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My wife and I went into our local Bangkok Bank branch on Friday to collect the form to claim back the tax, and the staff told us that they wouldn't be issuing the forms for 2013 until January 2014.

Has anyone else encountered this, or is it a case of the bank staff not knowing what they're talking about?

By the way, on the same day we had no problem getting the form for an account we had at SCB.

Bought a Honda Jazz year ago May and received our cheque last September earlier then expected.....direct deposit 100,000 baht....thank you very much!

Are you sure?

I don't think any Jazz qualified for 100,000THB rebate.

Some pick ups did, but no cars.

You're perhaps a little mistaken.

I'm being polite.

If he's mistaken then so is the tax office, because we also received a check from govt. for 100,000 Baht after purchasing a Honda Jazz.

I don't know for sure, but I've heard it's just an internet hoax with effective editing.

Not sure of what would come of it, but did anyone call the police? I know I would if someone stole a couple hundred thousand from me.

Why Thais cover their heads with plastic bag instead of carrying umbrella?

Hate to say it, but more often than not it comes down to a lack of planning ahead.

With these increases, how much will the expressway tolls be to go from Sukhumvit to DMK?

Thanks.

No major flooding in Bangkok: BMA

Excuse me while I go and buy a boat.

Has anyone seen any good rates or promotions recently?

KTB has 14 months @ 3.30% and 37 months @ 3.7%

37 % for 37 months !!! If i put down a million bt deposit. I get 37,000 bt or 114,083 bt. Thanks in advance.

37,000bht,anually dont know is it paid on maturity if so that will be 114,083bht.wait for it minus 17,112bht tax.which you can claim back.

And the most you can claim back in a calendar year is 20,000 baht, right?

^ Thanks.

I also saw that Bangkok Bank has 2.875 for 10 months. But the offer expires today.

Has anyone seen any good rates or promotions recently?

I'm surprised this isn't a more active thread. If the protestors are successful at shutting down the Surat Thani airport, it will almost certainly spread to other airports in the south. The government will then need to respond with force and not just words.

Probike near Lumphini park. And they'll ship them to any of their affiliates so you can pick them up locally.

I don't have a link or anything, but I heard that a couple of protesters in Nakhon Si Thammarat got shot this afternoon.

If true, it's going to be hard for the government to play that down.

I think the owner or manager is aware of this thread, because he has ThaiVisa listed as a like on his Facebook page.

Well as far as khun kittiratt goes he was on cbnc the call a few days ago and a few things he said made my head hurt

He said thailand is not in a recession and the reason for the lower gdp numbers were as follows

thailand had a shortage of gas from Myanmar in april and dont forgot thai people had holiday so that was the reason for the low gdp numbers

When asked about the rice scheme he couldnt really comment

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I missed the CNBC appearance, but just found it online:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100986961

The first thing that I found interesting is that according to the deputy PM, Songkran is a two week holiday.

Hub of rice with no phosphine, fungus or alpha toxin!

Kittiratt says the outflow is over? Well, then I'm all in.

What could go wrong?

SET opened lower this morning and is still dropping. Down 2.50 % @ 1261

Yikes.

I imagine that this is not going to be a popular post, but considering how much alcohol directly and indirectly costs Thai society, the tax should be adjusted yearly for inflation.

Sorry to read this sad news. Best wishes to you and your family.

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I just looked at the website poster, and it says that the breakfast promotion is only offered from 5 PM - 10 PM.

Let's face facts here, people.

Asia, and particularly Thailand, has always been like this, long before any of us got here, and it will be when we're long gone. For all the comments of disgust and (dis)belief, about ruining Thailand's reputation, and all the other hokum spouted, we're all still there, preferring it to our own homelands, or we visit regularly and in many cases consider it our second home.

It's a sh*thole, and yet not one of us votes with our feet. That says far more about our lack of standards and backbone than it does about Thailand.

A bit heavy on the hyperbole, but there is a lot of truth in what you posted.

No, 25 points per week doesn't seem likely.

The SET has been getting knocked around the last few sessions. We're getting close the lows we hit a few months back, and I'm wondering if the floor will hold.

Sorry, I just checked the piece of paper hanging from my steering wheel, but it's too late to edit the above post.

It was 4 months and 3,000 kilometers ago that I changed the oil and oil filter.

The air filter has never been changed.

Does anyone know what the "element filter" is/does?

How about the washer drain (Engine)?