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21 hours ago, Eibot said:

I'm registered as a Freelancer in the Netherlands (No BV) and that is the country where my clients are. I don't have to pay tax there because I live in the UK. In the UK i'm registered as a Sole trader (No LTD), but in 12 months will not have to pay tax there since I will not live there(Checked this yesterday with HRMC). I will keep an International EU bank account where I will invoice from, and will sent the funds over from there through Transferwise to Thailand. In Thailand I (seemingly) cannot pay tax because I don't meet the requirements for a WP. 

 

Nobody wants my tax ????

 

Since I'm both registered as freelancers in The Netherlands and UK, I guess my business is "considered" outside of Thailand? However, I'm not liable for tax because I don't live there.

I would continue to pay tax to the uk. Carry on as if nothing had changed. 

When you apply for the yellow house book, do you have to take in the originals of the property's paperwork? Or would photocopies be accepted? 

And I presume you have to have any visa/extension other than a tourist visa. 

On 11/21/2019 at 2:51 AM, BobBKK said:

If you do not have a degree and a valid TEFL diploma you are an amateur who does not have the skills to teach. That's fine if you are volunteering in the local Wat for FREE it is not fine if you get paid to be a professional, qualified teacher (and are hear illegally).

Hear?

On 12/20/2019 at 4:48 AM, Martyp said:

The comparison between the UK and the US is very different. We do not have a National Health Service. It’s a private insurance market. It’s a “good” price because it it less than my US insurance was and I am happy with the terms of the policy.

 

Everyone’s circumstances are different. I live full time as a retiree in Thailand. I was able to suspend my US insurance. I can return to it in the future if I need it. I still pay for my dental and eye insurance In the US because one is cheap and the other is no charge. I make those doctor visits during my annual visits to the US though I am very happy with dental care in a Thailand. I took out travel insurance during my last trip to the US though I’m not sure I needed to. I have to check my Thai policy about coverage during a short trip to the US.

The suspension is only available at the end of the year?

Anyway of sospending mid year to carry on the following year?

On 12/20/2019 at 5:02 AM, heretostay said:

Sorry if I missed the older posts about the pink card getting easier. 

 

As for the yellow house book, that was also no problem at my district office in Bangkok, armed with passport, deed (chanote), the Land Office transfer form, and a Thai witness with ID card. (The house registration office, at the time, had advised me NOT to get the the pink ID card... but the actual ID card department was quite happy to issue one to me!)

Do you need the originale of the chanote, or is a photocopy sufficient? 

If you can,t get through to them by phone, do you have a friend that can go to your branch and pass you on the phone to the bank manager? 

Their customer care has an email [email protected]

wouldn.t hurt to send an email too.

And I agree with the previous poster to say you don.t know where it was lost.

https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Locate-Us   this link gives branch telephone numbers.

Good luck

3 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

The OP of this topic is Rexall, not 4MyEgo, but it's not essential.

Of course it is for you because you persist in your deny then every diversion 

possible is welcome. but I am not going to try to explain you anymore what is corruption

and what is not, obviously you are not able to understand (Or you don't want and

the result is the same) the difference. Nevermind and have a nice day\night (Depend where you are)

You are indeed right the OP is Rexall. My bad.

Your quote was of 4MyEgo post num 4 page 1. 

And my post stands the same, why accuse someone of not reading understanding by deliberately omitting the phrase that proves the opposite? It's curious. 

For me the question of our different views of what corruption effectively consists of is not important. 

But I do wonder if there is a word for someone who knowingly baits by using a total falsity.  

I wish you a pleasant evening too. 

7 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

You should read\understand better

1/ it's not the OP who forgot the photo

2/ offered was not imposed, but was not free

''it was a Friday, and I was told that I could send new ones in to the I/O on his LINE profile, he would download and print them off and put them with the application, i.e. if I would like to donate something to their Xmas fund, of which I did as it would have been a 3 hour return trip, money spent on fuel and my time etc etc, wife didn't want too....lol, so the 500 baht was worth it IMO, in other words he did me a favor as opposed to me returning on Monday.''

i understand you should have accepted too, but if you don't see any problem

you don't know the definition of corruption (You can form a club with Matzzon who doesn't seem to understand it also) because it's not a random guys offering a random service. he is a public agent solliciting a bribe to do something in direct relation with his public job. Normaly if the IO want to be correct he should give to the user the internet local office link to send the photos FOR FREE.

You get it now or not yet?

Your post

"You should read\understand better

1/ it's not the OP who forgot the photo

2/ offered was not imposed, but was not free"

Then you followed by quoting the op, all bar the phrase proceeding the quote published in the above.

.

And that phrase is....

"there was once that I forgot to take photos when I submitted my extension based on marriage to a Thai,"

Why? Just out of curiosity.

I take it that also that you have first hand experience of that particular IM office, as I'm not sure all would provide this service of receiving documents and attaching them to the files as part of their offices duties. I have normally found that they had to be brought in by hand.

In this scenario that OP has explained, in the complete post, that I read and understood, the IM making this offer to ForMyEgo (or I) would have been perceived welcomely, whereas you would have perceived it as as corruption and insisted that he receive the documents internet, alternatively you would have returned with the said forgotton photos.

1 hour ago, zydeco said:

Ah, protection money.

The op forgot the photos, he offered a solution where he would do a favour and print them then add to op,s file, thus saving a round trip. A mutual exchange, offered not imposed. I would have accepted in his shoes, seeing he had forgotton the photos. A solution whereby all are satisfied, I see no problem

So, the discussion is about the fact the io,s wrote visa, not extension??

And all the previous reassurances that absolutely the medical insurance was only for new OA,s, retirement extensions were excluded??

Today it doesn,t effect me, but I feel for whom it does.

I am sure as eggs is eggs that it is only a question of time that it will spread to all over 50,s. 

Please post the results if you buy it, I,ve been on the brink of buying it too. Can,t see why the system shouldn,t work. Dipping is a mess as often you get too much paint then as soon as you touch the wall it drips everywhere. The idea of a tank inside makes sense. So curious. ????

Where? 

11 hours ago, Mango Bob said:

This letter states that the wife and children must also have this insurance.  You know that is not correct.  Immigrations can not tell a Thai wife she must be included on the policy.  Anyway if they are on a O visa fr marriage they wouldn't be required to have insurance.  This just show how fake this letter is.

When the news of the insurance first came out, thats how I read it, that the family had to be insured too. 

On 10/22/2019 at 2:50 PM, Knocker33 said:

Ditto. Been waiting eight weeks for username/password. Asked at immigration about it. They just shrugged and said app no good no work. I just put it down the place is run by a bunch cretins 

Try this go to logon page, chose"register" which takes you to another page where there is the choice of "check status' clicked that. It seems to automaticaly send the password. Good luck

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

It is rendered unnecessarily expensive - and poor value for money - by the insistence on including OPD coverage.

It,s shame there isn.t the option of putting the Opd sum on a locked debit card. No annual costs, and refundable when expat leaves Thailand, and allows this opd to complete maybe an existing insurance already held.  

20 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

If they do not accept your application you would still have 30 days to get it sorted out.

Thanks Ubonjoe. 

What happens if you try to renew the extension 30 days early, and it is refused, does the expiry date stay they same? 

Or do they change it ? 

What I.m saying is if the paperwork isn,t accepted 30 days earlier, would you get chance to represent in the following 30 days before the original expiry date? Maybe with the help of an agent

1 hour ago, Stevemercer said:

My biggest problem is with the requirement for 40,000 outpatient coverage.

 

Outpatient is the biggest cost in any Thai insurance policy. I recently got rid of mine and saved about 35% off the premium.

 

Most of us can go to a local clinic or public hospital and pay about 200 Baht. A specialist appointment at a private hospital might stretch to 1,000 Baht. 

 

The cost per visit is minimal and I very much doubt foreigners skip on payment. I very much doubt the typical visitor would want or ever need 40,000 Baht coverage per year (200 visits to a public hospital).

 

I would like to know the basis for mandatory outpatient insurance and how the 40,000 Baht coverage was arrived at. This is because this coverage will be a major component of any mandatory insurance, seems unnecessary and will be paid per visit given the minimal cost per visit.

It would maybe more beneficial if they let us put the 40,000 outpatient on a locked hospital debit card. Always available, no annual cost, refundable when no longer needed. 

That way letting who already has insurance to keep what they,ve got. 

The bank shopping sounds good. There are 2 Bangkok banks close, one on suk soi11, and one on suk otherside of the road. 

I think you should take something with your thai address on, condo lease or bills. And most importantly stress that if they open it straightaway you will be depositing 800,000 baht on it. Tempting. 

Soi 11 speak English. 

Good suggestion from before is also taking the website info. 

Good luck. 

10 hours ago, mngmn said:

Five years in Thailand initially VE and then four consecutive multiple entry non immigrant O's. Monthly trips in and out of Thailand all in my Australian passport.

 

Refused a fifth non immigrant visa and so switched to UK passport and have to date made six VE entries. UK passport had never been used to enter Thailand.

 

UK passport is linked to biometrics but Australian is not. As soon as the two passports are linked by biometrics it's game over. Also wondering how many more VE entries I can do on my UK passport.

Grow a beard long side burns, change your parting, and take a photo.  I,d give it a try.

Make sure they stamp you in with the visa extension info. I didn,t look and got a wrong stamp, and spent a day a CW apologising to an irate IO. 

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Just asking, in this case it should help in any way if you have a color copy of your passport 

somewhere (On paper print or in your phone) ?

And it isn't better in this case to just declare the lost of the passeport?

(Then at least you not seems to be totaly stupid or careless in the eyes of the officials)

Also you wouldn,t be asked to render the old one.