Ben Zioner

You must be right, a real shame that the do it only this time of the year.

W.I.P

They have a validation service and a lookup service. The validation service ensures that the ID entered matches the requirements of a given country. Just try to enter a number that isn't a Thai PIN or TIN. I have haven't tried the lookup service, obviously, as I don't have a file at the RD yet.

Just went out and saw a few people watering the road.. Thai culture I suppose?

You know that this all BS from an entitled crybaby, don't you? The bruise shown on the pic was hardly noticeable, and any doctor or nurse can inject herself H2O with a micro needle if they want to get nicely useful bruises.

I couldn't see how this paper proves that no TIN is required, but reading it led me to think that there must be on-line resources to verify TINs, and indeed I found this one within a couple of minutes. It needs basic registration and you get five free shots. I could check my wife's as well as my own PIN numbers and they checked just fine. So each country deploys it's own Web Service and all countries use a common WSDL (Web Service Definition Language), we used to say "weezdle", in our IT jargon. The documentation of the of the Thai service is here. The Tin Check application above just calls the relevant services based on country code, it passes the number and receives the status. So lets be careful with assumptions that RD won't be able to corner us, the more I look into it the more I see that work has been done.

Where are her injuries? The downgrade of the charges would make sense for anyone with a bit of common sense.

Now he is going to get fine again for the way he is holding his bottle.

Ok, I was unwoke, goats are people too.

What is assessable income for an LTR/WP visa holder?

Thanks, the PIN is 13 digits as well. Anyhow I'll send my PIN to UBS and request a TIN in due course. Remember reading that in case of audit you don't get the same treatment (10 years vs 5 years) if you don't have a TIN.

My reading is that foreigners, who don't have a PIN (i.e no lellow book, nor ID card) must get a TIN.

"A taxpayer identification number is issued by the Revenue Department and comprises 10 digits.However, a taxpayer who is an individual or a payer of income who is an individual is not required to apply for a TIN if he has and uses a personal identification number (PIN) in accordance with the civilian registration law. He can use his PIN instead of TIN for tax return filing purposes."

Yes, that's what I was saying.

I don't plan to file next year. If asked I'll say that since 99.9 % of my income isn't taxable, under RD 743, I thought I didn't want to waste their time. I'll pay a fine if needed, but I doubt it'll be much more than a few hundred baht.

The PIN is the Personal Identification Number (13 digits) that is on top of Thai ID cards. It start with 1 for Thais and 6 for most [non PR] foreigners. Just found this, where it says TIN isn't needed where a PIN is available.

Is there a Thai culture, other than xenophobia, dogma, subservience and superstition?

I reckon you are right, but do I need a TIN, as I have a PIN? My wife has a TIN and it shows the same number as her PIN..

Oohhh I thought daily. But my question was more directed at the P for P issue, because some guys here would admit they are near zero if they don't count PP.

Today I have received a letter from UBS requesting a [Thai] TIN. I was about to send them my PIN but got second thoughts. Since I have the so called LTR/WP visa, can I tell them that not of money transiting through UBS is assessable in Thailand and that therefore I have no TIN to provide? I am not sure I want to do that, because I wouldn't like it if they closed my accounts. But their letter was threatening at all, a reminder might be though..

10.6 That doesn't include PP partners I guess? But even then it is surprising low.

Not the same, they let Soi dogs have group sex in the streets, and I thought that we weren't considered as humans, not in the Thai sense at least.

Yep, and one DIU is the only Farang crime they could find today. Cancel his visa, flog him and deport him.

No worries mate, was raised on a farm, saw many humping goats...

I do read, but I don't see how compassion and tolerance, which I have, towards mental illnesses should lead me to accept same sex marriage.