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How much did you win?

Moved to the Banking forum.

No, sorry.

What do you think @simon43?

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

You could try to (pretend) to take it serious. Let her make a business plan.

I.e. with the nail saloon let her calculate how much she must invest, how much rent to pay, how much salary, etc. and how many customers she would need to even break even. 

And then get her to work out how many more customers she will need to make the 30,000 baht she lost from the job she gave up.

Get her to calculate the average profit per customer, and the average time spent per customer, and let her work out how many customer hours are needed every month.

In central Bangkok I see prices of 200 baht per hand, so 400 baht per customer. If her business expenses are 10,000 per month and she needs to recoup 30,000 salary then she needs 100 customers per month, or 25 customers per week. If a customer takes 1 hour then she has spent 25 hours of labour already.

If she worked 50 hours per week, and she had a customer every single hour, then she would make an additional 40,000 baht per month - but we all know you are never going to get a customer sat in chair nearly all of the time.

As we all know, she needs to work this out for herself though.

1 hour ago, Skeety65 said:

I need advice on the condominium act in terms of my enquiry. 

The Condominium Act gives you statute law, which is only a starting point. The Act doesn't have much to say about individual issues such as this, as these are left to the co-owners to manage themselves by way of an AGM/EGM  resolution.

If your committee does not have the specific power to perform this function as delegated by the co-owners at a previous AGM/EGM then you will need to propose a motion at the next AGM/EGM.

In a happy well run building the committee can usually make minor changes like this if there is no detriment to the co-owners, but in your case you have a litigious co-owner.

In the absence of specific permission in the Condominium Act, and in the absence of delegated authority then you have two choices:

1. The committee convenes and authorises the action anyway, or

2. You wait until the next AGM/EGM

It's entirely up to the committee if they want to go at risk or not. I would not expect the management company to undertake the change without a written resolution from the committee.

35 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

As it turns out, there is an app. MBA tax map.

Now I just have to figure out how to use it.

BMA taxmap.

Let us know if it actually works please. For others reading this, this app is for Bangkok only.

17 hours ago, thaitero said:

Many condos have motorcycle problems because there are  motorcycles which do not belong there. 
Abandoned motorcycles, long time parking of tenants and owner friends and many snowbirds who rent rooms for winter leave their scooters behind for summer if they know that there is no checking who parks and why.

 

Firstly there should be complete check of parked scooters and issuing parking stickers or similar.

@Skeety65 That's a really good point made by thaitero. Has your condo building done that?

3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

...what is you don't get or misplace the letter?

Take your blue book, title deed and passport to your District Office and they will give you a replacement.

3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Is there an easy alternative way to pay this tax?

There is normally a QR code on the invoice you can scan with your banking app.

3 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Is there a similar app for real-estate tax?

No.

Definitely bring it up for a vote at the next AGM. If the majority of co-owners agree then go for it.

It's not worth putting yourself and others in the firing line for. 

Take good quality photos of the problem and also the proposed solution.

14 minutes ago, ozfarang said:

The pension stops as soon as you depart Australia if you do not have portability

How do you get portability?

Diesel, just don't go mad with it. You can drill small holes in the trunk and pump it in with a plastic syringe, and you can also paint it on.

It will take a while, but it should kill off the roots aswell.

@Lite Beer Thank you. So the retirees applying under this section would now be a minimum of 80 years old for the 50,000/500,000 route, or 85 years old for the 20,000/200,000 route, with a minimum consecutive stay in Thailand of 25 years.

This must be a small subset of retirees.

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

Yes, that was introduced in about 2002 which meant those continuously on retirement extensions for about 6 years were grandfathered in at the old lump sum of 200k.  You have to keep on getting consecutive extensions to maintain it or you get bumped up to the 800k. 

So those guys would be something like a minimum of 77 years old now, with at least 27 consecutive years of extensions in Thailand.

I am sure there are some, but there can't be many, and their number will be decreasing every year.

3 hours ago, BE88 said:

Why should it be done every year?

It would be necessary to have it before coming to Thailand, it doesn't seem possible that a normal person after the age of 50 can suddenly become a criminal in Thailand if he has no previous criminal contributions.

As I mentioned above, you could be convicted in your absence.

Some people are convicted in their absence of serious, historic crimes that they committed many years ago.

8 hours ago, KannikaP said:

And if your passport shows that you have not been out of Thailand so unable to 'add to' your, hopefully non-existent home country criminal record?

People can be convicted in their absence, in which case they would probably be on the run or a fugitive from justice.

Exactly the sort of person a criminal record check would be designed to catch.

Moved to the Banking forum.

There are many SCB customers on this forum. If you post your question here they may be able to help.

3 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

I printed the police clearance from the email so same as a posted copy. Not sure what you are talking about?

You were discussing a police acro certificate. I was discussing a DBS certificate.

1 hour ago, OJAS said:

But in the context of retirement extensions would it not be more likely that we would need to apply for a Royal Thai Police certificate (https://www.royalthaipolice.go.th/downloads/clearance.pdf)

rather than obtain clearance from our home countries?

Maybe both.

2 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

Seems a bit backward. Australia police clearance was online and a Certificate emailed to you. There is a tick box option to select a free hard copy certificate mailed to your address but no need to do it

A bit off-topic, it's the same in the UK. You can online authorise people to view your certificates online, however that isn't going to be any use in Thailand. Immigration here are going to want a paper certificate.

No way immigration are going to deal with every criminal record system from every country, online logins, etc.

They will place the onus on the applicant to provide the correct paper documentation to them.

1 minute ago, Mutt Daeng said:

UK Citizens can download a form, fill it in and email it to [email protected] along with any supporting documents.

Police Certificate Form v34.docx 117.11 kB · 0 downloads

You can also order a basic DBS check online for 18 pounds, however you will need a UK address and the paper copy will be posted to your UK address, which is only going to suitable for some people.

Just now, jak2002003 said:

Yes...and the beauty of it for the ships is when things are mispriced or offers don't go through properly...or your overcharged.....you have no way of knowing. 

You receive an almost instant email when you leave the store listing all your items, the amounts, etc.

If you spot a mistake they refund your money. If you want to return anything they refund you and tell you to keep the item. It's not worth employing someone to deal with a returned yoghurt or whatever.

2 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Is ALDI refusing cash payments?

In a very few new format stores. The reason they don't accept cash is that there are no tills, and there is nowhere to scan your purchases to pay. You just pick up what you want and walk out of the store with your items. Your bank card is automatically debited without needing to present it.

It's not new - Amazon Go already has stores like this.

https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2023/8/1/aldi-uk-checkout-free-store-at-centre-of-cash-row-as-piers-corbyn-pays-for-strawberries-with-coins

It's a fair likelihood though that in the future more shops will be like this. The business will need very few staff; you can hire people on zero hours contracts to stock shelves as and when needed/gig economy work only; there is zero cash risk; no need for expensive computerised tills, cash collections, etc.