Peterw42

Yes, its been 800k for a long time, but the seasoning, post extension amount and minimum balance etc has changed without grandfathering.

What business is it of the government, what social media people use on their phone ? Is it only me, or do others see this as none of the governments business, absolute overreach.

Retire visa is less documents but more money in the bank to qualify. Marriage visa is more documents, less money in the bank and you can work.

I was down there on Monday, there is plenty of shade, seating, fans, even free cold water etc. For things like 90 day, res cert, there is no queue, you hand over your passport outside and return 2 hours later. a minimal queue to get inside to do other things.

OP, you appear to be unaware that the land office will insist that you sign a document and declare that you you have no interest in the house, its not a marital asset etc. So far as the bank and land office are concerned your wife will be funding and buying a house, not you. No matter what, your wife will own 100 % of the property and it wont be a marital asset divisible at divorce etc. As others have said, the usual company ownership route would afford you the protections you talk about.

That has been the commentary all along. Its not against the law to pay off hookers, IT IS AGAINST THE LAW to use election funds inappropriately.

Do the die hard trump fan boys realize, the charges are not really to do with payment to a porn star, the charges are to do with using election funds to make the payment.

OP, I can relate to your dilemma, bkk bank and trying to pay PEA. As you say, the banking software wont scan the QR code, PEA isn't listed as payee etc. At the moment I go through a ridiculous procedure using the PEA app, which takes me to a BKK bank login (doesn't log me in even though the app is on the same device), need find login details and enter, then it knows about PEA and the amount of the bill. And then the bkk bank insists on a OTP to pay the bill. I have just setup truemoney wallet, so will start to use that next month.

A lot of property for rent is on facebook marketplace and buy/sell groups. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PattayaCondosForSaleOrRent

Userfruct is about access to a property, not ownership of a property. If you sign a document saying the property is not a marital asset, then its not a marital asset and not split during divorce. Userfruct doesnt change your ownership Any contracts between husband and wife, ie: a userfruct, become null/void in the case of divorce anyway.

No, its not a fact, its an opinion.

I think if you looked up arbitrary comment in the dictionary, it would reference this post. Its a personal opinion. I would consider Clapton a way better guitarist, at least he steps out of pentatonic scales now and then, and manages to play without a tremolo most of the time. Clapton has sole, unique phrasing and is immediately identifiable, Beck is very good but mostly just noodles around in pentatonic scales with a tremolo, not much that is uniquely different.

Any of the options on the invoice involve a Thai bank. The Condo office would also accept cash. So long as you get the account details (swift code etc), you could transfer money from UK.

OP, google lists things that appear on the internet, if the goods, service, product have never appeared on a website, buy/sell site etc, it wont appear on any google search. Also, there are several tools and advanced search options on google where you can filter results, specify language, location etc. If you are shopping for a specific product then maybe Lazada or similar would be a better place to look.

How and where did you write that reason ? My bank doesnt even give an option to write your own reason, they just allow to choose a reason from a pull down menu, (wages, tax, gift etc)

As I said, I have purchased 3 condos, and never specifically written any property buying statement on any transfers, and never had a problem getting FETs. In fact, I couldn't write a statement even if I wanted to, when I transfer my bank gives the option to choose 3-4 choices from a pull down menu and thats it, no choice to write your own reason. If I recall correctly, the bank actually asks and then adds the condo details when the produce the letter/FET. ie: (condo 123, acme condos). They dont get it from the original transfer record.

The stated purpose of a money transfer is a Bank of Thailand, anti money laundering requirement, as it is with most countries central banks. There is no law that says you can only spend money on what reason you said at time of transfer. That reason usually doesn't even appear on your bank statements. The land office just want proof of foreign currency, they dont insist on a statement of intent. I have purchased 3 condos and never put "buy a condo" on any transfers.

Yes, the bank should be able to use any of those past transfers to do an FET.

The condo was in Jomtien, I sold it to a neighbor, I sold it for the same amount I paid for it 8 years ago, mentioned I wanted to sell on a Monday, and we were at the land office the next Monday completing the sale. The actual sale/ title transfer can be done in a few days. Finding a buyer may be different, but everything sells quickly with the right asking price. If a property takes time to sell, its because the seller isn't being realistic about the price.

No, the land office doesn't check the "Purchase of Property" description. I have used the 800k retire funds to get an FET in the past. The land office just wants to see a letter/FET saying X amount of foreign currency entered Thailand, in the name of foreigner etc. The land office isn't looking at the entry on your bank statement, they look at the FET the bank produces, and the bank will usually ask the condo details and include it in the letter/FET.

Yes, you can, in theory, do multiple transfers and the bank can make one FET. But why confuse the issue, just do one transfer a week before you are ready to buy. Also, for large amounts it works out better just to do one SWIFT transfer (a one off low fee no matter the amount) rather than the wise percentage fee multiple times. the one off fee is lower than any difference in exchange rates over time. Also swift transfers are international transfers, so no drama chasing up FETs for wise domestic transfers.

As above, most landlords will be private and wont have credit card facilities. If you rent through an agent, and they take cards, they will most likely add on the 2-3% merchant fee.

How do you tax a youtuber being paid into a bank account outside Thailand. The ongoing arguments about youtube is work, taxing youtube etc, is a moot point if the money isn't entering a thai bank account. If they start taxing thai based channels, then people will just move the channel, and where the income goes to.

There is no need to do installments, a transfer is a transfer, 1m, 10m or 100m all gets processed the same. There would be a fixed fee for each transfer, so less transfers means less fees. Also larger amounts with a fixed fee, can end up being better that wise as the wise fee is always bigger if the amount is bigger.

True has two different products, cable TV via coax cable, and IPTV via the internet. The coax option is slowly being replaced with internet options.