MikeN

I had to obtain a TIN to keep my Aussie bank happy a couple of weeks ago, went to our local revenue "office" ( a couple of desks in the back corner of the District Office) and spoke to the women there. One is married to a german so was familiar with my banks demands for a Thai TIN. No passport or tabbian baan needed, just sign the form where indicated. Quick and easy, apart from her not being able to feed the tiny tax card into an A3 printer properly...think they wasted 3 or 4 cards before getting everything lined up properly! Did a quick calculation and told me I would pay no Thai tax, and if I just bring in my military pension then no need to submit a return as it's non-assessable income.

while I wouldn't feel sorry for them if it happened, I really don't think they could lose pensions for something they were never found guilty for. The Little Princess wouldn't have a clue, must have been speaking for herself instead of what she is told to say

yes, did a new TM30 but same office. And the email reminder has always been an automatic part of the system when you do it online...up till now.

my bank in Australia apparently sent me a letter 6 weeks ago demanding my Thai tax ID, still have not got it. Did get an email from them yesterday threatening to freeze my accounts if i don't send the form back ! Same as when they sent me a "know your customer" form last year...got it 2 days before the deadline, posted 6 weeks earlier and for some reason it had a German post office stamp on it !

"assigned to investigate"? Or that could mean that those 2 officials were assigned to an inactive post at the DLT so that they do not interfere with the investigation ...."to ensure the investigation proceeds smoothly".

If you report a new address to Immigration, would that reset the 90 days or is it still the same as before ? It is nearly 90 days from my last report and I have not received the usual email reminder. I changed my address about a month after that last report so just wondering if it has been reset or if there has been a glitch in the system ? I have checked the junk folder of my email and nothing there.

Hopefully the UN will say no to Thailand's attempt to get on the UN human rights commission .... and tell them why.

Did you mean which is a witch

Is this the same Thaksin as the convicted felon who is not allowed to be politically active as a condition of his parole ? You would think the S112 arrest would have reminded him to keep quiet about politics.

Until last week I never had problems buying and paying online with my Krungsri card but then my card was rejected by Supersports. "No big deal" I thought, it's probably a supersports thing and just changed the order to COD. Then on Friday I got an SMS from Krungsri telling me to register my card via their app for online shopping. OK, maybe the bank has changed something and I need to reset or something. So I follow their instructions to register but get a message saying that transaction is denied, please try again later. Tried later several times, each time no good. There was a call center number but I HATE talking to call centers...."dial 1, dial 2, please wait for the next available operator.....your call is important to us, please wait...etc etc" never mind any possible language problems. So today I went into the small local branch where I ended up with the new assistant manager who listens to my problem and then tells me "foreigner cannot pay online". WHAT ? The SMS is in English, why would they suddenly decide my money and card is no good for online use and send me a message to register the card? The staff here also told me that I needed to have a work permit to originally open the account so I didn't believe a word she said today. It was probably easier to bluster and make up some stupid reason than to lose face by admitting she didn't know. I guess I will have to ring up the call center, or go into one of the bigger branches in the city where the staff know what they are doing, but in the meantime has anybody suddenly had problems with paying online with a KRUNGSRI debit card ?

Norton seems to think that ASEANNOW is a "known malicious webpage" !

I wouldn't be surprised if the Statute of limitations expired for that long, long ago ! Probably about 6 months after he left judging by some of the other ridiculous time limits I've read about.

Thailand and having principles in the one sentence shows that you are easily fooled. the only thing that Thailand cares about is to continue milking all those Russian tourists for every baht possible.

There was....and the people conducting the poll were charged with 112. They were activists at the protests a couple of years ago so not surprising that they were arrested under any pretext. If I remember right, the girl that died on a hunger strike recently was charged with LM for conducting a poll about the royal motorcades.

2 extensions back Ubon office wanted copies of every Thai entry stamp, plus every visa. First time I've ever had to do everything. This year I went prepared with them, of course they didn't want them this time.