tomgreen

Thanks every one for your comments and suggestions . Not being involved with any thing to do with Thai dentistry for many years , I was shocked at the prices quoted , even more so when my wife commented that the local village dentist she went to , was overflowing with local village people wanting dental work carried out , at what appeared to be expensive procedures costs. The most practical option that the dentist recommended ( 15,000.00 Baht ) may be the way to go, but on hearing the 15,000.00 Baht charge, I had to put down my glass of cold Chang , and say to my self , you must be kidding. . My wife, bless her , said that she would be fine , just leaving the open gap where the missing tooth was. My reply to my wife was , you should be fine, just don't smile too much. .

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My Thai wife recently noticed that she had one tooth that felt loose , so she went to a local village dentists to see what they said. Now its many years since Ive been to any dentist , so I’m not really up to date with the latest options / procedures . The local dentists only opens 4.30 pm week days and 9 am – 4.30 pm at weekends. Its obvious that the dentists who runs the business, is working at a hospital some where. The dentist after examining my wife’s teeth , said the loose tooth had to be removed. After the loose tooth had been removed , the dentists recommended several options , as far as I can understand from my wife’s description , the options are…......... 1. Fit a single-tooth denture , this tooth has to be physically removed before going to sleep , and then put back after waking up. This type of tooth will show an area of metal ( cost 2,000.00 Baht ) 2. Fit a single-tooth denture , this tooth has to be physically removed before going to sleep , and then put back after waking up. This type of tooth will not show an area of metal ( cost 3,000.00 Baht ) 3. Fit a single-tooth denture , that will be anchored permanently in place , on both sides of the tooth ( cost 15,000.00 Baht ) 4. Teeth cleaning – 600 – 800 Baht . My wife told the dentist that she would think about which option may be best . I’m not sure about the above costs from the local village dentists , or if there may be other better options / procedures available. -- Any thoughts / suggestions please . Thanks.

Many thanks, its appreciated , I thought that there should be a pdf link some where for the '' English '' forms, but could not find them. Hopefully your post may also help others in some way. 🙏

Thanks, I'm planning to go and get the tax all ready taken statement from my Thai bank savings account ( as requested by my local tax office ) and then once Ive got that paper work , I will be going back to my local tax office ( there they said that they would fill every thing out on line for me ) and ask them to then process every thing . Its interesting that you were given a reference number to use next year . Just out of interest ( being nosey ) was the outcome of you filing your tax form in , what you had expected.

With what I know now and looking back Ive come to realize that Ive made some big mistakes along the way, 1. I should have not informed the UK pension department that I was moving to live in Thailand . Big mistake ( at the time I had fallen in love with a wonderful Thai woman and Thailand compared to my home country , was a paradise on earth where I wanted to live in for ever ) . 2. Wanting to be with the love of my life and live in Thailand as quick as possible, I sold my house and banked the cash . Big mistake ( I should have rented my house out which would have increased in value , plus the rent money that I would have received would have been a big bonus. ) 3. Building a house , so that my Thai wife could be near her parents. Big mistake ( I spent a lot of money building a house near where my wife's parents lived out in the country side . 6 months after building the house so my wife could live near her parents , her parents decided to sell their house and move to another far off part of Thailand. ) 4. I decided to take out a private health care insurance policy that would cover me for any inpatient medical treatment . Big mistake ( I should have just saved the monthly private health insurance money in a saving account )

And to add to detest ..... Frozen Pensions .

Ive always been a worrier and add to that curse my genetic knee jerk reaction to always get things done quickly. A few weeks ago I received in the post at my home, a '' are you still alive '' form , that the UK pension department sent me . They want to confirm that I'm still alive and should they keep paying my pension money , yet another thing to worry about , and here's me thinking that retiring to Thailand would offer a paradise stress free life style ( don't get me started about private health care options 🙄 )

May be there all ready exists some one / business in the Philippines that can sort out the necessary paperwork , for retired British citizens , to convince the DWP that they are residing in the Philippines . I wonder if any one here knows of such a service .

The whole subject of submitting a Thai tax form in , is in many ways confusing , and a bit like Russian roulette , where the completed Thai tax form is the bullet.

Hi, thats interesting , so your tax exempt but still need to fill out a Thailand tax form .

The thought of one day standing in front of an immigration officer and as I hand over my completed retirement visa yearly extension paperwork , the immigration officer looks at me and asks, where is you Thailand tax assessment paperwork 😱

Hi , after reading all of the comments and advice posted here to my original question , it seems that due to my small UK state pension ( which is my only income being transferred to my Bangkok Bank account from the UK ) even if I do fill out the tax form I would not be taxed. So in my mind I'm thinking ....is it better to be safe than sorry.

Hi and thanks, what I wanted to do was to make sure that I filled the forms out correctly as they are all worded in Thai , and my Thai wife did not understand many of the questions on the forms. So I decided to seek help and ask at my local tax office , who were very helpful . Ive attached the tax forms in question.

Hi, trust me to scare some people, hopefully some information posted will be in some way helpful.