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@RuamRudy I think you will find the details you need here: https://www.mrta.co.th/en/lost-and-found-centre/11131

You might want to look at a 1 year pre-paid sim card. Most companies sell them for something like 1,900-2,000 baht paid in advance for the year. It depends which sim you choose, but some will offer a set amount of data per month, while others (such as True) offer an unlimited data plan for the year (slightly more expensive). Some also offer free calls within the same network. Unlimited data is attractive - not because he needs unlimited, but because you won't get any surprises and also because there is no chance of him being out of data when he needs to contact you. In terms of making calls most people use Line app to call nowadays anyway, making the actual telephone a bit prehistoric. You can get these sim cards from Lazada or Shoppee.

No. A good translation company will: 1. Get the documents they need from you (copy of your passport, copy of your partner's ID card, the affirmation, etc. 2. Translate the affirmation document 3. Make an appointment for the legalisation at the MFA (or get an express appointment if time is short, at a cost) 4. Take the translation to the MFA and get the document legalised 5. Either contact you so that you can call into their office to collect everything, or post the documents back to you via EMS This is the easiest, because all you have to do is attend the translation office at the beginning, supply the documents and pay. Up to you if you attend again in person to collect the documents. Remember to take your passport and your partner's ID card with you when you attend the office. It will save all kinds of problems. Personally, I use Express Translation which are located at BTS Chit Lom. http://www.expresstranslationservice.co.th/cms.php?id_cms=6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/wVGBe3Uj6QLiC9d76 https://maps.app.goo.gl/NWXuG1vN45Ya2npo6

Have you turned on roaming on your mobile telephone? You will need to do this to receive TruemoveH SMS. It sounds illogical as you are within the UK and you are not roaming - but it is necessary. What I do is before I need to receive an SMS I turn off mobile data on my mobile phone, then I turn on roaming on my mobile phone. I request the SMS, then once I have received it I turn mobile roaming off on my mobile telephone and turn mobile data back on. It sounds the wrong way of doing it, but give it a try.

If 2 per cent is 500 billion baht then 64 per cent would be 16 trillion baht, or about USD460 billion. The US currently has something like 34 trillion dollars of public debt, which is something like 74 times the amount Thailand has. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just giving the numbers.

Maybe, but maybe not. There is always a lot of cash flying around at this time of year as debts are repaid, bonuses given, new investments made, loans given, etc. No. They would just be happy the deal has been successfully concluded. The AML reporting limit for cash transactions is anything over 2 million baht in cash.

No, the person who gave the deposit is not entitled to their deposit back. All you have to do is make sure that the condo is available to rent to them on the day they agreed to move in. If you keep your part of the agreement and they do not keep theirs then their deposit is forfeit.

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Yes, the school could sue you for damages in the Civil Court, and the damages would amount to the cost of hiring a replacement teacher to cover the contract you broke. Would they do so? In reality it would depend on (a) How much money was at stake as they would have to pay to hire lawyers and lawyers in Thailand are not cheap, and (b) Whether or not the school believed you were still in Thailand or liable to ever return to Thailand. If, for example, the school believed you had left Thailand and were never likely to return, there would be no chance of them suing you because they would be spending money with no chance of ever getting it back. Perhaps you had to return home to look after an aging parent with long term health issues. Who knows?

It depends on a number of things. First of all, are you in need of a work permit in Thailand? Would you like your newly created business to provide that? Secondly, do you have to issue invoices from a company registered within Thailand, or can you digitally invoice from outside of Thailand? The best financial solution for you would be to keep your consultancy offshore and send digital invoices payable by, for example, Stripe. This would lower your administrative overhead to as low as possible. As soon as you incorporate a Thai company you will be on the merry-go-round of monthly accountant fees, annual auditor fees, having to provide copies of your business registration, personal income tax, social fund, corporation tax, etc. It can get tedious very quickly. If you do register a business in Thailand it has the potential to supply you with an annual Non-B extension of stay for the purpose of working for a Thai limited company and a work permit, but these are complex to obtain and many Thai businesses pay for an agent to do this for them. If, on the other hand, all you had to do in Thailand was attend business meetings, you would not need a Non B visa or extension of stay, or a work permit. Technically, if you did your consulting work outside of Thailand you wouldn't be working in Thailand and you also wouldn't be paying Thai income tax. Of course many people consult in this way by typing reports on a laptop while they are within Thailand and absolutely nobody knows if they don't tell anyone. Absolute sticklers for rules might travel to, for example, Laos for a couple of days to write their report and press send to transmit the email while they were there. If it were my choice, I would legally structure everything offshore and save considerable administrative expense and taxation.

What the Revenue Department (RD) are asking for is very normal. Technically your wife does not have to supply any of this, however as a good landlord she really should, because if she doesn't she could cause the restaurant to go out of business and then she would lose what is probably a good long-term tenant. The RD want copies of your wife's documents as presumably she is listed as the owner on the title deed. Consider that the RD can get this information themselves extremely easily themselves if they have to. The land plot is viewable online using Land Department software, which gives the plot number. One email/phone call from the RD to the Land Department gives the RD the owner's name and ID number. One further email/call to the Department of Provincial Administration gives the RD your wife's house book details. The RD don't want to do any of this though. They want the business owner to bring all of the information to them so they have to do the least work possible.

Thank you once again for the update. As usual it is good to hear from you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all of your colleagues at the Embassy. Thank you for all the help and assistance you have provided British Citizens this year and the wider work that you have carried out.

You don't need your name on a tabien baan to register for social fund, to pay social fund contributions or to claim from the social fund. In the above situation you would already be a participating member of the social fund, it would just be a matter of changing your contributions from Section 33 to Section 39.

It is possible; voluntary contributions can be made under Section 39 of the Social Security Act B.E. 2533 (1990). You need to have been employed by a Thai company and have been paying social fund contributions for a minimum of 12 months before your date of retirement. You have 6 months after your date of retirement to successfully apply to your Social Fund office to make voluntary contributions. The monthly contribution/payment you must make is 432 baht per month, and it will need to be taken from your Thai bank by direct debit (which means you will need a Thai bank account). As long as you keep paying the contributions, your coverage will continue. This is especially helpful if you intend staying in Thailand in your older age as health insurance of any kind can be really expensive or even impossible to obtain at older ages. Just do not let your bank account run low by mistake and miss an automatic payment. It depends where you are, as some Social Fund offices are quite used to this scenario, but others will not have encountered this before and will mistakenly believe that a non-Thai can not voluntarily pay to maintain their social fund status.