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Yes and I still use Wise.

Impressive, you turned it into a climate change platform. It's too bad your statement is clueless. Farmers burning sugar cane is not climate change.

It doesn't matter what the number represents. I call any call center, and if I have to give them a credit card or bank account number, the bloody annoying people, almost all of them get three digits, and then they read back the three digits and do it for the entire set of numbers. It bloody annoys me, plus they never get it right the first time, and then I have to repeat the process until I have had enough and demand they do not repeat the number until I give it to them entirely. What is this? I have never encountered this in the USA. Is there an explanation for this in Asia, as it is almost entirely universal here?

Fantastic, we need to vote for more felons.

Wonderful. Do you pay the service charge? That is what this thread is about.

I just got a call from the restaurant manager to apologize for the service charge, saying she can't make it not print on the bill. They returned my money.

My next question is whether the 90 baht service charge (for nothing) is also taxed. Let's do some math.

After reading the Bangkok Post article, I just called Fuji +66(0) 2026 6514. They are refunding me. 90 baht. Yeah, nothing right. Think about how much money I can keep from the corporate pickpockets in the future. It adds up. It's a form of questionable legal/non-legal pickpocketing where you voluntarily let them put their hands in your pocket to extract more money. Never again. https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/advanced/2407506/restaurants-warned-over-10-service-charge

Thank you for that article. It is that article that made this post. Well done.

What does the service charge pay for, exactly?

The bureaucracy in the USA is terrible enough. Imagine how bad it is here. Pull the sheets over your head when you get in bed with the Thai tax collectors.

No worries, several followers will ignore Benjamin's advice because he disagrees with them. Fools.

It was written by a man who had never read the agreement between Thailand and the USA. Do you want it?

This will become another reason to use an agent, bypassing all this nonsense.

My son pays all the bills. I'm too feeble-minded to handle such a task, or so I was told. I have a few thousand baht in my account. I am a pauper. When I die, my son has it all. I don't want him going through the grief (save it for me) of trying to get money from the bank. He has it now. He keeps the gold, too. I have found when I ask him to pay for something, that he does inquire now why the money needs to be spent at all. That was an added bonus.

My child has a Thai account that is not associated with the USA or any country other than Thailand. I sold some gold and upon trying to deposit it into my account and getting asked for my passport and which country I come from, I just had my son deposit the cash. No questions were asked.

It's not dodging if you are married or if it is sent to a child.

Better to a family member.

It will take one expat with the means to pay for the lawyers to bring suit as the damaged party. It will happen.

I don't bring any taxable income to Thailand. As a generous philanthropist, I gift money to Thais, which is not taxable.

People follow laws, not procedures. Perhaps we are already in Phase II

It will be challenged in court.

It's been a few years since I ate dinner at Fuji. I had forgotten about the 10 percent service charge, which I don't remember being mentioned on the menu. If anyone regularly goes to Fuji, let us know if the charge is mentioned on the menu. I asked the cashier who got this money. She told me that the waitstaff receives nothing. So the company tacks on another charge you don't see until the bill arrives. I don't like this. Many people will assume that the waitstaff gets this money and, in kind, leaves no tip.

You are one of them. Get them all. I won't miss you.

No.