LatPhrao

I want to send a private message to a moderator. How is that done? I want to understand why the post was removed. thank you.

And yet they're routinely 'ignored' by the legal Thai entities and visa agents, so what's your point?

This is not meant to be a snide remark, but doesn't this make the 65K baht / month method a ruse - and a useless one as a stand alone means of getting a visa? Leaving an applicant with just two options - 800K baht then 400 K baht or an agent visa?

What if instead, during the 15 months of non o and visa, you have been banking in by foreign transfer 65K + monthly, meeting that requirement for a year plus and you want to renew and apply without the agent. How and when to proceed?

While it's useful to get the numbers on how badly we're being screwed for wine in Thailand, the topic and any rationale other than pure greed puts me in a rage. Several years ago when imported wine became widely available and restaurants began offering wine by the glass - it was Thais who were filling the restaurant seats and enjoying wine! Then they laid on the taxes. Or did the military coup and the overthrow of democracy in Thailand come first. I forget. I love Thailand and thankful to be living here, with this single exception which I hate - the insane price of imported wine, the necessary lies by wine producers who are obliged to suggest / insinuate that their wines are 'fruit blended' to evade the taxes. It's a pantomime of the truth. And a prime example of deluded thinking and ends to just the means of greed. I love wine yet I refuse to pay the outrageous prices, so I hold my own tastings of the 399 thb wines to find decent wine for the table, And there are some! Surely someone in government can see that changing the taxation, lowering the retail price of wine would creative a tidal wave of income greater than what they're able to suck out of their current schemes. One might wish that the marijuana phenomenon could lead to rational changes for wine. Meanwhile, nothing but contempt for Thailand government's wine taxes. End of sermon.