Dmaxdan

Why?

When I visited my local RD office last year with my wife in tow they seemed to be completely baffled as to why I was there. They were not interested in looking at my statements for the previous year. All they did was ask me if I'd remitted more than one million baht to which I said no and that was that. Clearly, not all RD offices got the memo (if there ever was a memo) which pretty much proves that the only people pushing this are businesses trying to sell you a service, the English speaking media and self appointed, often illegally operating online tax "experts".

In a week's time, I will be returning to Thailand for the first time since the Digital Arrival Card has been in existence. I live in Thailand on a Non O marriage extension so what "Purpose" should I select from the drop down menu? There is no "Family" option. Thanks in advance.

I've noticed this as well and I don't really have an answer as to why. Bangkok Bank now feel the need to carry out additional security checks is the only reason I can come up with. What I will say is that it doesn't really bother me whether money clears in my account in seconds or the next day.

To begin with, yes she did. I just thought she was trying to tell me something...

To be fair, I believe that those silly new forms are not new at all. They are the same ones that immigration used to fill in on your behalf and then give you the sign. I made a point of taking some home so I have them for next year. Anyone who has been doing this for many years will remember sitting with an immigration officer while they filled in lots of additional forms over carbon copy paper and then passed them over for you to sign.

A few weeks ago I watched a video on YouTube (Integrity legal) basically saying that Bangkok Bank had now started freezing foreigner's accounts after customers had requested immigration letters and statements. In one case for 6 months!

Congratulations. You've just made it painfully obvious that you have zero idea as to how Lazada works.

I'm presuming you've never been outside of Thailand? The horrific statistics don't lie.

I think you've nailed it. My 9 year old grandson asked me recently what phone I had when I was a kid and I replied 'One with a rotary dial and a curly cable'. He looked at me blankly so I had to Google it and show him a picture!

This was my experience transferring to Bangkok bank earlier this week. Also there was no drop down menu for the reason for the transfer. It just stated personal expenses with no option to change it.

Thank goodness you didn't put some of your pineapple on it!

I've just attempted to send GBP to Bangkok bank and for the first time Wise did not give me options to choose for the reason for the transfer. It just automatically selected personal expenses. Also, I will have to wait until tomorrow (Tuesday) for the money to arrive... Wise sent me an email confirming that they had received my money yet on the website it states that they are still waiting... This is becoming a bit of a shambles!

A UK bank account.

Interestingly, I'm just attempting to transfer my monthly income using Wise to my Bangkok account and they are saying Monday 19th at the earliest! This was Friday morning at the time of writing. Like many have said it normally takes seconds, or at the very least a few hours. And yes, the amount is under 50,000 baht. Perhaps I will leave it and try again on Monday...