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16 hours ago, iforget said:

Same just happened to me. Last time I did my 90 days at the Phuket drive-through. Applied online this morning, got a response this afternoon:

"Your application for "STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS" has been rejected.

 

Others (Please specify)Please submit 90 days report in person because your extension is in another province."

 

No it's not. The system is screwed again.

Been living here for about four years.  No trouble with 90 day reports.  Visa extensions are another matter.  Am I wrong when I hear that IOs must serve a four year apprenticeship as Phuket airport minivan drivers in order to be inculcated with the proper attitude toward foreigners and customer service?  I'm not saying that but I hear other people saying that.  In any case next week I'm moving to a different continent.  Looked at another way:  When you are given a visa to live here you are actually being hired and your job is to spend money.  I played by the rules and did the best job I could.  I'm just doing what one should do when confronted by a difficult, even intractable, boss.  I quit.  

48 minutes ago, Card said:

The answer is a clear YES. Any money brought into Thailand from abroad, no matter how it is brought in, is assessable. That doesn't mean it will be taxed but has to be added to the mix and is declarable.

I have much enjoyed my stay here in Thailand for the last 3.5 years.  I cannot say that I have enjoyed Thai Immigration.  Seeing as how things with officialdom here, in my experience, can get very arbitrary and capricious I am choosing to not give them a potential crack at my pension(s).  There is just way too much variation between the people sitting across the desk from you.  I'll come back to visit friends as a tourist and enjoy my time but I won't live here again.  

23 hours ago, Liquorice said:

Has anyone knocked on your door telling you to register for tax liabilities - thought not!

I don't think that anyone will come knocking on your door.  It's possible that you will just be doing the routine paperwork for an extension and suddenly the IO will ask "Where are your Thai Tax Documents.....?  No Documents No Extension?"  Just a guess.  It could be official policy or an IO just jerking your chain.  The way things work around here you just never know.  

11 hours ago, Cardano said:

Not in the sense that it would be in any way visible to the RD.

The merchant's bank will have to handle the payment on the Thai end thus creating a record of a remittance by credit card.  My guess is that those records are visible to the RD.

5 hours ago, CANSIAM said:

Give it a rest.....'a take no sides neutral country' - ya don't need Frigates and submarines and F-22's, how bout a minimum wage big increase for your citizens lawmakers........ 

Hungry people in this country.  Not enough clean water.  Not enough medical care.  There are so many items on the list that need taking care of before some admirals and generals prestige needs.  

On 3/7/2024 at 8:27 AM, Terek said:

I noticed this pattern, in Central Pattaya near shopping areas there is some strange people, looking Indian or something similar. They come to random people trying to give some weird advice, usually they start without any manners telling that you are too fat, skinny,  bald or something other about person's  appearance and say they have advice, stupid and annoying. I smell it's some scam going on or just thieves trying to distract victim. Maybe someone smarter can comment what it's all about? 

Further along in the conversation and they would tell you that they are Microsoft Tech Support and you need to turn over control to them......they will solve all your problems. 

6 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I lived out in the country, had a .30-.30. Never know when a bear would show up.

 

I'm okay if gun shops have to screen buyers, I don't want felons to be able to buy guns legally. Or nut jobs.

 

I grew up in a family that had guns for hunting deer and rabbits and fowl.  All for the table.  I still remember the NRA sponsored hunter safety course that the State of Oregon required before I could get a hunting license at 14.  No one thought that was a big deal, it was just a step in the process.   I think a government approved course, a written and a practical exam leading to a license is needed.  And just like a car you have to be insured and there are numerous rules that need to be followed by all to ensure as safe an environment as possible.  If you screw it up you face penalties.  

Lot of hootin' and hollerin' for catching four (4!) perpetrators.  Many medals and promotions will be handed out no doubt.  

Spent part of a winter in Siberia in 1999.  Back then it seemed plausible that Russia could become democratic, actually, and integrate into the rest of the world.  Hope was in the air.  Young people were optimistic and very curious about the rest of the world.  Yeltsin really screwed Russia when he handed it all to Putin.  The winter weather was not that bad.  Rather like North Dakota or eastern Montana.  Yakutsk is a whole different thing.  

Thai drivers have a free pass for traffic and parking laws.  They just put on the emergency blinkers and all possibly relevant laws are suspended.  

I spent many years fighting wildfire in the US.  It takes a large, well trained, equipped and very costly infrastructure already in existence to stand half a chance.  I just don't see that happening here in Thailand.  Hope all are safe.  

I have been here for three years.  Single.  Live quietly on the south end of Phuket.  Love my neighbors.  Live by the rules.  Do what I'm supposed to do.  Go to immigration get yelled at and jerked around.  The checkers are nice people.  The IOs on the other hand.  Fine.  I have options.  I have an extension for a year after the usual stuff.  In two months will be relocating to another continent.  The poobahs in Bangkok talk about attracting and keeping wealthy expats to help the economy.  How about acting like it.