ChasingTheSun

So the GREAT NEWS is now clarified that the monetary value of all assets(stocks, bonds, cash, homes etc) held as of December 31 2023 overseas will NOT be taxed if ever remitted to Thailand at a later date? 

5 hours ago, DrJoy said:

PR - Permanent Resident, Residents visa/ Residential permit/ Non Quota Immigrant visa. Has many names in Thailand.

 

Thousands of foreigners have PR in Thailand, which allows them to live permanently in Thailand without having to renew their extension of stay ever.

 

PR holders or whatever you want to call it , are listed in the Blue House Book.

 

Update your knowledge and then comment

 

There is even a thread here on aseannow , on how to obtain PR -

 

 

 

Update your limited and outdated knowledge here

 

What you are referring to in your 17 year old link is a not actually what most would refer to as PR, as it is not permanent because it can be revoked, and requires yearly visits to immigration to maintain.
 

Not to mention that it does not apply to 99.9% of foreigners residing in Thailand on other forms of visas which do not permit their name in the blue book.

if you had read the thread, you would have also known that the OP clearly stated that he resides in the UK.

Please try to provide relevant and transparent feedback if your trying to help.

38 minutes ago, DrJoy said:

Yes, you are wrong.

 

Foreigners who hold PR are listed in Blue Tabien Baan(House Book)

PR? No such thing as PR in Thailand. Try again.

15 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

We don't have the place register for the blue book in our name. They never got the blue book registered at the land office.. 

is it leashold or foreign freehold?

i may be wrong, but i dont believe non-thai names are permitted in a blue book ever.

9 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Yes. We have all the documents showing payments. We also have all the replies and excuses they sent to us.  We also have their emails promising us payments from renting it out... Many.... Payments we never got.

I tried our lawyer in Chiang Mai, who we have used for many years and is really good and trusted. and he told us only a Phuket lawyer was allowed to act on Phuket matters. The lawyers had to be from the province the problem was in. 

 

I will however contact Siam Legal and see if they say the same. Thank you. 

If you have the paperwork saying that you are the owner, then call the cops.

Nobody can legally stop an owner from entering/living in his own property or leasing it out.

They are essentially illegally squatting in your unit.

Do you have some document saying that you bought/own the condo unit as leasehold or foreign freehold?

If yes, talk to the cops, show them proof of ownership, and tell them you are illegally being denied access to your property and ask them to intervene.

If that doesn’t work, ask a Thailand lawyer to write a letter to the developer, warning of legal action unless they give you access to your property within two weeks. Should only cost a few thousand baht for the letter.

if they are conning you they are probably conning others. Create a group on here or on facebook etc for conned owners of that project. Perhaps as a last resort you can take the developer to court as a group.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

If you “hate Phuket” as you said you did, you would probably be  better-off looking at another part of Thailand or maybe Cambodia or elsewhere.

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21 hours ago, up2you2 said:

Whoa thank you.

It was just a very small pice of enamel that broke away, my concern has been that decay would then set in in this area.

The tooth is cgood I feel, the replacement filling worked six months ago.

I have never been in any pain regarding it.

What I can't understand, if a filling cannot be attached in the area, then is it not possible just to smooth this surface area, and then would this in itself stop decay setting in?

A chopped tooth probably wont decay more than any other normal tooth if you can brush it as normal.

Since its a a molar, If its not painful, just leave it as is.

The aggressive large-scale investigation and seizing of land from foreigners who illegally bought it using the thai company route will become a very populist thing for the government to do at some point.

Just a matter of time.

Still zero clarification about the tax treatment of people living with retirement visas or other long term non-working visas.

in addition, how about clarity on the treatment of bringing in pre-existing capital, not income/interest/dividends/cap gains earned outside thailand while living in thailand?

7 minutes ago, JackGats said:

Reading this news I'm glad my LTR visa includes a non-tax clause for anything earnt out of Thailand. It couldn't have come at a better time.

What visa is that which includes a non-tax clause?

4 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Actually the statistics on arrivals say that the ratio is about 50 to 1 in Russians to Ukrainians.

Show us the actual link of these statistics you are quoting for both arrivals and long stay visas.

12 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

If anyone knows personally from experience of a good lawyer in Phuket I would be very grateful. 

You coukd try to make this a criminal case of fraud with the police first. Try filing a complaint that you were defrauded and see how the developer reacts to that.

Alternatively, just filing a case officially at the court may be enough to get the developer to make a quick resolution, without the need to take it to an expensive trial.

2 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

There is a chonote but it had no ones name on it as no one has taken ownership of it. 

Assuming you have a signed contract and bank receipts, It would be worthwhile to get a lawyer to immediately threaten them with legal action if they don't fix the problem within a month, via a registered letter.
 

If they dont respond, get the lawyer to take it to court.

They will likely settle before any case actually goes to court.

8 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

It's a hotel.  There are 6 separate blacks of rooms, a big restaurant and reception, and 2 swimming pools.  Also a beach bar. 

 

The land was bought by a farang / Thai business that owns a couple more such hotels in Phuket. 

 

Best Western Hotel was supposed to run it, but they pulled out. So now it's a private hotel.. 

 

Be bought our condo as freehold. The file was only a certain number of the condos were allowed to be farang owned...the rest Thai. 

 

 

You should have received a chanote for your foreign freehold unit. it would have your name on it. Did you get that?

7 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Would do. But we have no blue book. They never registered it it in our names.

 

We saw a black and white photo copy of it from when they went to And office to register...but that does not have our names in it...and it was never completed. Said it would e complete on last payment. Well, we did last payment and then nothing. 

 

All we have are the receipts of payments.

 

3 months now and no money fron them...desoite our contact. 

 

We are moving out of Thailand now...they spoilt it for us.  Just trying to forget about it. 

 

Can't even put a friend in it...as the hotel has electronic swipe cards..

 

I would have loved to go down there and ruin the room and flood the place... And clear out all our furniture. 

 

 

Is your condo unit leasehold or foreign freehold or thai freehold?

On 8/10/2023 at 11:57 AM, jak2002003 said:

We have one condo in  Phuket as part of a hotel.  They basically conned us. We paid for it all including the furniture.  

 

They started payments fine, but after a few months they stopped. They said they could not afford to pay us becasue of covid,  then floods, then low season, then staff off sick.. Etc etc.. 

 

After long battle with getting the ownership in our name (which never happened) despite the fact we have all the records of contracts and our payments to them...they finally agreed to buy it back from us to stop us taking them to court.. 

 

After a few very erratic payments and many missed ones each month  payments last year all payments stopped. They do not reply to email, calls, anything. Yet their hotel is full and doing well...and they are using our room to rent to holidaymakers. 

 

We don't have enough money for the lawyer and are worried if we can actually trust a Thai lawyer. It's been so stressful over 3 years. 

 

Now we seriously considering waking away from it.  

 

 

 

 

Put it up for sale. Somebody will buy it for the right price.

3 hours ago, Bupko said:

I own 2 app in Cassia - have huge problems with management. They simply don't pay revenue. And im not alone. Preparing for the court. Dont believe in 6%

Can you get out of the rental contract with the condo management company and just use your own agent to lease it out?

If not, try selling. Perhaps some russians or chinese will buy if the price is right.