alanrchase

My bank never used to need the card to be activated until last year, and it can only be activated in a UK ATM for that bank (Lloyds). Didn't find out till after my sister had forwarded it to me. PIN numbers have also changed after being the same for 40 odd years. Had to cancel the card and get another one sent to her. She activated it and I told her to keep hold of the card this time. All the card details are on my bank app so don't really need the physical card with me.

If you think nothing has changed in decades then you have not actually been here for decades. Monumental changes since I first visited in 1988.

I bought one from Lazada awhile back, came with a zinc strip. Charged via USB. I used it to make a couple of battery packs for a cordless hedge trimmer. Picture below as the seller I got it from no longer exists. I also got the connecting strips from Lazada.

Thailand is no different to anywhere else. If I legally owe tax here I pay it, if not I don't. Do you pay tax on your substantial Thai bank accounts?

Just buy some toilet cleaner. ARO brand in Makro is 22% hydrochloric acid. Make sure you dilute it as at 22% it melts Scotchbrite. Vixol is a name brand at about 11% and Tesco had their own brand at about 14% I think.

Keep us informed of what they say. My birthday is in April as well and it would be nice to get the extra allowance for the year I turn 65 as well.

Where are you tax resident? CRS is partly to do with tax evasion. Your country of tax residency will be your main concern. If they think you are trying to evade tax and they are a CRS member, they could ask other CRS members for your financial information which may include the source of funds.

Not really true is it? I was stopped one day for licence check. Handed my licence over and the cop waved it at the queue of Thais waiting to be issued tickets saying, "the foreigner can get one so why can't you lot".

The problem with your picture of a mango blossom? The main problem is it is not a mango blossom.

Something in the electricity bill box. 20241118_081720.mp4 Couple of huskies at Cha Am.

Just ask for an FST for each transfer, they are free and are all the TRD want to see.

Do you have a bank account in Thailand? Do you get interest paid and withholding tax taken on that account? If so you are paying tax in Thailand on that assesable income and they should issue you a TIN. That was the reason I gave my local revenue department a couple of years ago.

Ratchaburi. Bangkok Bank have not stamped and signed any of the 12 month statements and immigration has said nothing.

Because my office accepts it without a stamp and signature.

Bangkok Bank do not stamp or sign the 12 month statement they provide for me. The statement is obviously printed by a business style printer and not a home printer.

Not saying you are arguing, saying I don't want an argument with the TRD. The money is interest. Yes, I could just tell myself the money transferred was pre 2024 but as I was paid interest from the account in 2024 how would I prove to the TRD that I transferred pre 2024 capital and not the interest earned? Maybe they would never ask but for this year I am happy to keep it simple. If there is more clarification about what they will and will not accept during the year I will adapt to any confirmed information.

I am not getting into arguments about whether interest earned was left in the account and savings from 2023 were transferred with the RD over 3,774 baht. I inherited some money from my grandmother years ago, I suppose I could argue that I have not spent any of that yet and am just starting to use it in Thailand. That would be tax free as well.

My accounts are tax free offshore.

The calculations were as follows Declared 454,575 Deductible expenses 100,000 Total 354,575 Thai bank interest 4,542 Total 359,117 Then 2×60,000 deductible for personal allowance for wife and I. Total 239,117 First 150,000 tax exempt Total 89,117 Tax bracket 5%. 5% of 89,117 = 4,455 to be paid Subtract 681 for withholding tax paid Total 3,774 tax to be paid.

No question about how they are allowed out of the country they committed the crimes in?

The income was processed under 1. 1. 40(1). That is for salary, wages, pension etc.. Theoretically it should be under interest I suppose but I am retired so it is like a pension to me. If anyone is interested I put it into the tax calculator below and the amount it gives agrees with what I paid if my Thai bank interest and withholding tax is not taken into account. The calculator has no way of entering that. https://www.uobam.co.th/en/tax-calculation I include a picture from the copy of my return for the skeptics.

Then why has the money spent on condoms for Hamas doubled under the Trump administration? Last week Trump said it was $50 million and yesterday he said it was $100 million.

Just been and done mine. Situation, one year extension based on retirement, 63, married to a 62 year old Thai, one adult child who is working, wife does not work, 454,000 transfered from an offshore account, source of funds declared as interest, no dual taxation treaties apply. Started at Bangkok Bank, asked for a withholding tax statement for myself and my wife. A bit of confusion because of the word "statement", their term is withholding tax receipt. Got mine, wife never keeps enough in her account to require one. Then requested a FST for the single transfer I had made in April last year, no issues getting that. If you haven't requested those documents before they were done at the teller desks in my branch. I tried at the sit down desks first which wasted a bit of time. Went off to the local revenue office on my own, wife went shopping and home. Handed the nice lady behind the desk my withholding tax receipt, FST, tax ID and passport. Explained in my poor version of Thai why I was there. She seemed up to date on the requirement for me to file. She took my wife's details from a picture of the ID on my phone. I explained the money was all interest on a bank account and she asked me to sit and wait. I tried to point out a transaction for my motorcycle insurance that I made with a foreign debit card, she nodded but I am not sure she understood, the information was on a Thai insurance app and I had no hard copy of the transaction. Provided phone number and cleared up a few questions she had regarding passport. Shortly after that she printed the documents, pointed out I had 3,774 baht to pay and asked me to sign. Paid with QR code via bank app and was handed the receipt. Asked if I could have a copy of the paperwork which was a mistake. They will do it but it is an "official" copy which requires more copies of passport, more signatures, stamps on each copy and a fee of 42 baht. Started in the bank at 10am walked out of the Revenue office at 12:00. Would have been 20 minutes earlier if I hadn't asked for the copy.

Had a similar problem with the BBL app a couple of years ago using Avast antivirus. Needed to deselect an option in Avast to get the bank app to work.

A 1992 2.4 litre Nissan Pathfinder. Nothing fancy about it and a bit underpowered compared to Land Cruisers, Patrols, Range Rovers and Cherokees. Used it mainly for fishing trips to the Red Sea. It could go anywhere and never got stuck. Pulled numerous more powerful 4X4s out of the sand and mud with it. Abused it for ten years and it never let me down.