mokwit

Could go one further and get a 90 day visa for Vietnam with no such requirements.

Oh dear, he won't be well enough to serve his sentence. He will have to be released on health grounds. He will of curse be well enough to engage in politics and money making after his release - might even find time for the grandchildren.

Things got much harder for use starting with him and continued that way through successive Governments, accelerating again under the Army. Prior to Thaksin it was a 'free and easy' environment.

They are, they overpay. Bumrungrad and the Soi5 taxi touts are having a field day.

Don't see how that is relevant. The Imam tells them how to vote after telling Labour what they want - how do you think we got Shariah courts? Blair probably blanched at that one.

This, and ghost in pre owned units.

I think the Labour party thought that they could replicate the structure of the Union vote - meet with a few key individuals (imams) who would then tell their underlings how to vote.

We will be back to nothing getting done other than contract disbursement. The good old days for Falangs in Thailand ceased when Thaksin got enough of a majority to have complete control and stamp his personal desires on everything.

The point here is that they are not going to jeapardise a company policy deal over one Bt7m claim, if you take it out on your own you are on your own is my understanding of the insurance market. Knew somebody who drove here because he was under Global corporation insurance, said never would if had to buy personal insurance - reasoning as above. BTW Prompt unquestioning payment of small claims is a cost viable customer retention strategy (vs customer acquisition cost).

Not been to lower Sukhumvit lately? The "Muslim Area" now extends from Soi3/1-Soi 5 (where it always was as the all welcome"Arab Soi") to Soi 13 [the border for now].

Wriggle clause.

Huh, whats that?

48, not married [?] - seems likely he is another "Elite" [alleged] criminal.

There are hundred to choose from.

What do you have to support your claims? You'll be showing us all the documentation to support your claims of correct duty by couriers and your successful reclaim of duty from Customs in that case.

Because someone on a retirement extension doesn't work here and thus doesn't get exposure to aspects of how things work here and certainly is not immersed in things as a Thai running a business would be.

It was an article in the Bangkok Post many years go.

So it never happened that someone correctly declared the value or description and Thai Customs applied another value (or category) - which they do - they have set values for some items.

That is why there was a cacophony of complaints by Thai businesses about it, Liverpool Lou a foreigner on a retirement extension (probably) knows better than them. They were complaining about something that didn't even exist according to Lou. Correctly declared or not is decided by Thai Customs who are the judge in the case. Again, there is a "normal rate" but the schedule allows for duty up to 60% or even 100%. Thai customs are looking for things that have been wrongly declared or deliberately mislabeled in an attempt to evade the correct duty because that is where they can extract the most money, but it can come down to an interpretation by one officer whether the declaration (value or description) is correct or not. The situation was (don't know if it still is) that if you felt that interpretation was wrong you could appeal but if Customs who were the judge in the matter ruled it was correct you were charged 5x the duty.

The duty on the paperwork to customs may be the correct duty but you pay way more with a courier as people on this board regularly attest. It is a profit centre for them. It seems you have never imported anything via courier - I first got stung for 100% duty by them in 1995. With Thai customs, apart from one 100% charge it has never been more than 15-30%.

The 5x may have been changed because it was so unfair - I pointed out that might be dated. You are the person who was telling everyone how easy it was to reclaim incorrectly assessed duty - you then admitted you had never done it. Told us all you just 'phoned the hotline, explained how it was wrong and they sent you a cheque if I remember rightly. That doesn't sound like how things work in Thailand. So please tell us how you go about dealing with an incorrect assessment (I remember now I was charged 100% by Thai Customs, but that is unusual). there is a normal rate often 15-30% but the schedule for each category allows for up to 60 or even 100%.

This is for duties applied by Customs themselves. Few avail themselves of this opportunity because if Thai Customs, who are the judge in the case, find you are wrong to claim i.e. thye duty was correctly applied they charge you 5x what they originally charged (this may have changed but it certainly was the case).

Nope. If you send thing normal post and it is dutiable you pay the correct duty applied by Thai Customs - I don't think I have been charged more than 30%, most things 15%. With couriers, especially rhymes with Hell, you pay way more.

Meanwhile Thailand requires all kinds of proofs for their 60 day tourist visa - extendable with TM30 docs. Thailand deserves to lose every tourist it loses to Vietnam. Perhaps the Vietnamese don't know that tourists become a threat to "National Security" after 30 days.

'Stealing profits that rightfully belong to Thais' card might be played.