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Yes, but they didn't do themselves any favours moving to Jomtien, many saw it as an additional hoop to jump through. Sri Ratcha has recently moved out of town but fortunately it has knocked some miles off my journey, rather than adding to it. The new regime seems a bit more organised, I was in and out in a few minutes for my 90 day.

There is a saying about summer and swallows. In 25 years I have come across a substantial number that have little idea on the visa requirements, with the view they don't need to know. That attitude combined with the perception that Thais cannot do anything right means there is a potential problem the moment they walk into immigration.

You are drifting away from the qestion that was originally asked about paying tax in Thailand. You said you were, probably because you have not paid in the UK. Chances are that most who have already paid in the UK are not liable again. It is all about circumstances and income from 2 different countries can hardly be seen as the norm. I should think that what concerns most is do they need to file or not, looks like the jury is still out on that.

Jomtien probably has the worst clientele of any immigration office in the country and cannot be taken as a benchmark. I am in the same province but use a different office and the difference is quite substantial. The combo requires the income and funds to be presented in a recognised manner, something that some seem to find difficult which in turn frustrates the IO.

If you haven't paid tax in the UK any remittance from there could be liable in Thailand.

I think what the poster actually meant was "Has anyone, other than those working here or with locally derived income, paid any tax?(having paid tax in another country)" So as far as your response goes, 7000 THB? and have you paid any tax elsewhere? At the end of the day it is all about personal circumstances.

I was on Ramipril when I first came here from the UK, i was getting 6 months prescriptions at the time and it wasn't too much of a problem. About 10 years ago the stopped that and about the same time following a check up i was advised to see a cardiologist. When i saw him I the medication was discussed and he advised to change to Anapril, a local generic. I have been on that ever since without a problem, copy of prescription from last week. I was 5mg Ramapril and that went to 20mg Anapril and you can see tablets 1 baht each. If wondering why they have a line though it is because I get a copy of the prescription to buy the Apixaban elsewhere.

Came across this all singing, all dancing one in Vietnam, more slots than the penny arcade. No English whatsoever, took a bit of time to get some money out.

You shouldn't be promoting that rumour, you would not be party to the detail where an application had been refused, only hearsay. It is up to individuals to check the situation applicable to them before deciding an approach. Some are paid directly from the pension provider and cannot add to the amount, then you have the issue if the office will accept a second payment or not. Those that use an embassy letter cannot add to the amount. An extension based on income, for whatever reason, may be the only option and advocating money in the bank is of little help in that respect. There may well be those that are unaware of the combo method and I know from experience it is a fairly straightforward process.

No it doesn't. Indeed the French are referred to as Farangses, which in modern times has been shortened to cover Europeans, not foreigners.

Some of us remember the last time a Labour PM jumped into bed with a US president, Putin was centre stage then as well. In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and genocide as a result of their roles in the Iraq War. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/28/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-bush-and-blair-guilty

Quite, for some reason the uninformed seem to think it means foreigner, but there is more foreigners in Thailand than there is farangs.

Indeed. The US population will come to regret the day they voted foe WW3.

President Trump has spent the day attacking Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a "dictator" and deepening the rift between the two leaders. His attacks came after Zelensky, reacting to US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia from which Kyiv was excluded, said the US president was "living in a disinformation space" governed by Moscow. Speaking at a Saudi-backed investment meeting in Florida, Trump said the only thing Zelensky "was really good at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle". The "dictator" slur quickly prompted criticism from European leaders including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who said "it is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelensky his democratic legitimacy". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjev2j70v19o Are we to believe that Mccarthy's mantra of "Reds under the bed" has actually been put to bed.

It all depends on the office, some will want more than just the statement. I have seen the IO go through my remittance advices and tick them off againt the statement. Never actually been asked the source of the funds.

Before they stopped the embassy letter I was on retirement extension and always a bit below the the 65K, just topped it up wih some money in the bank.

Exactly. When I was a young airman in the 60s I was stationed near Huntington and at weekends it was quite common to see youths beeing chased down the street. For some reason Chinese restaurants seemed to be the target of the day. Then came the fast food people where you pay before you get any food.

You seem to have missed the point. The comment on being "irresponsible" was in respect of National Insurance contributions. The UK retirement pension was born from the 1948 National Insurance Act and no government should have been allowed to reduce NI contributions. Why do you think the UK retirement pension is the lowest in the major economies.

So nothing to do with the author.

They have already been there and moved on, if you want to think they will go back up to you.

They already thought they could do that, but it cannot be done. Airline taxes apply to all passengers, they can only be varied by ticket class, not personal detail such as nationality. Attaching the payment to the online TM6 would resolve the problem in respect of air passengers, land borders may still be problematic. People should be thankful it is not being collected by accommodation providers like many other countries.

Is it DWP or pension provider, a significant difference in mentality. A couple of years ago mine from pension provider went astray and pension stopped. I phoned them up and asked if they would be sending out another one. The guy said " WHY? - are you calling from the grave."

Bit of a generalised and misleading headline. Water and sewage in the UK is regional and the rise will depend on where you live, there are no water bills in NI and in England the utility is privately owned. As for protesting, you should remember the people voted for a manifesto that advocated privatisation, making many of the general public shareholders for the first time in their life. People wanted a better service than the government was providing and that was always going to come at a cost. I am all in favour of public ownership, but it needs a government you can trust.

Canada is a different kettle of fish to other countries in that there is a reciprocal agreement in place. When the agreement was drawn up the Canadian pension wasn't portable so pensions weren't included. Since then the Canadian pension was amended and made portable, the Canadian government approached the UK with a view to revise the reciprocal agreement but the UK was not prepared to renegotiate. I think there has been more than one attempt to bring it back to the table.

In a word yes, I was clarifying how HMRC put into effect what you were trying to say. On first looking at the summary it can be a bit confusing as the first line is termed "Personal Allowance" but that shows zero, The £12,570 PA is on the second line "Additions", mine actually showed "£12,591 as they gave me an estimated £21 for bank interest. The third line is the "Deductions" which is your state pension, and the fourth line the numerical total. With my state pension being greater than the allowances the difference is then added to other income to be taxed. It would be wrong for anyone to say there is no tax on the state pension.