mikebell

It is a scam if they admit THEIR error but then refuse to backtrack more than four years after 15 years of over-taxation; keep you waiting for over an hour on the phone; refuse to acknowledge letters posted from Thailand; make it almost impossible to communicate with them except by phone; promise action but then don't fulfil their promise.

Thanks for this; I have posted two letters without response. I have been promised another 2K in 14 days; that was July 14th! I think it is appalling that HMRC blame us the punters for not checking our tax coding making us responsible for their mistake.

I am just back from 3 weeks in the rain. This is to let you know, I (& many others) are likely owed many thousands; I stand to recoup over 5K UKP. I know next to nothing about Income tax coding which is at the crux of the scam. Each year I am given a notice of coding & accepted it unconditionally as it was from the HMRC people themselves. This is their defence when challenged; if you accept it without checking, you lose. My daughter thought I was paying too much. We checked on line & found (eventually) to my horror that the tax authorities have assumed I was receiving a full State pension (of 10K this year.) In fact my pension has been frozen for 15 years as I live in Thailand. I sent two letters from Thailand which were ignored. I sent on-line messages which were allocated an official case number but never acted on. So I phoned in the UK. (Phoning from here was difficult because of the time gap + an inordinate wait of about an hour before you got a real person (all the while being told how important your call was). I was initially re-directed to the Pension people in Newcastle, staffed by incompetents who did not know what day it was & re-directed me back to the Tax people. After an exhaustive conversation with someone prepared to go the extra mile, he admitted that I have been overpaying for years. He could only go back 4 or 5 years and calculated I was due 5K+. I received the 1st tranche within a week (3,500+) but there has been a deafening silence since.

+ the water in Pattaya is too polluted even for dragons.

They're only frantic because they are being made to work or they smell baht from a foreigner.

moi aussi.

The only way to get Plod off their bottoms to do some work.

From whom? Cambodian fishermen? With torpedoes?

Typically the Pattaya police will not meddle with any wrong-doers unless there is a chance of financial reward.

Luckily the owner had renewed his Fire Insurance only last week.

Pattaya police are invisible and tarnish Pattaya's image every time they do become noted.

Koh Chang. He had to recant his review publicly after a night in the cells.

I arrived from Dubai last night, prepared to play my old-age card to circumvent Immigration queues. No need; no queues; two mins & through with my re-entry stamp. Baggage a further 15 minutes. NamNam taxi waiting at Meeting Point so on the road in well under one hour. No sign of any congestion; any where.

Dubai?

So what are the consequences if I don't do it? On previous occasions when I've handed in the form + photo-copies, they've snatched it without looking. My 800K is in a fixed saving account and I never touch it. Normally I just grit my teeth but this year I will be away on the demand date.

Meanwhile on the roads ...

They usually call it suicide if there's any (investigative) work required.

Did she not see the warning twigs placed on the ground in front of the building work?

Obviously a trumped-up charge. Pattaya police have announced there is no prostitution on numerous occasions.

Having just mastered the on-line 90 day reporting; can anyone justify the requirement to take my up-dated 800K bankbook for a personal visit after getting my annual extension?

I wonder how much tax they paid?

With a C in 'O' level GCE General Science, (65 years ago), I am as well qualified as most Thai doctors. I stopped going to hospitals when a doctor diagnosed my long term TGF's ear infection as a STD. I bought her a new pair of head phones for her mobile + antibiotics from my local Fascinos; cured within 3 days.

I bet she got the house.

Tanks? Armoured cars? Tear Gas? Water cannon? The Army Government's answer to Democracy.

90% of Thai workers will be asked to work a full day instead of keeping police hours.