Pferdlkrantz

On 8/23/2020 at 2:14 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

Can someone, please, explain what impact this would have at consumer level?

The tax will be passed down the line to the consumer, naturally. 

Hi,

I'm in the process of designing a house that will incorporate eco-energy including solar electric and solar water heating.  Has anybody any experience of purchasing, building and installation using Thai firms?  Entering these terms in a search engine is very interesting; you either get companies that show a website but the website's for sale or, as in the case in Pattaya, the claimed address for the company is wasteland - and the blurb seems to indicate they deal with companies rather than private persons.

Any advice would be very welcome

On 3/27/2020 at 12:31 PM, Pferdlkrantz said:

Text deleted as thainet seems to have answered all the questions I wanted to pose in my post.  Thanks for that, thainet!

 

Regards

 

P

My girlfriend, bless her cotton socks, was kind enough to take the letter I photo'd and translated it through Google Translate.  I append a pdf of the text for information, also a picture of the letter that I received. 

There were the following documents contained in the envelope:

1.  The letter in Thai

2.  A second page that describes the property, what it is, whee it is and the size.

3.  Clipped to them was a yellow card with red writing on it.  Couldn't use photo and GT to find out what it was because of the contrast issue.

My take is that the card is only to be used if you have objections to the assessment.  I base this on line 9 of the body text and assume, then, that the card need not be sent and the default of 30 days (line 12) of the body text.   Please feel free to correct me if you think I'm wrong.

Regards

P

Land Tax.pdf

Text deleted as thainet seems to have answered all the questions I wanted to pose in my post.  Thanks for that, thainet!

Regards

P

Hi,

Situation:  Due to some factors, there has been a change in management at my condo.  The new Juristic Person Manager has initiated various plans, some good, some not so good.  This person is also a member of our Committee. We have very soon our AGM where, under the Condominium Act, the Interim JPM has to apply to for a term as such.  There have been indications that there is a sub-agenda to this in which includes the exclusion of all non-Thai in the running of the Condo.

The makeup of the Agenda is against the requirements of the Act, specifically the non-forwarding of the financial report in the stipulated period (minimum of 7 days before the AGM Condo Act 38/2) - in fact it has not been presented at all, and the non-presence of the Item "Consider other matters" (Condo Act 42/1).   There are some suspicions that this person has been personally contacting fellow Thai nationals, canvassing for support in the form of proxies presumably to force this persons own private agenda through the AGM. Note this is a very brief description of what is a serious issue with many other indications that this is occurring.  There have also been some changes announced with regard to the application to become a member of the Committee, as is the case with the proxy: The application for Committee membership now has to be done on a form (previously this was done on a voluntary basis at the AGM itself)  The proxy form now needs a "duty stamp".  Neither of these appear in the Act. 

Questions:

Can the AGM be stopped due to the irregularity of the Agenda? 

Is there any recourse in the event that the meeting is forced ahead despite the irregularities?

We can assume that there is some background information that we do not have with regard to the applications and proxies.  Can we get this information confirmed and, in the event of any irregularities, have the result reversed?

Any help, comments would be gratefully received.  Note that, with regard to the "Consider other Matters" issue: Due to the suspicious nature of some of the projects that have been initiated and the suspicion of money being siphoned off from an account, this is considered vital.

Regards

P

On 9/24/2019 at 2:20 PM, Benmart said:

I read and watch my valuables.

Not so much the quote as the sig.

Three rules:

1. A mix of random upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation and other symbols.

2. A different password - and username - for every website with which you are registered, includes email addresses - and have more than one, use throwaways for a casual look that requires registration.

3. See rule 1, but make that double length.

Regards

P.

On 2/24/2019 at 3:31 PM, Pib said:

 

 

I'm wondering if Thai banks will actually do this or this is just something immigration officers think should be easy to get.  Now, I'm sure it could be done but would require the bank to key in on select codes.  Guess we'll find out over the coming months are more after extension reports flow in.

 

And this is going to be a problem where pensions are "normally" posted to a person's account the first few days of every month but "occasionally due to weekends/holidays" a payment may be paid/post early.  So early you actually reflect two payments for that month and no payments for the following month. Like a U.S. social security payment on 3 Aug and another one on 31 Aug (the 31 Aug payment would normally occur on 3 Sep but 3 Sep/Mon was a US holiday preceded by the weekend so it was paid early).  This  periodically happens with various US govt benefit payments like U.S. social security,  military retirement, Veteran's Administration, etc.

 

Typically happens with the UK state pension, which is paid 4-weekly.  Nice to have 13 payments in a year, but doesn't help with the Thai regs, as you suggested.  Oh yes, and it's paid LATE in the case of weekends and bank holidays.

This likes the old-age-pensioner version of clickbate.  You're going to get all kinds of <deleted> transport whatever country you're in.  Either suck it up or don't get in.  Don't complain about it.  You ain't in Europe no mo

22 hours ago, Tayaout said:

From experience it means they don't understand. Instead of saying they don't understand they say don't have or no. For example I went to buy 1 whole chicken from some vendor that sell only chicken. I ask Khai noung and he said don't have. I point the chicken and he give me 1/2 chicken... 

And if you'd said "Gai song" you'd have got two whole chickens.  Probably.

May only apply to Pattaya, but I don't think so, somehow.

So you’re coming down Thappraya from Jomtien to the flyover, ready to hang a left to the traffic lights and then a right into what will become 2nd road.

Wrong.  They blocked it off for at the traffic lights to allow for road works from the junction where, if you’re coming from Pattaya, you turn right to get onto the Jomtien road to about 100m along 2nd road.  Diversion signs? None.  Mapped routes for those needing to get onto 2nd road (especially the Song Thaew’s)? None, leaving all traffic to make their way through numerous backstreets until they come out of a narrow street just past the road works.  As there are numerous small roads and passages between hotels, the traffic is jammed up even more by all the traffic trying to get onto the one road that leads back to 2nd road.

Note that all the traffic from Jomtien into 2nd road is forced into 3rd road, less those who know the back streets, doubling the amount of traffic on that road. And lo and behold and to my disbelief, I saw another road gang cutting a channel along 3rd road, just where all the traffic is concentrating where those savvy enough have come down off the flyover and are trying to join the rest.  "Naah", I thought, "not really".

But yes, yesterday I saw them digging up that road as well.   

So, my friends and colleagues on Thai Visa, I would like your comments on a change of definition of LOS from “Land of Smile” to “Land of <deleted>”

Regards

Pferdlkranz

23 hours ago, uzynkotak said:

The correct number is 72, not 27 or 50.

No, it's 27 - to Westerners.  Don't forget Arabs read right to left

Very well reasoned, common-sense and informative.

Thanks

Pferdlkranz

On 3/25/2019 at 10:01 AM, mamypoko said:

Made it very easy to live abroad. Thinking it also made it impossible to live back 'home'.

Anyone else feeling that?

Ex-scaley here.

Exactly.  School HK, Singapore, Malaya, Germany.

Service in Germany, and with the Navy round the Far East.

Since then visited/lived various countries from The Gambia the the US

Came back to the UK, spent some years wondering what I was doing.  Ended up getting a contract in Germany and essentially stayed there ever since.  Every time I had to go back to the UK it was like "What is this country doing?"

Moving around gives you IMO also the ability to pare down what you REALLY need when you decided to move.

Also, I never think of the UK as 'home'.

Anybody know of AA for Falang in Pattaya? 

Just askin'

And nobody has had a close look at the ICM TECh advert on this site.....