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It brings back some bad memories to read this story. Here is what happened.
After a long night out, you come back to your hotel room with your girlfriend or whoever. Drunk, maybe some drugs involved, but feeling on top of the world. After a nice hour or so in bed, you just need that last sigarette before you go to sleep. Naked, feeling free, and still on top of the world, you go out on the balcony. Your eyes start to slip, but you just need to finish off that sigarette. Suddenly, you find yourself off balance, falling forward, your hip hits the rail, your arms shoot down to grab the rail, not realizing that your arms are already outside the rail, creating a pivoting motion that throws you over...and you are statistics.
I can play this incident in slow motion in my head over and over again, after this exact thing happened to me a few years back, except for the statistics part (and drugs). I am only 172 cm, but were very close to pivot over the rail. I am sure if I had been 5-10 cm taller, I would not have had a chance.
I do not say that something like this happened here, but I know now how easy a lethal accident like this can happen under the right circumstances. Be careful out there!
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I wonder if anyone in this forum can help me with some information about liability and practice here in Thailand when your dog bites a person.
This is the situation: While we were away during Songkran, our son invited some friends over to our house. We have a small dog, and one of the girls sat down on the floor to play with him. Without any warning, the dog jumped up and bit her in the face. It took 11 stitches on her upper lip to close the wound, so it was quite severe. Her own insurance took care of the medical expenses.
Now we are waiting for her parents to contact us, and I assume the question of compensation will be brought up.
Would appreciate any relevant input in what to expect, and reference to any laws or practice on the matter.
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Due to relocation, I will have to sell my Toyota Fortuner 3.0 4D "Smart". The car was registered 01/2008, app km 32000, black colour, service history.
I try to avoid having to sell it to a second hand dealer, and will let it go to the first one offering THB 890.000. This is about THB 450.000 down from new price!! The car is in very good condition.
Bangkok area.
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I am evaluating the possibility to start a company and sell/support European made and branch specific software.Does anybody have any info on import duty and tax on software, or know where I can find such info (have already tried customs www)? Appreciate any info. Thank you!
Some important lessons on DHL and import duty calculations
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I thought I should share a couple of cases I have had with DHL so that you might avoid these surprises when receiving your goods. The two cases are both purchases from online stores abroad, and concerns import duty calculations. I will assume other express delivery companies will do that same, so DHL is only used as example since I only have experience with them.
Some time back I ordered some sailing equipment from the US. The package included some hardware, sunglasses, and also a pair of sailing glows which was valued at about 10% of the total package value. The "90%" other items should have an import duty of 10% and the glows 30%. To my surprise, DHL calculated import duty as 30% on all items, i.e. the package total.
Lesson 1: DHL will identify the item in your shipment with the highest import duty rate, and will apply this rate to the total shipment value when calculating import duty and VAT.
I have ordered same types of "mixed" items sent through regular post, and the Thai customs handling these shipments have split items into correct tax rates. Not sure if this is consistent procedure by them, but has happened on the two occasions I have experienced.
Recently I purchased some bicycle equipment from an online store in the UK. The total amount came to about 11,000 baht, and shipment was included in the purchase price. I expected to pay about 2,000 baht in Import duty (10%) and VAT. To my surprise, I had to pay more than 5,000 baht. The answer is in a calculated freight cost.
Even if freight is included in your purchase, DHL will calculate a freight cost either based on actual weight or based on a calculated volumetric weight formula. The HIGHEST of these will be used and added to your purchase cost before import duty and VAT is calculated. The weight in kilos will be multiplied by 590 baht to get the freight cost. In my case, a package weighing about 5 kilos had a volumetric weight of 27 kilos, and the freight value was about 16,000 baht. So instead of being taxed based on my 11,000 baht purchase price, I was taxed based on 27,000 baht.
I will add that in my case the seller did not give any alternative to DHL, which will often be the case for bicycle wheels, frames etc.
Lesson 2: DHL will add freight cost before taxes are calculated, even if it is included in the purchase. They will use the highest of actual weight and volumetric weight, so be aware of the volumetric weight used on large and light parcels. For those with special interest, volumetric weight is by DHL calculated using cm as:
(height*width*length)/5000, in my case (50*30*90)/5000=27 kg, which multiplied by 590 baht results in a freight of about 16,000 baht.