost @ 50,000 baht.

Once you start the programme they have got you by the b***s. No other dentist will touch you, we tried.

I had this very same choice a few months ago. In fact i went for the Attrage, in my view a much better car than the Mirage, and the others. The boot is very big 450 litres compared to the tiny boots on the hatchbacks. Plus the Attrage has all the safety features you could want and with a baby on board a sedan is probably better than a hatchback. Have you seen the back of a Brio. A rear end collision would probably take out the rear seats as well.

Fuel economy is probably similar with all three. They quote 22 kpm but in real life driving around town i get 13-16 kpm, which i think is OK for a CVT petrol car.

The Attrage is very well equipped for an entry level eco car and i think Mitsubhishi have some good promotion deals now. I got 30k off the price, free insurance and a load of freebies.

I did consider the Honda Amaze as well but Honda's attitude to potential buyers sucked so much i wrote them off.

 

This is from Siam Legal website
 
            Rental Income Taxes: Individual property owners have to pay taxes on any rental income their property generates.
            Corporate property owners have to pay annual taxeson all of their real estate holdings in Thailand whether they rent out their property to third parties or occupy              
            the property themselves.
 
From this I assume a person buying a condo in their own name and living in it themselves does not have to pay wothholding tax or am I missing something?

I think that quote relates to actual rental income on which income tax should be paid (and which bizarrely many landlords seem to forget to declare here).

The withholding tax is different, even though it addresses the same thing. The withholding tax and the business tax are both really just capital gains tax under another name.

 

Is the withholding tax a capital gains tax? It appears that you have to pay it even if you have made no capital gains (or even a loss).

Very sad that anyone dies but i must be one of the few who didn't find him funny. He just seemed to rely on shouting ever louder to make a joke as in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM.

 

A question for you.
 
Yes, Amazon customer service sometimes gives canned responses like this, but at least they do ALWAYS answer emails.
 
Also, even though this is a digital download I am assuming Amazon pays tax on Thai imports. It is still an import and Thailand is probably to blame for a higher price, not Amazon.
 
Remember.... you do pay tax for kindle downloads, app purchases (android or iOS) in USA/Canada/Europe, so why do you think Amazon would not pass Thai tax to the customer?
 
 

Assuming big Companies like Amazon pay any tax at all is a leap of faith. Most of them register themselves in tax havens to evade taxes. I use the word evade rather than avoid because although usually quite legal it is to my mind totally unethical.


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You can't really blame them , we would avoid/evade tax if we could. If the tax laws of the countries concerned allow it then why not. What amazes me is that the tax laws do allow it - something fishy there.
 

I bought a Samsung DVD player/recorder when i came to Thailand and used it to record programmes off Truevisions onto its 160gb harddrive.. I am sure it would work equally well with CTH. I had to set each timed recording manually though which was a bit fiddly. Since then however i have got Truvisions own PVR which is MUCH better. The menu system is so easy to use and you can add an unlimited number of 2.5in storage drives. Well worth the 99 baht a month. This would not work with CTH though.

Google never lies

Google might not lie but Google, and Thai Visa, searches don't provide any useful information.

Sorry i know this has been raised before and i have checked the previous replies but they are either out of date or give very conflicting results.

I am looking to sell my 4 million baht condo (bought for 4 million in farang name) which i have owned for 8 years. I am trying to guage the likely cost of selling, excluding for the moment any realtor costs, possibly 3-5 %.

Just looking at the taxes there seems to be 4 :-

Special business tax 3.3% but not applicable to me as i have owned the property for over 3 years.

Stamp Duty - seems to be 0.5% = 20,000

Transfer tax 2% usually split 50/50 with the buyer = 40,000

Withholding tax. This is the tricky one. Looking at an example quoted by one of the solicitors this seems to be calculated as follows:-

4,000,000 x 0.5 = 2,000,000  2,000,000/8 = 250,000 baht/year  100,000 x .05 =5,000  150,000 x .1 =15,000  total 20,000 x 8 =160,000

Therefore total taxes = 20,000 + 40,000 + 160,000 = 220,000 = 5.5% of the sale price.

On top there would be realtor costs 120,000 - 200,000 and legal costs ? so a total of maybe 400-500,000 baht.

This seems pretty excessive and would probably put me off selling. Has anyone recently sold a condo in this price bracket and is willing to tell what the total selling costs were.

Apart from housing i think that living expenses are very similar across Thailand. The big things you buy are all a standard price - electricity, gas (petrol), satellite TV, insurance, electrical goods, cars bikes. The only things that vary are beer and some food costs, but even there if you shop around there is very little difference. I can drink or eat in Pattaya for the same price as Chiang Mai, Udon, Korat etc.

I don't think there are any public pools in Jomtien. My condo has just introduced a residents card system to stop outsiders trying to use the pool.

You obviously haven't had CTH. Makes True look good.

I can't understand why any one does their own washing in Thailand when you can get it done externally for 500 baht a month. Do you enjoy ironing in 90F heat?

Maybe already mentioned is:

- free shuttle bus from Don Muang to Suvarnabuhmi Airport (hourly)

- from there the Suvarnabumhi to Jomtien bus service (THB 134 p.p.) (hourly)

http://www.airportpattayabus.com/suvarnahbumi.html

You can forget the "free" shuttle but from Don Meung to Suvarnabhumi unless you have another flight out of Suvarnabhumi.

Why do people buy these tanks to drive around the narrow sois of Thailand. Not like they ever go off road.

I find Makro much cheaper than the "wholesaler" on Thepprasit near Thappraya road, so i just shop there, easy parking as well.

I use Lazada sometimes but their pop ups are annoying. I use Adblocker but it doesn't seem to stop them. Help anyone?

A similar issue is whether my tgf can learn to drive in my car. It's a catch 22, she can't drive until she gets a licence but can't get a licence unless she learns to drive. How do thais learn to drive? is there no provisional licence like we have in the UK.

get her to take lesson in a school? a friend of mine took drivers lessons, was not to costly, i think about 6-7k baht and after that he did the test and got the license.

No need to use your car for that.

Yes a driving school is the obvious answer but my point was she would still have no licence whilst learning, and therefore no insurance. If she has a crash who is liable (for maybe millions of baht), the driving school or the driver. I can't see any insurance company in the world proving cover for an unlicenced driver.

Having run a hospital in the UK it's obvious that they are the most expensive. They have massive overheads before you even see a doctor.

Avoid Samsung. My Samsung TV broke just after the warranty expired and could not be repaired.