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1 hour ago, thequietman said:

If you're Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish - then you are damn out of luck. According to the document only England is included. ????

I suppose that they consider Scotland, Wales and northern Ireland as colonies of England. Aren't they ?

A number of condo office is doing the online registration of TM30 for their building tenants or even owners . One of my friends is paying 200B for this 2mn service in Pattaya. My condo is in Bangkok.  

In my condo I have been member of the board for years. I want the office now to apply to be able to make the online application for all foreign tenants and owners. I want it to be charged so that their is a money receipt and that the office is 'motivated'.

So the question is how much are you charged by your condo ?

Would it be possible to get a complete explanation of why the two Burmese cannot be the culprits based on facts. Even my Thai friends believe that they are scapegoats. But this is mainly based on the fact that Thai police is hated by foreigners and thai alike because of corruption and abuse and on the fact that since the murder authorities so much wanted the Burmese migrants to be the murderers.

However personally I find difficult to believe that the Thai police is at the level for a fabrication of this dimension . So many people have been involved including not only policemen but forensic personal and external laboratories. How can they pay all of them. The risk would be too high and the coordination too sophisticated.

I live without working in Thailand for 13 years and have two condos , one in pattaya and one in Bangkok. I am usually going back and forth between them but I am now analyzing the possibility to let the one in Bangkok. Other owners in the building for similar units let theim for between 60 000 to 75000 baht per month. (90 percent of tenants are Japanese or Korean).

Some friends tell me that most people in thailand wouldn't declare and then wouldn't pay taxes.

What would you recommend to do , declare or not? I have no income and never have declared anything today.

In case I declare, what is considered income? The amount paid by the tenant or can condo fees be deduced ? Can the agent fees be deduced also?

Before applying the tax rule what is the deduction 10 or 30 %, it is not clear to me.

In addition if I use external service to do the tax return filling for me how much would it cost ?

I like to have the opinion of experienced owners

Sure this question have been ask before but cannot find answers.

Thanks for your answers in advance, it will help me to take a decision.

I have tested Internet speed from my bangkok True 20Mb cable to various countries and cities around the world and it appears that singapore is by far the best and that the speed to europe would not allow any streaming of TV. I have thus taken today a vpn service for a two days trial. And the results are extremely good. I connect to the server in singapore and now :

-I can download from usenet at 16 Mb/s !!! Never had this speed before, the max was around 4Mb/s only.

-I am now able to see real time streaming TV from France by using a VPN within a VPN. Although I am not sure it is the most elegant solution at least it works. The first VPN is connected to Singapore. The second one is operated from the same computer on a virtual (vmware) windows 7 machine and is connected to a second VPN service located in France in order to have a local IP. In order to do that you need to pay for two VPN services.

I am very excited by this solution that bypasses True limitations but I am not sure how long True will let me download from Singapore at 16Mb/s.

Therefore, you get faster than light ping times

Absolutely right , I just get a 5ms record ping time from bangkok to paris . That makes the speed of light well above 400 000 km/s. And I just arrive here after googling to understand why!

I am experiencing extremely low speed when dowloading from france. I have a cable true online supposed to be 20mb/s -I have this speed in thailand but only around 200kb/s for Europe. A few months ago I had ten times better.

I just wonder if it would be of any help to complain.

I'm on the True cable 20Mb/2Mb plan also here in western Bangkok...been on it going 14 months...been rock solid. Lots of different servers in Europe so the core problem in your case could be the particular server in Europe you are connecting to. And generally when I do speedtest to European speedtest.net sites I get lower speeds and higher ping times than going to U.S. sites...and the U.S. is farther away....guess it has something to do with the routing...sometimes I almost think the connection out of Thailand is routed east to the U.S. and then on to Europe where that internet road trip is like going two-thirds of the way around the world...where if they went west to Europe it would only be one-third around the world...but they probably do go west to Europe and it's just slower/more hops to go through for whatever reason.

If not already tried, you might want to give one of the True proxy server settings a try. Varies how you set it up in your browser/network settings, but the two True proxy sever settings are below. Using the proxy sometimes can speed things up and eliminate access problems to certain sites. During my first 6 months or so with True cable I would use the proxy setting a lot because I had problems accessing certain U.S. govt web sites without using the proxy or VPN; but that problem just seemed to go away late last year. Plus the proxy use to give faster browser surfing. But now, use of the proxy don't seem to make much of any difference, but sometimes on those days when True seems to be running slower use of the proxy does help...sometimes it don't. And for whatever reason, use of the proxy prevents skewing of/bogus Speedtest.net results as shown below in a couple Speedtests to Frankfurt and London....use of the proxy don't slow down the speedtest.net results it just forces valid results somehow.

"proxy.trueinternet.co.th" Port 8080

or

"proxy.asianet.co.th" Port 8080

From Bangkok To Frankfurt with Proxy Turned On (Probably Valid Results)

From Bangkok to Frankfurt with Proxy Turned Off (Bogus, Faster-Than-Light download speed and ping time results)

From Bangkok to London with Proxy Turned On (Probably Valid Results)

From Bangkok to London with Proxy Turned Off (Bogus, Faster-Than-Light download speed and ping time results)

Bangkok to Bangkok (get the same results with Proxy Turned Off or On...Valid Results)

Thanks, with the proxy it seems that I can measure the real speed ; using the same True service as you, I get for Paris 215ms ping and a speed of 0.6 mb download. That is ridiculously small. To california Palo Alto it is 7 times better, but I have no need for it!

Therefore, you get faster than light ping times

Absolutely right , I just get a 5ms record ping time from bangkok to paris . That makes the speed of light well above 400 000 km/s. And I just arrive here after googling to understand why!

I am experiencing extremely low speed when dowloading from france. I have a cable true online supposed to be 20mb/s -I have this speed in thailand but only around 200kb/s for Europe. A few months ago I had ten times better.

I just wonder if it would be of any help to complain.

The other alternative is just put the cash into some sort of trust where you can only draw money out in a limited amount.

Where can I find a trust like that?

Thank you for all the answers

I will certainly not put all the eggs in the same basket . CNPRF might be one of the eggs. However I was more looking in a kind of mutual fund which would probably have an average return but would carry less risks.

Thank you for your answers . The investment is around four million bahts.

CPNRF might be a good idea but the volatility is too high -6.5 to 13 in the last 6 years.

A thai friend of mine has just inherited from his farang partner a few million bahts

The money is still in Europe but I believe that it would be better to move it to Thailand.

He will do what I recommend to him as per the wish of the deceased.

But I don't know, neither does he know what to do with the money here.

Can you recommend a long term fund from which can be withdrawn automatically a fix sum say 15-20000baht per month, even if it is more than the income, until the capital is depleted.

It would be even better if the capital cannot be easily available.

I once used a dedicated electronic dictionary a long time ago. Then i switch to pda with a palm equiped with an excellent dictionary. And now for two years i am using a windows mobile telephone htc 3450; now only 10000 baht. I purchased the Merriam webster Unabridged excellent english to english dictionary . .html for 62 dollars. And Thai english dictionary from lingvosoft for 35 dollars only .With a little more money you can have a phrasebook with prononciation in thai. I am using the lingvosoft dictionary almost everyday.

This is quite an interesting matter,

I don't see many people pretending to be above level 7!

I would put myself at level 6 or 6.5

I have PO 6 certificate (four years ago) but that would probably correspond to level 4 or 5 only.

However I pretend to be fluent because i speak fast and i undestand everything in everyday's life

The Bangkok post artickes says "Regarding voting rights for the juristic person, any representative can vote on behalf of a maximum of three units"

I would like to have this double checked and if we should read three owners instead of three units.

During my condo last general assembly, the former developer still controled everything with more than a hundred units. I can't believe he will be limited in voting rights.