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22 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I think I'll have bunch of ladyboys dancing at my funeral 

Each to his own!

5 hours ago, Benmart said:

Great to hear. Hopefully, I will received an evelope mailed from the USA in March. LOL.

Ive received many packages from the US during the pandemic. It usually took about 2 weeks.

I think the problem was outbound aimail from Thailand.

inbound didn't seem to be affected.

Why not allow foreigners to go to their homes purchased in Thailand and initiate strict tracing rules for the full 14 days..

Solved.

Next.

Silver Wings

54 minutes ago, ChiangMaiThai said:

Thanks for all the replies. I don't want to name the company because then the insane defamation laws in this country will probably get me too. 

 

I've been advised by another lawyer to simply stop filing paperwork and of course don't do any business with the company and in three years it will be declared defunct. 

 

The WP expired in Sep. That's another issue. It sounds like as has been mentioned there is a fine up to 20,000 Baht for failing to cancel a WP. What kind of madness is this?

 

1. WP Expired

2. New visa paid for (now totally unrelated to the WP)

3. 'That's nice, now give us 20,000 Baht for failing to officially cancel the WP'. 

 

Maybe I will sleep on it, but at this moment I can't imagine ever wanting to register a company in this country again. For anyone thinking about it, the amount of paperwork and fees if you want it done correctly by a third party is way beyond what you might be used to in many other jurisdictions around the world. A hub of commerce Thailand is not.

 

 

 

 

 

As I am aware there is no fine for not cancelling a work permit. When the permit expires or is no longer needed it should be handed back to the labor department. You have to fill a form in. There are threads about this specifically on ThaiVisa.

As I mentioned before all these fees and fines you mention is just you being fleeced.

I operated a company for 6 years for the WP mainly just as you did. I began with a company who fleeced me just as you did but after a year or so I figured it out and realized I was being fleeced when I found a local Thai accountant who did everything at the same price they would charge a Thai.

As I said, I paid about 10k to close a company including taxes and fees that is all, any more and people are being fleeced. The only high costs are the costs charged by the middle men agents/accounting firms who fleece the newbies.

Sorry about that, but at least you know now.

You are being taken for a ride.

the cost of an accountant including all fees to close a simple company including all those things you listed is about 10k

I would find an honest local accountant and ask them a price to help close your company

as someone else mentioned, you've been fleeced

Poor kid

10 hours ago, donnacha said:

London better than Edinburgh?

Sydney better than Wellington?

Absolute nonsense.

 

london has restrictions on vehicles entering the city. when j visited last year the few vehicles i saw were mostly Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicles.

the most used public transport was electric tube train.

I doubt that is the same for Edinburgh?

Do this?

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Borris

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18 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Which has no bearing on pension taxation as it is not levied on pension payments. Pensioners pay no NI contributions on their pensions.

They have already paid whilst earning the money to pay into the pension in the first place.

3 minutes ago, mrfill said:

You forgot to mention the thousands in tax they avoided by off-setting their pension contributions against tax (often higher rate tax). You also forgot to mention double tax agreements whereby you get to pay no tax on the pension in the resident country, if it is taxed at source. Such is the case with Thailand. Without that agreement, you can end up being taxed twice - at both ends.

You forgot about national health contributions that funds the nhs which is separate to income tax.

On 10/16/2020 at 4:51 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Years ago NZ decided to make everyone pay part of the cost of hospital care/ consultant appointment etc. The cost of collecting the money exceeded the amount collected so they abandoned the project.

 

Re the UK, if every elderly expat returned to live in the UK the cost to the NHS would bankrupt it, IMO. The elderly are the greatest burden on any health service, IMO.

I think that smokers and heavy drinkers of all ages are the highest cost to the NHS. 

Why chose, live 6 months in each land.

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Haste

Lovely, enjoy your breakfast.

Its a good idea although the application process will be the test to see if its feasible or not.