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only times VAT is not included on the posted price is often restaurant and hotels, if they have something to the effect of price excludes vat on their menu cover or sign out front often levied with the 10% service charge

Business don't have to pay VAT if their takings is under 1.8million baht a year, so for some shops, they can have many accounting entities they can shuffle around and give discount if you don't require a receipt or some mom and pop shops will charge more if you ask for a VAT receipt But in all retailer, VAT is always collected, only certain type of goods like staple rice and grains, meat and vegetables and plain milk are VAT exempt

no, since they stupidly made into law that world cup matches must be available on free tv, any cable provider stupid enough to buy the rights would have to give that rights to the free tv channels, so everybody sit on their hands and it's not their problem

I don't see anyone cozying up to the fireplace or a roaring heater in Thailand either, is the climate in Thailand not conductive to enjoying warmth?

we have similar scheme at work, before the scheme, when someone or their relative dies, an envelope is passed around and whatever is collected is given, which can be unfair if someone dies in the middle of the month and most of the workforce is living payday to payday, so a new scheme is made where those who opt in paid a fixed amount every month and any funeral gets a fixed payout So if too many people died in a short period of time, it's understandable the fund is insufficient to cover the payout

The smaller turbo engines does produce that number and is definitely more efficient but what happens if it goes wrong? the turbo will be more highly stressed, typical engine should last 10-15,000 km between service for at least oil change general consensus for the new turbo engines like honda and nissan is that 10,000 kms between oil change is pushing it, and some the ones that has oil change light suggest changing the oil at around 7000km It's probably fine if the car comes with scheduled service plan for 3-5 years that its' under the warranty and you pay nothing for service.... but what if you typically keeps the car longer? fixing the turbo engine out of warranty could be very costly

here 36 was the only way into Pattaya from the 7 before the extension to North/Central onramp was open also known as road by the international school / Department of land transport

Normally the paperwork needed to complete registration is held at the Manufacturer's and only delivered to the dealer upon receipt of funds, you can see how this perverse incentive would cause them to 'delay' your registration genuine reasons are that they wait to have a bunch of them together and save the hiring of legwork to go all in 1 day, but they already charge you for the service of 'registration convenience fee' If you're paying cash, and do not want to wait, ask for 'registration kit' to go get registered yourself when handing over the rest of the balance, it only take half a day at the DLT and you go home with the number plate same day normally Or you could refuse to take delivery of the vehicle until it's registered, if they want to wait, it's sitting on their lot and you won't hand over the last checque until you go home

The 'Motorway' 7 is closed paid area all the way to Pattaya now, I used to take the route all the way past Sri Racha and into the Chonburi bypass too, you can still use the frontage road 3701/3702 but you can only get on the 3702 (Bangkok bound) from Pattaya via the 36, The frontage road do get packed with trucks during the day so no time saving unless you go really early the Motorway entrance between North and Central Pattaya will only let bikes up to the toll gates which takes you to Nong Yai or back to Na Klua

tubeless rims are readily available here, Takasago EXCEL brand has lots of local presence, easier if you don't need to source a compatible hub and reuse your existing hub

husband of deceased pregnant women was seen on social media that he was denied compensation for his stillborn son due to the fact that it wasn't born yet... the 11 more that had to wait is probably suffering the same humiliating treatment offered by the government

there's debit cards that appear as 'virtual' credit card, it may have finer control on limit per day/transaction and credit-card like dispute facilities unlike straight debit card where you're screwed if something wrong happens but then again you are limited to 1 per account, so you can't generate new card no. for each merchant you can get them from Kbank, BBL bank now has them too, True Money wallet also has a virtual card but they might be limited to Thai ID holders only

try searching in thai but even just typing travel insurance while in thailand would show results in English

call the central traffic police, they do come and clamp the wheel or ticket the taxis that park in the sois. I know because in my soi around Nana, the taxis do call the police against each other when they have a competition to get their usual parking spot, when the police came, nobody can park for a few days then it's back to normal in typical thai fashion.

It's in their interest to be stupid in this case, or the shop you found don't produce their own gold and only buy in their stock from bigger shop to sell bigger shops definitely know what the .99% coins and buillions are, they melt them down to use in their gold, if you ask nicely they might even sell them to you, but the usual ones available are suisse franc, chinese panda,

on a small bikes like a Wave, good tyres really shows their worth in the wet, top end Pirellis for the wave is only around 2000 baht a pair, it might wear down quicker on softer compound compared to the typical durability focused tyres typical of the cheap bikes,

if the annual tax hasn't been paid for more than 3 years, the car is 'off-the-road' you'd have to surrender the current plate and re-register with a new number after fines has been paid Service and mileage doesn't matter, if your car pass the 'MOT' it passes nothing the MOT place can't handle for a fee of course, but it'd cost more than just to renew plus late fine, plus they might need an imprint of the VIN and engine number,

the logic is that cards is retained in case you have other transaction after withdrawing cash, saves reinserting card and entering pin again but then the prompt that do you want receipt has caught out many, especially tourists who are not used to the thai system would walk away not knowing that they need to press the button either yes or no, otherwise the machine will only spit the card back after a long while, after which you could have absentmindedly walked away

there used to be account recovery procedure where a code is sent to a 'trusted friend' for them to get back to their account if they forgot their password or whatever the person could have added you as a 'trusted friend' then a 'hacker' pretending to be this person trying to get access to their account would need to contact you to get code sent from facebook to you

if it's a few deposit a year, they'll be under the radar, but frequent deposit above certain threshold or deposit large enough to look like taxable income gets reported to the taxman, this is more to target market stallholders or online traders, if it's only a few deposit from you and just sits there getting used over the months it'll be fine

discount for cash? never, more like premium added on if you pay cash for the normal popular models they'd rather have finance customers that earn them more luckily the crf is such a low volume model they don't bother Honda knows they have little control over what the provincial dealers does at the price they charge over MSRP for cash dealer does get out of hand Honda has direct from the company sales only in their 'Big WIng' for the big bikes and 'Cub House' for premium retro bikes like monkey and super cub showroom format, and only 1 branch each in Bangkok that's direct from Honda corporate itself, other branches are run by local dealer, but at least in the Big Wing and Cub House showroom, they are not as cavalier as the shophouses dealer 'Wing Centre' showroom that charges whatever they want

The AIS 'mesh' system actually cost monthly something like 100baht/month per unit, so if you intend to use it more than a year, you can afford to buy your own mesh system, with better quality definitely

You do need at least a valid passport

The only difference between jewelry and bullion gold is the commission, for jewelry gold the 'workmanship fee' is 5-800 baht per baht weight, but for bullion, (called the block fee for the physical act of pouring molten gold into the block instead) this can be as low as 1-200 baht per baht weight and can be waived if you buy as much as 5-10 baht weight or more, so you might have to wait a bit longer when the price go up to break even or profit to cover the commission that you paid for the jeweler

You need the minutes to do anything if it's under company name, from things like opening a company bank account it's supposed to be a paper trail, should the shareholder in the company disagree In practice, you can write one yourself and only have the director sign and stamp the company seal and it's good