Advocate

On 5/4/2021 at 8:17 AM, damian said:

I have assets in Australia and derive benefits from them. I think the difference is I declare the benefits and lodge a tax return in Aus each year via my accountants. I am a non resident for tax purposes and have been for the last 27 years and I get taxed as such i.e. no free threshold when the return is processed.  That stops when I spend more that 180 days in a financial year is Aus. and become a resident again.  

You miss the point of ATO actions in respect of foreign income. The objective of all tax law and regulations is to capture foreign earnings of Australians in the Australian tax net.

Around 2009 the tax law was changed to exclude the 90 day provision which previously applied whereby Australians were previously exempt from Australian tax on foreign earnings if they were out of the country for 90 consecutive days. This no longer applies.

There is a precedent case which is similar to Damian's whereby the ATO won in court and taxed the foreign earnings of an Australian expatriate on the basis of his interests, bank accounts, and benefits derived from Australian citizenship made his foreign earnings taxable in Australia despite his overseas residence.

The question of foreign residence is not a simple one and the ATO will use the answer to the question on their forms as evidence you deliberately lied. Then they will magnify the penalty they apply.

Anybody who believes any ATO officials are pleasant, ethical people is deluded. They are psychopaths.

The kitchen taps and many other taps in the house have strainers which clog up with debris over the years. Remove the strainers and clean them. That sounds more like your problem. I have experienced such a problem previously which was fixed by removing and cleaning strainers.

Here's a youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_DaEA5UtqY

15 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Still waiting for my approval back by post.

Posted it on 05th of April, checked yesterday and they got it on 07/04

Mine took >30 days.

18 hours ago, JRG23 said:

 

Why does Thai immigration continue to require me to report my wherabouts every 90 days when I have a BOI work permit, pay taxes and go through all manner of hoops to do my business here in Thailand??? 

Because you are a Farang.

It is still broke and that's no joke.

90-day online reporting website still dysfunctional 20210414 14:53

Breaking news: It's still broke.

90-day online reporting website still dysfunctional 20210413 10:51.

Unfortunately real news which I hope we will hear one day is that it is working.

8 minutes ago, sanooki said:

Does anyone know if they fixed their computer to allow those on renewed passports, which are different from the passport (numbers) on their arrival cards, to do online 90-day reports?

I and some others reported that we were able to do an online report in those circumstances after having a new passport after the last entry.

However, I would recommend you do a mail-in report 15 days prior to report date prior to trying the 90-day online report in case the online report doesn't work again or the site is defective as it often is.

20 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

That could be because all hands are on deck to repair the buggered up website. "Many hands make light work" as they say. Or is it "Too many cooks make a boIIocks of the broth"?

Indolence and dereliction of duty are more likely causes. Too many bollxxxx is more likely than too many cooks.

3 hours ago, Kristine_M said:

I have just done mine online, but when I clicked on "send" I didn't get any confirmation message. Email confirmation would be ideal. I will send my documents by post just in case.

They are very strict about the 15-day before report date requirement for mail-in date. You might have missed it.

They have also been taking 30+ days to return receipts for mail-in 90-day reorts.

It must have been a dream. I just checked the website and it is still reporting:

"Failure of Web Server bridge:

No backend server available for connection: timed out after 10 seconds or idempotent set to OFF or method not idempotent."

The 90-day online reporting is dysfunctional still 20210412 11:10

The site has been dysfunctional since February 17 2021 which is 55 days.

The IB is withholding the truth on this dysfunctionality. It cannot possibly be due to maintenance.

On 4/7/2021 at 10:40 AM, lopburi3 said:

It has been 10 baht for many, many years.  And my experience last year was they has stopped returning passport copies (they had been returning for at least a decade).  This is Bangkok office.

1. 20210410 15:20 90-day online reporting still not working.
2. It has not been 10 Baht for "many, many", years. The last submittal was my first 10 Baht self-addressed envelope submittal.
3. My last 90-day report receipt in April this year is the first time ever they have sent back passport copy documents to me. Usually it is just the receipt.

Most of the Thaivisa respondents on this subject are sheep who just accept, cheerfully, and without complaint whatever dysfunctional and unacceptable services the IB delivers.

On 4/5/2021 at 10:42 AM, Advocate said:

20210405 90-day online reporting still not working.

20210407 90-day online reporting still not working.

90-day by mail report receipts running at ~ 35 days after mail-in date. That is if the applicant receives a receipt at all. IB has increased self-addressed envelope stamp amount to 10 Baht. The reason appears to be because they are sending passport page copy documents back to the applicant. Another irrational and unnecessary act.

20210405 90-day online reporting still not working.

2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

What is the "old 90 day report"? Your previous next report date? You're supposed to mail that in, or was this a copy?

 

 

I get a lot of mail addressed in English. And many of us have recevied our next 90-day report date slips by return mail. Seems odd that just now it is a problem for so many? Not buyin' it.

 

 

I receive all my English addressed mail with no problems. The only ones I don't receive are the IB 90-day reporting receipts because the IB often doesn't send them.

There is much more to this issue than meets the eye. There is something devious happening which will probably result in more and higher fees to foreigners and more inconvenience and lies from the IB to frustrate foreigners.

Evidently the buildings at MTT were built some time ago and just happened to be available for 90-day reporting. I suspect that the 90-day reporting was moved to MTT because the buildings had been planned and built and not for any reason of efficiency or convenience. If the IB was really interested in 90-day reporting they would ensure that the website worked and was available at least 99.9% of the time. 90-day reporting is a bogus requirement to inconvenience foreigners.

Too many people are justifying the IB behavior when the IB performance is just unacceptable.

The document requirements of pages for passport and arrival card for mail-in 90-day reports is nonsensical when the same documents are not required for reporting in person or online or for 90-day reporting by persons other than the passport-holder.

The document requirements of pages for passport and arrival card for extensions of stay are also nonsensical when the IB already have those documents on the computer network.

2 hours ago, mokwit said:

 

This post also evidences that the 1178 telephone help service is unhelpful. All they ever tell you to do is go to the IB office.

The only successful operation that the IB runs is collecting money from foreigners. Everything else is bogus.

5 hours ago, sussex said:

What's the current delay on receiving postal 90 day reports back from Chaeng Wattana? Posted mine on 8 March (arrived 9 March, due 23 March), still nothing back, it's exactly 3 weeks now. Thanks!

I have been waiting 33 days since mailing, 13 days past reporting date.

6 minutes ago, JohnOFphon said:

Monday after next will be over one month since I mailed in my 90 day report. If it doesn't come in the mail before then....I think slim chance...I will have to go to MTT.

While there I will ask when the online site will be back up. 

The way it looks now....10 days from now...it will still be down....

Oh....if it does come in the mail....I report that.

20210325 10:06 90-day online reporting still not working.

Return of receipts of mail-in 90-day reporting not working either as many are reporting that receipt not received after 1 month from mail-in date.

The stamp requirement for return mail was recently increased to 10 Baht from 5 Baht. Immigration officials stealing stamps from mail-in 90-day reports could be a lucrative business at 10 Baht a time and four sessions a year.

20210324 16:30 90-day online reporting still not working.

Awaiting appointment of new fortune-teller to Bangkok IB before IB releases new predictions..