KimSamui

Calculate on this Link: http://www.dutycalculator.com

Good link to give the OP an idea, but OP don't forget to add a bit more money for this and that and also maybe a lot more of both

Yes, the major problem is going to be the product value. You may think it is (e.g.) 15k, if customs declares it is 25k, that's the way it is.

No. If you have a certified value report from export Country theres no Problem. But be aware, the Import Tax will be as high and up as the worth of the Car.

Strangely, I don't believe that will be the BIGGEST problem. The amount of Duty, excise etc is given, and yes it will an unwise financial move.

You will not pass the required tests, emission etc. to make it registrable despite what any Duty Calculator says.

This is where bribes have flourished. The best sometimes you can achieve is a numberplate, but no book. The value of your vehicle is severely compromised.

The process is not to be relied upon under any circumstances. Any talk to the cotrary is by people that have not done things as this personally before.

I have had several people referred to me by a Thai friend with a major Motorcycle shop in Samui. He does it strangely to appear to help, but the answer he know is all bad news.

Welcome to Thailand.

Hi,

I did this a few years ago from Australia importing a motorcycle and a car. never was able to get a blue Book for the car, bike was correctly registered but i was lucky.

Notably I had all documents, and my Thai wife was returning to Thailand to reside being the owner of the Car.

Problems exist from all areas of the process, even your Thai import agent.

My opinion it is neither cheaper or worth the risk of dealing with anything related to an import in Thailand.

Can we round up all our Soi dogs and send them over

Sick joke

Stuffing things in suitcases suggest you intend to bring it with you on your flight from the US . Unless you are very short of money why not get international removals to ship a crate of stuff for you .

I sent a crate of useful belongings , clothes etc. from Italy before coming , later another containing books from England . You may have to pay a little tax on arrival , I paid Bt2000 , then the transport to your home .

You were lucky. Moving here with my thai wife they charged us 45K THB there were two crates of supposedly exempt household stuff...beware.

I have had an experience where I walked into the Local police Station in Lamai, Koh Samui blood pouring from my head. The Police summonsed the perpetrator, my EX, and following her giving the excuse that I attacked her despite no visible injuries, the Police let her go and no action.

Thai justice

You need to change the brown (police) book with the police which will issue a letter to the immigration (the immigration is UNDER the police by hierarchy).

You then also need a consent (form with the Civil Registrar/Amphur) by the head of household to allow you to be entered on the new blue house registrar. Together with the present (old) house registrar, the consent form of the head of household of the new blue book and the letter of the police you then get transferred from the old to the new blue book.

The yellow book is a recent invention to complicate matters and has no real value/use and is for "alien" without residential status. Moving you from blue to yellow is definitely wrong - but then as mentioned - the whole procedure is so COMPLICATED that the underlings behind all those tiny government desks simply cannot cope.

My advise is:

- go to the police and inform them about your change of address

- get them to issue a letter (similar to the one you got when you were granted the resident status)

- get the consent form of the blue house registrar head to put you onto the new blue book

- see the Amphur with the police letter, consent form, the old as well as the new blue house registrar

- be patient, have a coffee in between and see these people only after 2.30pm; when the usual crowd is gone

- put your feedback here on TV for future references

Years ago I thought getting my Yellow Book was a testing complicated procedure.

So fed up with this stuff now after many years. I know now PR is not for me.

Koh Chang has everything you are looking for, but is rather like Samui was 20-30 years ago. I prefer Samui because of all the facilities, but would avoid Chaweng and Lamai. There are some lovely parts in the North between Maenam and Nathon, and again Southwards from Nathon, which are completely unspoilt yet near a beach, some with reasonable waves depending on the time of year and how far the sea goes out!

Maybe I am wrong but i have not seen anyone surfing in Samui before?

I bought a trailer in January from Thai Respo, four months later no book, no plates, and can't get a response to my enquiries.

Exactly the same for me. You are not alone.

To give them credit,

I did get an email from the office manager today explaining that the import documents were a problem and it delayed the registration process, but wold be complete end of May or June. Progress..I hope.

JMR and Kim samui ....where in Thailand? I can hazard a guess at Kim lol. Please post up when you finally have that stamped white plate and good luck you two ...its a mare eh.

The Thai Respo people are in Samutsakorn, which is just outside Bangkok.

It could be a problem with the people getting their books, but they just don't answer the phone or emails.

The old Thai way of "Once they Have got your Money"applies to most business here.

Thailand has gone backwards, not forwards, with most everything. You can go blue in the face trying to speed things up, but it doesn't make much difference.

I bought a trailer in January from Thai Respo, four months later no book, no plates, and can't get a response to my enquiries.

Kind of interesting.

I just returned from Pranburi area. It is absolutely beautiful. Good roads, lovely hotels and laid back bars/restaurants.

The national park, Sam Rai Yot is geographically so different from anywhere else i have seen in 6 years of travels in Thailand. We loved it!

4 of us traveled in a rented 4 x 4 and went all over the region.

But this is Thailand and as well as having a great time, this happened to mar the experience . . .

On the way we stopped at Hua hin and I noticed Thai men staring in a hostile way, never experienced this before.

We booked a hotel called BaanBali near to the beach at Pranburi.

The GPS directed us to the hotel (we booked on Agoda) and in we went . . . . the girls noted the sign said BaanBali Blue/Blue sky but being Thai said nothing!

The girl came out to meet us and gave us our keys and we took our luggage to the rooms.

A guy in a BMW pulled in behind our vehicle and after 5 minutes my friend told me that this guy was the boss and had said, " I no hab Agoda, you pay!"

He said there was no other resort nearby at first but then said that in fact our hotel was further down the road.

We apologised and began loading our bags again when he said, " you no go must pay for clean room, 1000 baht" even though we had been in the room for less than 5 minutes and not touched anything.

He kept on saying " you pay" even though we told him, in Thai, we were sorry, we are leaving, the room is not dirty, we are not paying"

I was driving, so last into the car, and he put his hand on the door to prevent me from opening it. He was unsuccessful.

I brushed him away and we left . . he thought he had blocked us in but I drove the truck over the dirt area and onto the road.

A pleasant interlude to our holiday. I guarantee that had we been tourists who don't know Thailand a little he would have become even more threatening . . . .and this on the heels of the recent beatings of the family just up the road in HH.

This would just not happen in the west.

After finding our hotel BaanBali resort (not recommended) we stayed for a couple of days but it was very basic and way overpriced. The pool at night was full of 15 yr old Thai lads drinking beer who began to get to rowdy and encroached on our space until we told them to ***** off.

The morning we left we were woken at 7.30 by Isaan music playing so loud the walls and windows shook. There were 8 0r 9 Thai men pissed up on whisky by the pool while loads of kids played in the water . . great example!

Now it was a Thai style place and it's their culture (if one can refer to it as such) but really???

We were leaving anyway so did not bother to ask them to turn the music down . . . .it would have led nowhere but to violence anyway, I watched the Thai apes playing the music for a while and could see their hostile attitude. I sometimes think Thailand would be a better place if it had been colonised by the British or French long ago.

Arriving back in Bangkok and traveling up the Sirat expressway a cop jumped in front of us at a tollbooth and made up a story about us changing lanes blah, blah . . . .I just gave him 500 baht (I had nothing smaller) to ******off and leave us alone, which he did!

This was just a typical holiday . . .we did not instigate or look for trouble. We all love Thailand but this shit is growing tired . . . after 6 years I have no patience left to spare.

If you are going to tell me my attitude sucks or that I should go home or some such apologist BS, save your energy . . .

This is the real truth behind the smiles and the holiday marketing.

We can take care of ourselves but I feel very sorry for females or newb tourists who come here and experience even minor nonsense like this.

This is a growing symptom of Junta rule + Thainess unchallenged.

I felt as though I was reading my own post reading your experiences.

Yes, i am staying in the Pranburi area along the Beachfront and, Yes it is infested with drunken aggressive Thai's who speed around and play unbelievably loud music all night.

It is getting worse month by month here.

The police seem to own several of the businesses along the beach, including taxi services, and massage shops.

The area at night become a raceway for the locals also.

The proximity to the Army bases here may have some affect on the the local psyche, because this place has a bad attutude in some areas to foreigners.

PS. I had the same experience with the Cops on the Bangna Expressway, cop jumps at toll booth entry out and bingo I am down 1000THB.

Seriously looking at other places in time to spend my life. Been here 8 years its now just a rip-off, and the the local people are worse.

It's looking worse daily.

In our current state of affairs (call me paranoid, I don't care), the tone and message is foreigners are meddlers (maybe some are) and that can lead to an open season on expats for thugs and simple minded gangsters. The message from above needs to change.

Agreed. The Nationalist tone of the the current regime, and Xenophobia are making things worse. Its easy to play the blame game with foreigners and distract the general population with the true causes of Thailand's ever-increasing failures.

Too many young Thai's along the beachfront of Paknampran to Khao Kalok Drunk, Racing motor bikes, and staging loud parties all night.

It is not such a good place when you can walk around safely.

If it can take 737 / A320 size and the airport is not used why expand the airport - just throwing money away

What i would like to see is a commuter service to Suvarnabhumi.

It is ridiculous to put Tourists, or Expats through a 4 hour , 230km ordeal by road to Hua Hin/Paknampran in a Camry which possibly costs as much as much as their international flight.

If Thailand wants quality Tourists they had better step up.

Take the Hua Hin Airport Bus which has been operating for more than 2 years.... Tickets are around 300 Baht.

Not for me, I want something better, as do many others.

Ah! good, the airport is in operation?

What a joke.

I think HH / CM, it is not every day.

I think they use it mainly for light aircraft training, so too Pranburi. So it's largely the military using it. Now that's no surprise.

If it can take 737 / A320 size and the airport is not used why expand the airport - just throwing money away

What i would like to see is a commuter service to Suvarnabhumi.

It is ridiculous to put Tourists, or Expats through a 4 hour , 230km ordeal by road to Hua Hin/Paknampran in a Camry which possibly costs as much as much as their international flight.

If Thailand wants quality Tourists they had better step up.

I normally do not post anything on TV but I can't stand it anymore ... You definitely can start a business in Thailand and own 100% percent of it even as a non-American! I suggest you talk to a lawyer instead of asking on a forum such as this one...

How...pray tell.

Simply create a foreign company for which you will need 3 shareholders which all must be non-Thai but you can give yourself 99 % of all shares which is effectively the same as owning 100 %. The whole process takes only a couple of working days, is easy and costs approx. 10k THB for each million of registered capital. I could go deeper into this and explain how to proceed for each different kind of business due to the foreign business act but that's a lot of topics to cover and I don't even know what kind of business the OP wants to start.

Sounds like Theory, and not actual current practice, Why you say? I know from 8 years of multiple Thai Company operations.

For Starters you will need Thai Nominee shareholders which are illegal. Not Non-Thai as you say. Perhaps you should get better advice because there is no way you have a Thai Company based on this structure.

Why do people keep saying that having a Thai company is so hard?

Surely if you have a good business, adequate funding and you know what you are doing it should be no different operating a company anywhere.

Granted if you are just doing to try and get a visa and your 'business' isn't actually viable, or you have no prior experience owning or operating companies, then perhaps it isn't a good idea.

But what about people who are starting real companies employing 20-30 people to start and expanding to 50 or more in the first 12 months?

Are you sure your not a troll, or is it April 1st all over again?

i would advise to anyone to avoid starting a company in thailand. having said that i have one. i am a 49% share holder, my lawyer is 25% and the mother of our 2 kids is 26%. my company does not have alot of assets and the mother from my kids has a vested interest in keeping the company running as she gets her monthly sallary from it. the lawyer gets quite a bit of work from doing the books etc so hopefully they wont make problems. again, i would strongly advise you dont start a company in thailand. also you should be budgeting for a minimum of 150K thb per year for your work permit and visa. that is a bare minimum, and does not take into account additional payments to the police or immigration.

Not to mention the probing you will endure at Immigration simply following the regulations.

I personally have been interviewed at length in their Trans National Crime Center for lodging a TM 30 in good faith.

We are no longer welcome here.

No, It is not that simple. The Thai's will have control over the Company and can do as they wish.

You need shareholder protection. To achieve this find a reputable lawyer.

Strictly the use of Thai's as nominees is illegal, and a hot topic right now with the DBD.

Of all the High speed projects Hua Hin has the best chance of profitability.

Ridiculous, dangerous 4 hr drive in mental traffic. Car services are pricey too for such a short journey.

It would be nice if they would do this in Phuket, too.

Please don't forget Paknampran to Khao Kalok Beachfront, it is party time most nights and groups racing at all hours.