john smith

I'm not sure if this is relevant but... two years ago I used my Bangkok Bank debit card to pay. Things went fine at the office and the payment form with all the other paperwork was checked and accepted and sent to the UK. Some time later an email arrived from the passport office refusing my debit payment. My daughter in the UK paid for the new passport for me.

A variety of answers which have nothing to do with the question that was asked. I suggest that you Google Thailand probate laws. As a quick and incomplete answer yes you do mostly have to go through probate and it is not cheap as lawyers and judges are in the mix. Like you I protect my assets. My original plan was to leave my wife my Bank card number so that money was available to tide her over until probate was completed. This is not legal. She can not access any money that is in your name until completion of probate. The same rule applies to everything that is in your name only. You need to discuss this matter with a reliable firm of lawyer preferably not one in a tourist resort

I have some serious concerns about the facts in the article about the Chagos Islands. The actual cost is spread over the 99 year lease. The government's figures are correct. For the first three years there will be an additional charge just over 100 million for the lease of the base. Although I have serious doubts about the capability of this governments I do appreciate real facts rather than manufactured ones.

So, when you cut through the plethora of meaningless words what emerges is that the government is saving face but can not actually admit that the casino idea is defunct .The ministers are slithering away quietly.

Thank you to those who offered advice. I shall wait until after the weekend and try again

Sorry, this is and old and tired topic. I have read the instructions about the steps to be followed before filling in the 90 day form. They are quite clear. When attempting to access the 90 day form website via the promised link .There is no link. There are instructions how to fill in the soon to come online arrival card and some other stuff but no link to the actual 90 day online form itself. Would someone please assist by telling me how to find the damned form

Dr Qadhi was educated in a Saudi university widely considered to advocate the Whabbi strain of Islam. This should give pause for careful thought. Whether not the Dr. Advocating the project subscribes to the Whabbi tenenants of Islam which are widely considered to be somewhat extreme is not known and there is no reason to believe that he does but the Governor of Texas would do well to give very careful thought to this project which might well attract religious extremists. Whabbism is an ultra conservative form of Islam. Adherents to its beliefs are encouraged to flock to Jihadist movements

Does Bangkok Bank still charge B 200 for one years printout of all transactions in bank book ( not deposit account) ordinary passbook.

I may be three or four days late renewing my non O retirement visa ( possible hospital stay) is there a fine for this or will I need to cross a border return and start the whole process again? God forbid!

Slightly irritated by two of the comments in particular the one with "Friend" in inverted commas please let me explain. My " friend" is an eighty three year old lady with arthritis in both shoulders. She was scared that the officers might not understand her inability to lift her arms and not understand her refusal to do so. Previously she has only flown to Europe and how Asian airports work and the possible lack of English was a matter of considerable concern. Her son Googled the question. The first AI answer there was wrong. I have a small for fun bet on the question. Thank you to those who actually answered the question sensibly. I shall pass on the information.

To settle a bet does one go through a body scan on arrival at Bangkok airport? My friend believes AI which says yes. I say this only happens at departure and AI is wrong.

Oops! I missed a zero in line five. It should read £ 6000

I live in Thailand for more than 180 contiuous days a year. My income sent here is from my foreign pensions. My state pension is in theory not taxed. It is lumped together with my second pension. Thia reduces my tax allowance to around £ 6, 000 from £12, 000 +. Thus, the Revenue takes 20% of the £6, 000 but this is technically not tax being simply a reduction of my tax free allowance. Presuming that we who are not Thai citizens will be given tax numbers I wonder how the £600+ of non taxable income will be seen if it is more than the tax allowance of Thais? As a slightly silly aside given that I pay B 86 000 annually for my Thai medical insurance can I claim tax relief on that whether or not I'm liable for tax payment here?

Yes I know this is the wrong forum but I find the new format difficult to navigate. The problem- I ordered a phone. Lazada sent an invoice. The phone arrived and I handed over the cash. It was not sufficient. The invoice on the delivery persons phone showed B 300 more than the invoice on my phone.I refused delivery and sent a complaint to the company from which I had bought the phone. Their response was " This is the break price." After receiving this answer I emailed Lazada customer complaints. There was no response. Could anyone explain what break price means or is it a lost in translation situation and abandon ship?

I was in Bangkok last week in a quiet part of the city near a large hotel. Three very large buses of a type that I have not seen before were parked outside the hotel. Every bus had HAN TOURS in large letters on its sides. This I suspect is an indication of which country is cornering the Chinese section of the market here. It was an incredibly blatant statement