NanLaew

What's in Soi 5 that you're missing then?

Bangkok is huge so take your pick (google is your friend)

Yes and there's a fair few farangs up there too. By all accounts the Revenue offices are easy and amenable so I will do what typically works best in Thailand which is try again hoping that someone else will serve me. BTW, I did manage to pop back upstairs to the first (clueless) office and get an application form and take it home. A small win but a win nontheless. Thanks

Thanks nigel. Yes you are4 correct and it 1 Jan - 31 Dec. The third (unhelpful) lady must have conflated the last week of the last month before Songkran as the tax year. Per my post, in Udon Thani, only the second lady knew what a TIN was, why I wanted it and said it was easy. The first lady didn't have a scooby and the last one wanted my first-born child. Two of my friends in Bangkok and Pattaya have obtained them with comparative ease but they were both working here. Happy that your actual experience differed and it was easy. Wherever it was.

I tried to do this only last month for my foreign bank. From previous threads and other forums, it is relatively easy if you live where there's plenty foriegners, either working or retired in Thailand. You will need to get a 1-year statement from your Thai bank (through end March which is Thailand's end of tax year), your passport and go to the local Revenue Office. There's a complicated form to fill in, all in Thai so you'll need assistance with it. Once that's done, you are registered in the system, given your tax ID or TIN. They will also assess you for any tax obligations which in most cases of the long-term retired will be zero. There are rather generous tax allowances that apply equally to Thai citizens and foreigners, especially old ones. My most recent experience trying to get a TIN in Udon Thani, it went from clueless, to easy to difficult depending on the three different people I was dealing with at the Revenue office. The last one was steely-eyed above her mask and was adamant that after providing the bank statement, I would be assessed and only after any taxes due were fully paid, would I get my TIN. She also said the application form needed to be completed at her desk and it wasn't allowed to take it home and come back later. This was last month when the annual tax grab was in its eleventh hour and she must have mistaken my boner for my wallet! In the meantime, I used the clause in my foreign bank's tax ID request form (in their online banking app) that said I don't qualify for a TIN in the country where I am domiciled. They have subsequently accepted that, saying if I don't hear anything, it's closed but if not, they'll be in touch again. Looking forward to any posts from retired and/or non-working foreigners who actually managed to get their TIN here.

No they're not. Mine aren't for example. No they're not. None of mine are nearer than 4 m. No they don't. Many of them have blocked, dirty filters but none of mine do. Don't give up your day job.

What on earth does that mean? Don't most people only go where they want to go? Unless they've been taken I mean? Like Brian Mills's daughter/wife/shih-tzu, etc..

Mrs NL was just telling me that her brother got a phone call 'from the bank' last week telling him he owed them 20,000 on his truck payments and saying he needed to pay "today"' He was more confused than flustered, said he'd take care of it and told them to call him back later. He checked his bank app and the finance company app and reconfirmed that there were no late payments anywhere; all current. The 'bank' never called him back either.

I'll tell you what's ridiculous. 500 baht for a beer.

No. No it wouldn't.

You ever been to Dam Square? Yes, why? Did you live there?

I think you meant to ask, "Will there be vocational training colleges for the art and craft of sex working, with a diploma upon successful completion of the course a happy ending?"

Offending public decency, eh? In Newcastle, it's called tits oot.

I had a reputable real estate agent home finder in Pattaya charge me a finder's fee that was 100% refundable if I didn't take up anything in the selection they offered and would be deducted from the first month's rent if I did sign a rental contract. If you were viewing a property recommended by the agency and they didn't consider there was anything wrong with this 'transaction', I would find another agent. You should not have felt pressured and as pointed out earlier, should not have handed over any cash at all. I would have just crossed them off the list.

Absolute nonsense. Just because 'broke and dumped' happened to your friend...

And the downside is what exactly?

OMG! Not HomePro! Have they totally lost their moral compass???!!!

Really? I have it on good account that there's still pole shuffling at the TQ on Beach. Saw it with my own 4 eyes last January as well.

Is there any validity in (repeatedly) posting the US government's definition of human trafficking? This being Thailand and all? @goatfarmer has already posted on the second page of this thread what Thailand's legal definition of human trafficking is. If it's part of the whole procurement and exploitation process, then Section 6 pretty much covers the act of "buying someone a bus ticket" as well.

Are you suggesting that my good mate Sergey isn't normal?

Since immo offices bureacratic needs and 'rules' can vary wildly, tell us what office you will be attending for your extension. In this way, a helpful member may come back with some unique details that may prevent a stubbed toe.

Worked for me! (he hadn't cleaned his room)

You need to be absolutely sure what the 'emergency passport' consists of and what can be done with it. Some of these are nothing more than an emergency travel document that only allows you to fly to wherever country you can get a new passport. This emergency passport may be accepted by Thai immigration (along with a police report for the lost passport) to avoid fines, etc.. while you are waiting for a new passport to be issued via a local embassy or consulate but AFAIK, they aren't supposed to be endorsable due to their limited validity. Good luck in sorting it all all out during the New Year madness.

After the Songkran closures, they will still have 13 days to 'find' the passport before your current entitlement to stay expires. Your passport has been 'missing' for about a week so not sure why you are quoting 90-day overstay fines, criminal records and the like. I have found early April is always fraught with delays as a lot of businesses and offices, including government ones, tend to ramp down in the week or 10 days leading up to the official holiday closing. The 'big boss not there' is a common happenstance.

So they are open (for what's left of) today and all day tomorrow. Have you spoken with anyone at the agency? Do you have contact with them at all?