skraach

Could someone explain what "Sight Bills" are and why the "Sight Bill Buying Rates" are higher than the "Bank Notes Buying Rates"?

1 hour ago, Steven mason said:

I received money in My Krungthai acct. 3 days ago from Paypal. 

It looks like 15 December is D-day. See if you can received money after that.

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Consumer, freelancer or casual seller, entrepreneur or sole proprietor with an account opened before 7 March, 2021: We will be transferring these accounts to PayPal Thailand in December 2022. As part of this process, you will first need to take some actions for your account to be transferred, so you can continue using your account after 15 December, 2022. Please refer to the email we have sent you on or after 11 October, 2022 for guidance.
Until then, you can continue to use your account as usual, including shopping with your PayPal wallet, and to send and receive money with it.

paypal.com/th/webapps/mpp/thailand-relaunch-faq

22 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

I registered using my Pink ID Card number and went thru without any trouble, easy peasy

You can enter any 13-digit number as your Thai ID number, but the problem will come later when you have to verify that number at the bank before 30 November 2022.

Just received an email from PayPal saying that Thai personal PayPal accounts will be transferred to PayPal Thailand in October 2022. But in order to do so, you must be enrolled in the National Digital ID (NDID) platform for which you need a Thai ID card. So it looks like foreigners will have to give up their Thailand-registered PayPal accounts.  

3 hours ago, RandiRona said:

What is this resort name or that would be a candidate of defamation?

Soneva Kiri

On 11/12/2021 at 4:39 PM, khunPer said:

The property tax-calculator HERE might answer your question...????

According to that, no business tax payable.

She owns it individually. I'm asking about the SBT in particular.

My Thai wife has owned a second house for more than 5 years. It is not her principal residence and she has never had her name in the household registration certificate. Will she have to pay Specific Business Tax (3.3%) on the sale of this property? In other words, does the 5-year rule apply for properties that are not your principal residence?

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Specific Business Tax
Specific Business Tax (SBT) is payable by companies and individuals who have owned the property for less than five years. It is based on the official appraised value or the contracted price, whichever is highest. An individual may be exempt from SBT if they have used the property as their principal residence and have had their name in the household registration certificate for at least one year.

(source: phuket net)

 

3 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

Its the DLT appraised value. I believe there are some provisions (or used to be) to transfer within a family, husband to wife, inheritance etc, but not sure how that works

Thanks

26 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

I think you will find there is an additional VAT if buying used from a dealer (but included in the sticker price), otherwise its

The transfer cost is based on the estimated amount of the sale value of your car. There’s a 105 baht transfer fee and a stamp duty of 0.005 % of the estimated car price. For example, if the car is estimated at 300,000 baht, the total transfer cost would be 1,605 baht (105+(300000 x 0.005)).

Thanks for that info. Who estimates the sale value of the car? Buyer? Seller? Transport office staff? Is the stamp duty charged even if the car is given to you?

Sales tax/VAT? Transfer of ownership fees?

I own a company with my Thai wife and I'm on my third consecutive 2-year work permit which have been available for non-BOI companies since at least 2017. Cost is 6,000 baht, so no saving on the fees. Just one less visit to the Labor Office.

3 hours ago, sanmyintmaung said:

Yes, you will get 2 years extension of your work permit despite your passport expiring earlier.

Thanks for confirming that.

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

When does your extension of stay end? Those are only issued to the day your passport expires.

Extension of stay was done October 2020 and I didn't get a full year because of the passport expiry.

My work permit expires January 2021 and my passport expires August 2021. Can I extend my work permit for 2 years as usual or will they only extend it to the passport expiry date? I don't plan to travel next year so was going to wait until June to renew my passport.

On 2/13/2020 at 5:41 PM, sanmyintmaung said:

I added ten digits Kasikorn bank account number in my Thai paypal to withdraw funds. No branch code added.

I have now added a Bangkok Bank account to my PayPal account using just the 10-digit account number and have successfully transferred funds from PayPal to bank account. Thanks.

I'm trying to link a Thai bank account to my PayPal account so I can transfer funds out of PayPal. However, when I try to link the Thai bank account, PayPal asks for a 15-digit account number. Thai bank accounts have only 10 digits and the branch codes are 4 digits which makes only 14 digits. I've tried entering a 14-digit number and PayPal says the account is linked. But then when I try to transfer funds out, a couple of days later PayPal says "withdrawal denied". I've tried linking both Kasikorn and Bangkok Bank accounts to no avail. Has anybody successfully linked a Thai bank account to PayPal and withdrawn funds? 

I have two adjoining properties in a residential area, one with a house on it, the other is vacant. There is a continuous fence around the outer perimeter and no fence in between the two plots (it looks like one piece of land). Under the new property tax, the primary residence is exempt, but vacant land is taxed. Can anyone advise whether the adjacent plot will be tax exempt because it is connected to the primary residence with a fence around it?

On 5/21/2019 at 10:46 AM, skraach said:

This week the language input selector (indicated by green arrow above) is missing from Google translate? Has anyone else noticed this and/or know the reason why?

 

Today the input selector is back.

On 4/29/2019 at 12:58 PM, donim said:

This week the language input selector (indicated by green arrow above) is missing from Google translate? Has anyone else noticed this and/or know the reason why?

To sort using Thai dictionary alphabetical order in MS Word and Excel, you need to set Window's format to Thai. This is how you do it in Windows 10:

Control Panel > Region > "Formats" tab > Format: Thai (Thailand) > "Apply" button

This setting will also change other things such as the default currency to baht and the date to Thai language and Thai years. So after you have done the sorting, you might want to change back to your previous format setting.

So there's no way to type these symbols without changing the input method? That's a pity. The problem would be solved if the symbols were included in the predictive text list. For example, for "boiboi" it should list "บ่อยๆ" instead of "บ่อยบ่อย" because that's the way it is normally written. I'll send a request to Google.

I really like using google translate for typing Thai script using an English keyboard. However, I can't work out how to get other symbols such as " ๆ " (ไม้ยมก mai ya-mok) like in " บ่อยๆ " and " ฯ " (ไปยาลน้อย pai-yan noi) like in " กรุงเทพฯ ". Has anyone worked out a shortcut to type these symbols using an English keyboard?

Tried some new cables and finally got the gigabit speeds happening on the PCs and maxing out the 100/50 internet connection. It was all about the cables.

However, it was interesting that the Macs could get gigabit speed from the exact same cables (i.e. unplug the cable from the pc and plug it into the Mac) while the PCs could only manage 10mbps.

Thanks for everyone's help.

17 minutes ago, shady86 said:

It might be quality of your Lan cables. Some cat5e cables can't run at 1gbps. You can test it with other cables which runs at 1gpbs to your macs.

 

Since cables are cheap now, go for cat 6e for anything over 2M.

Yes, but why does the PC show 100mbps while the Mac show 1gbps using the same ethernet cable?