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3 hours ago, xylophone said:

Having said that, my premium was becoming quite hefty, so I asked if they would include a 50,000 baht deductible (the amount which I pay for any procedure) in order to reduce the premium payable, which they did. However now I come to think about it I have 50,000 baht which I have to pay upfront, as well as a 160,000 baht premium and my total cover is only 1 million baht, so I'm wondering if it's worth renewing it???

I can't tell you what to do, but I can say that I hear you loud and clear.

When I 1st came here a decade ago, no one would cover my pre-existing condition, 2 years later I found one that did through a broker, however the policy was for emergency cover only.

As I was just under 60 years of age, it all started out good, 70,000 per annum, which included my pre-existing condition, then the following year it jumped to 90,000 per annum, I questioned why the sharp rise, Covid claims, oh ok, I see, (not me), the following year 110,000 per annum, I questioned the sharp rise again, oh, you are now in the 59-64 year bracket, oh, ok, the following year 140,000, again, I questioned them and they said that they changed underwriters, oh ok, that is when I decided that I was not renewing and have been without cover for 6 - 7 years. I made zero claims, and they bent me over so to speak.

I also had my family on private cover, so the last 6-7 years worth of premiums that I have saved has been put aside, that is well over 1,000,000 baht in premiums, allowing for increases, say 1.5 mil baht.

I have reserves in case of an emergency, that said, unless it is something major, it isn't going to cost an arm and a leg, and if need be, and I can fly, I will go back to the old country where we still have Medicare, because we use it every 3 years when we return, so as long as we are not out of the country for 5 years continuously, we are good.

I have been to a private hospital a couple of time and it hasn't cost an arm and a leg for out patient procedures, that said, the University hospitals are quite good as are the Military hospitals, I have been told.

2 hours ago, xylophone said:

I didn't disclose it because I had no treatment for it and as I was covered by health insurance when it was discovered, I thought that all would be fine?

Read the fine print, you have a duty of care to inform your insurer of any changes in your condition, whether it's a growth a mur mur in your heart etc etc, etc.

If I were you, I would get a letter from your heart doctor when it was 1st picked diagnosed and provide that to the health insurer you are with, providing a thorough explanation as to why you didn't advise them of it when it was 1st diagnosed.

If they don't buy it, yes, your next health insurer will class it as a pre-existing condition.

On 6/30/2025 at 6:30 AM, webfact said:

The sister of former police chief, Colonel Thitisan Utthanaphon, known as Joe Ferrari, is urging the police to uncover the mystery surrounding his death in Klong Prem prison on 7th March. His body was later brought to Wat Phra Si Mahathat for a religious ceremony on 10th March.

Give us a break, he got what he deserved, end of story, you know, what goes around, comes around !

5 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

It would be 22/06/2031.

I recently did mine, one week after expiry (so one week after my birthday). I got 5 years and 52 weeks. Basically fast forward to your next birthday then add five years.

5 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

IF your Birthday is on 22-June... 

 

IF you renew your DL on 22-June your DL will expire on 22-June 2030  (5 years)

 

IF you renew your DL on 23-June your DL will expire on 22-June 2031 (6 years)

 

Thank you gentlemen, I will make a diary note and renew my licenses a day after they are due to expire in 2028, hopefully my expiry date hasn't transpired first LoL

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Its exactly the same licence, same costs etc... 

 

Its one of those 'Thai idiosyncrasies'...    the DLT seems to simply works out the DL expiry on a basis of '5 birthdays from now'...  and thats it.

So it's not really 6 years then, e.g. if I renewed it today, lets say a day after my birthday (22/06/2025), then the expiry date on the next renewed license would be 23/06/2030).

Or would it be 22/06/2031 ?

On 6/20/2025 at 8:11 PM, ukrules said:

I went within the week after my birthday each time to get the extra year.

Oh, I like that, go one day after my birthday and get 6 years.

Is that for the same 300 baht that I pay for 5 years ?

On 6/11/2025 at 9:35 PM, Liquorice said:

It's the wives that are being asked to sign an affidavit, with a witnesses ID and signature, that the marriage is de jure and defacto.

In the event of the marriage not being so, it's the wife and witness that can be now be prosecuted for the crime of perjury.

Many thanks for your detailed post and experience.

My wife has to sign some docs annually, no idea what they are, and I have to sign a TM7 in front of them, hence the reason I don't glue the photos in the ones I do at home out of habit. Waste of time really as I have already completed them, but up to them if they want me to sign new ones when there.

The witness ID & signature can be a deal breaker for us as we live an hour 20 from our immigration office, of which we only visit once a year, 90 days online thankfully.

My experience is always an issue annually, no matter how well prepared you are, and trust me you, I have my ducks all set up in a row as well.

Last time, we were told, as I had a new bankbook, there was no need for me to copy each and every page of the old one anymore, about 17 pages, just the new one and the 3 months supplied by the bank with the letter.

When we went this time, we were told that we needed the last bank book pages as well, but we said, we were told, we didn't, yes, yes, said the head IO, but the rules changed, but if you want to give a donation to the Christmas fund, nobody has to know, wife turned to me, and said, did you bring extra docs, as I normally do, yep, I said, in the car honey, get them, I went and got 12 months of bank statements printed and the old bank book, yes I am all over these clowns.

Came back in with them, he took a look at 2 pages and slide them bank, ok, I just had to see them.

Hopefully next trip, we don't have do the witness thing as you experienced, that said, I fail to see what the Kor Ror 2 has to do with anything then, as it states we are still married, but yet we need a witness as well LOL, you can't help stupid. 

53 minutes ago, jas007 said:

I thought I saw something the other day about Google deleting inactive Gmail accounts?  

Yes they are only allowing X amount of storage or you can buy more, I opted to delete a lot of stuff, also ended up losing files, but not that important that I can't survive without them, but it is a nuisance.

On 6/4/2025 at 4:06 PM, NoshowJones said:

All my archives (important) have disappeared from my Gmail account. Anyone know how that could have happened? Anyway I can recover them?

This might be a long shot, but have you gone to your Google mail which should be linked to your gmail account ?

18 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

Extension date and 90-day report date have nothing to do with each other.  SOME immigration offices, and even some officers in some immigration offices, will do a new 90-day report for you as part of your extension.  But other offices will not, and a 90-day report filed for example 40 days before your extension will still be due 50 days after your extension, as they are not related.

I know if I go online, say for example a couple of months before my extension date is due, the 90 day renewal will only go up to the expiry date of the extension.

Once I apply for a new extension, I go without any 90 day report date until my extension is approved, and that is when immigration will issue me with another 90 day renewal, which expires 90 days after that date, therefore I see no relevance in what you stated above.

Maybe other immigration officers work differently  ?

On 6/1/2025 at 9:52 AM, sharot724 said:

If i do one will it remain at Visa  renewal date or just ignore me or posibly do a renewal?

If your renewal date is before the 90 days, i.e. it has less than 90 days before it's due to be renewed, it will renew to the Extension renewal date only, otherwise, if you have say 91 days to go to renewal date, it will provide you with a full 90 days.

1 hour ago, Upnotover said:

better just keep it in your own account and be done with it.

I thought I'd ask, do you know if immigration is against one keeping 400k baht in a fixed account, so as to keep it separate from my everyday account ?

I am looking to buy a suit, shirt and some shoes in any of the above provinces as I have a wedding to attend to in Phuket next month and cannot buy or get one made up there as time doesn't permit it.

I prefer a shop vs a tailor, however if I have no choices, I will go to a tailor.

Appreciate any one knowing of a shop or tailor in the above provinces, thanks in advance. 

1 hour ago, Upnotover said:

You cannot receive any benefit from the gift to your wife, if you do it could be considered assesible income. So no, it's not a good idea.  But on the other hand the chances anyone will ever care are close to zero, better just keep it in your own account and be done with it.

That's what I needed to know, sound advice.

So for example; I will transfer 400k baht to my account and leave it there untouched, the balance to the wife's so as to live off every year thereafter, assuming that I can gift her say 1 million baht per annum.

Too easy.

My question is, can I transfer the 400,000 baht annual amount for my 12 month extension from my wife's savings account into a fixed account, to be created in my name or to my normal everyday account.

The reason I ask the above question is because with the new tax code that came into effect, I no longer wish to transfer money into my Thai bank account, I would prefer to "gift" that annual amount to my wife and live off the money that way.

I believe this is a legitimate way of not having to pay tax on any money remitted into Thailand.

For the record, I transferred enough money for us to survive prior to the 1 January 2024 date that it came into effect and am now forward planning before transferring any funds in the next few months.

Thanks for all relevant replies in advance.

5 hours ago, khunjeff said:

Why couldn't they use his face and fingerprints to identify him through immigration's much-vaunted biometric system? 

If my immigration office doesn't know when I re-enter the country through the immigrations database (which apparently isn't linked up to them) and of course, I have to drive 90kms to advise them that I am back from my overseas trip, then good luck with the police using the system.

Have you forgotten where you are man LoL  

On 4/30/2025 at 11:59 PM, KhunHeineken said:

Not now, but no guarantee about the future. 

 

The "long overseas holiday" tax residency loop hole can't last forward. 

It will last for as long as it lasts, until then, I will just keep enjoying my "long overseas holiday" with the tax loop hole, won't I.

I mean, if I had to pay tax for money I remit here, it's miniscule, and I don't bother about trivial matters, I leave that to you LOL

3 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

The government has spun it that their huge tobacco tax is stopping people from smoking, and you fell for their BS. 

Statistics are statistics, naturally you have to discount some of it, and of course there will always be ways to sell smokes illegally, as for believing ABC News or other mainstream news outlets, I'll pass thanks.

On 5/10/2025 at 10:19 PM, Harrisfan said:

Won't work. They banned smoking ads. People still smoke.

 

I think they should promote junk food more. Just tax it more. Have a calorie tax.

Fewer people smoke, including me who gave up in 2000, when smokes were $10 a pack, now $55.

There has been a long-term downward trend in tobacco smoking in Australia. The National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS) found:

• The proportion of people aged 14 and over smoking daily more than halved from 24% in 1991 to 8.3% in 2022–2023 (AIHW 2024d, Table 2.1).
• The proportion of people aged 14 and over who have never smoked has increased to the highest levels since the survey began (from 49% in 1991 to 65% in 2022–2023) (AIHW 2024d, Table 2.1; Figure TOBACCO 1).
• The long-term decline in daily smoking has largely been driven by people never taking up smoking, though the proportion of people quitting smoking has also risen over time (AIHW 2024d, Table 2.1, Greenhalgh et al. 2025, Figure TOBACCO 1).
• https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/alcohol/alcohol-tobacco-other-drugs-australia/contents/drug-types/tobacco-and-e-cigarettes

Best I can explain this, is that we have a dwelling on a parcel of land which is now Chanote Title, it was previously one Title under Chanote Title, and was owned by my wife's Grandmother, who recently passed at a ripe old age of 90. 

The land from my understanding was transferred to the my wife's Auntie (daughter of Granny) after Granny's passing, with no duty/taxes payable as she was the daughter of the land owner, i.e. free transfer, but for maybe some baht for registration of the land in her name ?

It is a huge piece of land of about 8 Rai and she recently asked us if we wanted to by some (family rates of course) as she doesn't want outside neighbors (noise, etc).

The question I have is, do we have to pay duty/taxes etc on the whole value of the 8 Rai of land, even though we would only be buying a slice of it with our house already on it + the land next to our house which is about 1,000 square metres that we would be buying, in all about 2,000 square metres, that's 1,000 of the land we have and a 1,000 square metres we would be buying, giving us a total of 2,000 square metres, as mentioned above.

The wife, who I don't doubt, says, we have to pay duty/taxes on the whole 8 Rai, then some registration fees on the land our house sits on, including the land we are looking at buying next door to us as a whole 2,000 square metres, e.g. she says it's best not to subdivide the two lots, e.g. the 1,000 square metres that we are looking to buy on it's own, as we will have to pay again on the 8 Rai, but if we do it as a whole (2,000 square metres), it's free in the future to subdivide and transfer the additional land (1,000 square metres) that we are looking to buy to the kids, and all they would have to pay would be the registration fee, e.g. (free transfer to kids).

If on the other hand we decided to sell the 1,000 square metres in years to come, we would have to subdivide that land, (1,000 square metres), and we would have to pay duty/taxes on the 2,000 square metres and not the 8 Rai, if I understood her correctly ?

Anyone have any experience on this, and my wife is not pushing for us to buy it, either way, we don't care, but I'm with the Auntie about noisy neighbors who might move in between the two of us vs Mr Farang helping out the Auntie if the price is right, and leaving it there for the kids in the future, I mean we are only talking around 300k-500k baht which is affordable and worth not being disturbed of the unknowns that might move in, in the future, and as there is no zoning restrictions, I wouldn't want a panel beating/mechanic/restaurant setting up here as we enjoy our privacy and peace and quite.

Nothings changed then, free entertainment.

Has anyone told them their is plenty of room (territory) to go around, but bitche$ be like ....

Sounds like they're rounding up the sheep for future tracking.

13 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

Longer wait times at hospitals, increased crime rate.  And I feel nervous when they speak English.  This is Thailand.  Speak Thai.

Longer wait times at hospitals, hmm, have you tried private hospitals, my experience is between 5-10 minutes to see a Doctor, that said, you have to pay, beats sitting at a public hospital for hours to see a junior Doctor who in my opinion, has no idea. Just from my experience, that and most Doctors in private hospitals are trained overseas when seeing a specialist. Fork out, put up, or go back to where you came from, maybe it's better there and that's why your here ?

Increased crime rate, where ? Crimes are and have been around for centuries, that said, I feel safer here than back in my home country because the laws there when sentencing are pi$$ weak.

I take it you speak Thai fluently and have Citizenship ?

13 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

Anyone else fed up with all these foreigners coming in?

If your not happy sharing Thailand, which is not your country, then go back to where you came from.

You must be a blast to hang with, poor Pun LoL

Has the person who does the inspection of the building at stages, e.g. foundations, etc etc etc been hauled in to please explain ?

I'm thinking a big brown envelope to turn a blind eye was forth coming.