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My wife received a letter from the local council with an attachment showing details of our house (in her name) including area and the structural materials (concrete)

A call to the council confirmed that she only need respond if any of the details are incorrect, however all looks in order.

The house is probably worth 3 - 3.5m, so am I safe to think that she would not be liable for tax ?

Just to complicate matters, she also has her name as minority shareholder on a couple of friend's (farang) company structures for houses worth about 2 and 3 million.

Would these be added to her records ??

16 hours ago, canopus1969 said:

Great Wall Motors has committed to taking over the facilities but has no plans to hire the GM employees

 

Don't understnd, they are buying the car plants but nobody to work in them so they are not going to produce any vehicles ?

They will bring in their own workers

I took my form and copies of bank book/passport to Jomtien yesterday for the 90 day proof check.

A cursory glance though the pages and was told all ok.

What they do with it no idea.

No receipt or anything, would they know if I hadn't done it ?

Will this include obtaining work permits ??

4 hours ago, YetAnother said:

why not just have 'greeters' at the airport with their open hands out demanding money ? that is their deep intent anyway 

They already have taxi drivers...

5 hours ago, Captain Monday said:

Will they be selling these at the departure lounges?

They will have to be in Thai.

I see people in 7/11 only buying what they can store on their motorcycle, usually only 2 or 3 items.

Used to be at least 2 bags stuffed full.

I thought that they had stopped all those street food hawkers last year

1 hour ago, Thaidream said:

The only way to stop this nonsense is to be proactive and write to our Embassies in the hopes they can push the Thai Government to at least  rethink any further discrimination against foreigners.

 

Waste of time with the British Embassy

19 hours ago, OZinPattaya said:

Thinking of going to TikToc agency today in Jomtien. I’m just worried that even an agency might fail here and I don’t want to risk 15-20k baht if I don’t know if it will work

Pay when the visa is in your passport, not before.

21 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

I’d still like to know why the Viet Dong remains stable—yet the Baht gyrates out of control every day...

Because they devalue 2 or 3 times a year

8 hours ago, saengd said:

If the underlying cause of the problem is not resolved first, devaluation would only give everyone more Baht in exchange foreign currency. That would cause even more foreign currency to be introduced and cause the Baht to strengthen even further. Simply put, devaluation wouldn't work.

But it's worth a try .... if only for a week while we transfer our funds over????????

5 hours ago, neeray said:

Quite possibly the biggest "old boys club" in the world.

 

Can't figure out "up from down" on the economy but sure know how to load and point a gun.

They would never be expected to actually take part in military action.

Perhaps the monthly overseas payments are due on the 1st ??

US $ now 29.8    First time they've let it go below 30

15 hours ago, johng said:

I voiced my disagreement with the coming soon no "free bags" at Friendship..."how will customers get their shopping home without bags"  answer smile and hee hee ????

Not easy to carry bulky shopping on a motocy without bags

Thanks for the replies.... this morning all working fine so didn't need to change anything.????

1 minute ago, Traubert said:

When I left the UK, some supermarkets had machines that you could simply pour in a bucket of coins and they spat out notes and the odd change in coins to the value of what you poured in. It saved the supermarket incurring costs at the bank for change or security on coin deliveries. Simple enough idea.

 

Did this not spread out from the UK? Any Brits remember those machines? Are they still there?

I remember them in Tesco. But they took 15% commission 

This morning Firefox worked fine.

Now this evening it won;t connect to any websites, giving a message that it couldn't connect to a server. This is for all site I used earlier, including Google, Sporting Life, Thai Visa, Bangkok Post and a dozen others.

I have cleared the history cache but no difference. I have changed nothing on my pc.

I'm posting this using Chrome, which connects ok - but not to all sites.

So is my problem with firefox, or is it something else ??

My 3bb speedtest shows nearly 800  which is great, our modem seems ok as all the phones and android boxes work ok.

Is the answer to uninstall Firefox, then reload it (I have MozBackup) ?

Or is all this due to the system being overloaded at this time of year.

Another idea is that many sites have expired licences.

I think the same problem happened last year.

Thanks for any advice

7 hours ago, sandyf said:

That would depend on the route the minibus takes. There is the option of the minibus to Chonburi and coming up the 331 would be an awful lot quicker than going via Pattaya. You can get a bus from Chonburi to Ekamai, 74 baht if I remember right and leaves from the Eastern Hotel.

There is another service, I think 10am to 3pm, that stops at the Eastern heading for Ekamai that charges 100 baht, so you have a bus about every half hour in that period.

Avoid the 331, major road works been going on for over a year and don't look like finishing for at least 6 months

11 minutes ago, Fore Man said:

Sorry to pour cold water onto the topic, but one of my European friends just went through a very unsettling experience at Chiang Mai Immigration. He holds an original 0-A visa issued outside of ThaIland and fell under the new regulation compelling him to have health insurance. He already has a foreign policy issued by a major international insurer that clearly shows $2 million in maximum coverages, far exceeding the new Thai requirement.  When he showed his policy to Immigration, the official brusquely shoved it aside and handed over a list of 14 eligible Thai insurers that must be used to meet the insurance requirement.  He said that international coverage is not permitted. Actually the original announcement in Thai signed by a police general in Bangkok does mention that foreign insurance can be used if it exceeds Thai coverage, but Chiang Mai officials have decided not to ignore that order and disallow such coverage. Furthermore my friend contacted several of the listed 14 Thai companies and each one told him that he is uninsurable because of his age (late 60s).   <deleted>?
 

it is time for our respective embassies to step in to plead for fair play in how their citizens living in Thailand are being treated.  This refusal by Chiang Mai immigration authorities to allow adequate international insurance coverage clearly indicates the massive Thai shakedown for what it truly is: a conspiratorial scam that the Kingdom ought to be ashamed of foisting on older expatriate retirees who clearly can take care of their own needs. 

Sounds like Chiang Mai immigration are now also insurance salesmen !!

On 9/14/2019 at 6:27 PM, nchuckle said:

To this and all the other suggestions- does it have catch up and can I chromecast or alternatively screen mirror via lightning hdmi cable from iPad or android phone to the big TV. Without that they’re of no appeal to me as I cannot stand watching on a small screen.

Just connect your phone to tv via screen mirroring