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If you got the passport while inside the country I'm pretty sure they move the 'paper passport insert' over to the new passport when you transfer the entry stamp to the new passport. I did this once a while back. If you get the new passport while out of the country then my guess if that you need to do it again with the new passport in order to get the 90 day report and if I were doing this I would take the old passport along with me and say 'nothing changed'....then see what they say.

It's almost like they're deterring you from submitting this, I'm doing the less than 180 days thing at the moment until the dust settles which may or may not happen this year - then I'll give it another year just for good measure. I've already got a place to live in Phnom Penh so that suits me just fine.

Yeah, now that makes sense.

Yeah that valuation is complete nonsense, even Coke or Heroin would be MUCH cheaper than that in any country in the world including the hard to smuggle countries. Conclusion - they're all lying through their teeth. I wonder what else they lie about?

But I don't smoke weed, is it compulsory now 🙄

These things come with many strings attached

From what I've read it mentions nothing about a limited time one off temporary measure - it sounds like it's going to be a rolling thing going forward. Still that's just my interpretation of someone elses translation of something they heard. I look forward to the actual details on this, currently I'm remitting whatever I want as I now stay more than half the year in Cambodia - I'll likely stop doing that in a year or two if it's ongoing - if it's not ongoing then I will continue as I am now because they're not getting a single Baht out of me.

Now you mention it they might have asked me to confirm the rate in the phone call but I had just woken from a deep sleep as they phoned me in the morning so I was still half asleep while speaking to them

Crumbling coalition?

Just tell them no, that's not the way it works - and you know how it works now. Any mortgage company will have an outstanding settlement balance that requires paying before they remove their lien from the deed, this is paid by the purchaser. When making any purchase I've only bought from 'the wealthy' so it's normally very straightforward, they own the land outright, no mortgage and have done so for decades so you simply pop along to the bank and get a bank draft / cashiers check for the right amount then stick it in the wifes name. This is so simple compared to the west where they want to know where the money came from through lawyers - here money really does talk and they don't seem to care at all. If there's someone who has a lien that needs to be satisfied then get a full completion amount in Baht that needs paying in order for them to remove the lien from the chanote - doesn't matter who they are - bank, friend, whoever - so long as they will remove it for the known fee - you can then get the check to make the payment. So when there's a mortgage with equity in it you get 2 bank drafts/cashiers checks, one for the bank or whoever owns the lien on the property and one for the remaining part of the selling price and that's how it's done - the bank will send someone to the land office to collect payment as mentioned by a few others and remove the lien on the chanote - then it can be sold to a new buyer. If you think they're lying then get the chanote and it should be printed on the back of it - will all be in Thai but there's a handy app called 'Google Lens' which can translate anything in real time...... If they owe more than it's selling for which is quite possible then that's an entirely different situation.

The last time I sent more than $50k USD, it was $55k in fact, they phoned me up and asked me what it was for, I told them and that was fine - I think they literally just need to enter some kind of code against it. This was Kasikorn. That was worth about 1.9 million at the time if I remember correctly. Seconds after the phone call the SMS alerting me to the deposit arrived.

If they can extract this then it's not going to be worth a fraction of what it's worth these days.

They're also used for those who purchase holiday homes, apartments as a winter getaway, etc Thailand should think of itself and not care if someone is avoiding tax in some foreign country that does nothing for them - why should they care at all, costs Thailand nothing and increases remittances by non residents. Places like Jersey, the Isle of Mann and a few other Countries spring to mind - like these - all of whom seem to be doing ok : Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Dominica They're in it for themselves, not subjugated by others for foreign interests.

Maybe it was some fancy gourmet <deleted>?

The mistake is thinking 'The Empire' is the US, it's actually Europe and they are not a force for good.

What about the visa runners?

I guess they better hurry up and make any changes if they want the annual mass remittance event which happens at the beginning of January every year to happen. Then again if they begin it immediately then it would exclude remittances in the current year even if realized in the current year which would be this year. Some clarification would be nice though.

I saw someone get killed once, just a stupid argument between two bunches of friends, throat cut with machete and he died. Ambulance comes - he's still alive apparently, dies later, guy does about 2-3 years inside - then released and walking around like nothing happened. That's in Thailand. Now back in the UK I know some absolute moron who killed his next door neighbour - I didn't see that but heard about it and knew the guy all too well - some dick who attended the same school as me, wasn't clear why he killed his neighbour but he got caught immediately - guy always was a retard - he's where he belongs now - doing life. Should have been kept in longer on his previous sentences but the inevitable will always happen in the end with these types.

Good luck with that, since Bayer suddenly and for no admitted reason pulled out of the Thai market for aspirin it's been nearly impossible to get hold of. However - it does exist in some pharmacies but not in the 500mg size. I have seen 300mg enteric coated Aspirins in various places - the brand name is Asprex and they come in strips - there's also a bottle which contains 100's of similar enteric coated tablets that you can get. Two of the above is near enough......

An immediate arrest and prosecution should deter others, apparently everyone is subject to the law, that's the rumour anyway

I'm down here in Phnom Penh at the moment, and the Thai Mrs is with me, she has been getting a little concerned about being Thai and in Cambodia. I told her not to worry about anything - not that this will do anything though. Now she's a member of some Hua Hin facebook gossip group and many people were reporting hearing weapons fire over the last week - which is odd - I've never heard anything, I don't know where their firing range is for larger weapons as we're not talking about small arms fire here. It's a hot topic right now and they think it's related to Cambodia.

Indeed, I first bought one of these a while back, maybe 10 years ago because the constantly changing chairs I was using were starting to irritate my lower back, I went through 3 or 4 of them over a year or so before giving up with the cheaper ones. I've never had any back problems at all previously but do sit on my ass in front of a computer for many hours every day and have done so for 30+ years So I bought an Aeron from Bangkok, when in Cambodia for half the year these days where I can't find an Aeron on sale at all, anywhere - I bought something which is kind of similar and does the job. So I nipped those future lower back issues in the bud as soon as they started to appear as a mild discomfort long ago and it's well worth it, I find it amazing what a difference a simple chair can make and where I previously laughed at those big companies paying $1000+ per chair for their employees I now understand entirely why they do it. Lots of chairs will injure you over long term use and that results in lawsuits for the employer - this avoids the problem which avoids the lawsuit!

Well now you know why this differed from the proper experience - they got it wrong - probably quite rare - but they're owning it so it's inconvenient but problem solved. You got your money back - simply order it again. Normally this does not happen, I've placed many orders with Amazon Export / International from the US or whatever they call it - all with taxes prepaid which is a system they operate in both Thailand and Cambodia (and who knows where else) where I've also received deliveries by both DHL and UPS - as recently as earlier this month with UPS in Cambodia.

Indeed, personally I like the Aeron by Herman Miller - you can order them online and they ship they via Fedex from Pergo Thailand. This is considered a reasonably high end office chair. Not cheap though 😂

It's quite likely they didn't - you think that stop at Heathrow was random?