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150,000 (0-150,000 Baht is exempt)

+60,000

+30,000

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240,000 Baht (20,000 Baht/month) = no tax liability (though I'm not sure if you still have to file the PND91)

Hurraah - money back next spring. My withheld tax of 417 Baht a month was based on 0-100,000 tax-exempt that used to be the figure until very recently, which meant there were 50,000 more Baht to pay 10% for.

Haven't heard about any RD-demands for filing PND 91 if you are below the tax-limit, but they are happy to issue a 0.00 receipt if you do and such one serves well as documentation if your extension is based on salary earned by someone under the limit like e.g. man and wife who combine their income to make it 40,000 (no tax money back to wife - she had some extra deductions that brought her 240,000 below the tax-limit also under the old calculations).

Not much. My (official) income is 240,000 baht/year for witch I pay 417 baht a month without any deductions except the ones that apply to all with regular employee status. In case you are in a situation where you can't deduct anything but the generally applicable things, you should ad 10% of 25,000 divided by twelve to my monthly payments to get yours.

By the way: The important evidence for immigration is the receipt - not the amount. Receipts showing 0.00 are valid documentation, that could make a difference.

I'd say common sense is better than wishful thinking and references to obscure paragraphs. You can all rest assured that in case your extension depends on income earned in Thailand, supporting tax-documentation as listed by tywais is the standard - (although obscure exception may have happened). As both an employer and employee I know that the only documentation regarding your income - as an employee - that is provided by your employer and which proves he has ever passed anything along to any authority - are the tax-papers with receipts associated with filing tax. Of all the work/finance-related papers I submit at my yearly extensions the tax-receipts are the only ones I haven't produced and authorized myself. Immigration knows that this is the situation for all (private) employer/employee situations and thus tax receipts are essentials.

On a side-note: tywais tax-doc with receipts will also be about the only proof for an employee that the withheld tax actually is known to RD - which again would be the only proof that you've actually got the workpermit the employer claims to have obtained for you but never shown...

My tip would be that they should master walking before attempting such advanced stuff as bicycling. Step one: make it possible to take a walk from one end of the considered stretch to the other without having to get out in the middle of the traffic every 30 meter to get around dinner tables and other obstacles. Usually the associated kitchen is situated where the bicycle lane supposedly would be going. Imagine how far out into the motortraffic bicyclist would have to go to get around pedistrians trying to get around taxis standing on the outer side of food stalls serving tables blocking the sidewalk.

Hey, maybe that's a solution: make the bicycle lanes on the outer side of all traffic (and maybe add some appropriately sized Spanish nails to the lane marking).

I can give you some figures and leave it up to you to calculate percentages if you deem it useful. The situation was different than yours. After having submitted the VAT-report for January this year I discovered I had lost the receipt for one of the filed expenses and thus did not have proof of all the subtracted output-VAT.

After having been in deficit 30 days, I submitted the form stating that I had paid 163.77 Baht too little at the previous filing. Despite my humble look they charged me 174.42 Baht - meaning a fine/interest/whatever of 10.65 Baht... Percentage calculation up to those who bother.

I heard a rumor that there was a tourist in town.

Any body see him..???????

He has doubled and patronized my place for almost an hour now - they're German if that should make a difference for some statitics?

While we're on the subject... I read somewhere that there were over 100 Wats inside the old city. I have always wondered if that number was accurate.

Wondering where you read that. There are supposed to be around 30 wats in the old city.

36 active temples within the old city area (based on a Google search).

I can confirm this as an exact, actual figure, assuming that 'active' means large enough for monk's living quarters and not that Buddha isn't serviced at the site in question anymore. To the 36 should (maybe?) be added two small sites, which most people wouldn't recognize as a Wat, but nonetheless are named as such on many maps. One is the small isolated stupa/chedi (?) at the intersection of Prapokklao and Ratchamanka, the other is the isolated Buddha a bit down the street on your left when standing in front of and facing the 3-kings monument.

My confirmation is based on an empirical, first hand, first person shooter research on location at ground level. I've got photos from 38 Wats (including the 2 which may not deserve the label) all located inside the moats. During the quest of obtaining the photos I made it very sure there weren't any unknown wat hiding down some obscure branch of any side sois to the main soy of the area that was staked for that day's photo session.

Wonder if the two isolated sites above, have ever been part of any complete Wat compund?

Today's profit were a measly 600 baht - last year the daily profits in mid September were in the range of 3-1200 Baht a day. No way would I ever take a day with maybe only 400 B to pocket as a meaure of how things are going in Thailand. Certainly September is low as always - is it actually lower than always?

My apologies - I had forgotten the good old old saying: "If you can't make it anyways - you can always become an English teacher" - No offense meant to English teachers as such --- just a punch at those who never thought of being an English teacher until someone else mentioned that as a solution to "How can I possibly stay in Thailand with my girlfriend , which I can't afford to bring back to my homecountry" --- or something similar.

In a somewhat different argument, on a somewhat different board, about how many people lived inside the moats, I recently had to to try convince the audience that there couldn't possibly live 300,000 people in those (mainly 1-2 storey high) one-family estates with a lot of empty space and temple compounds between them as revealed by the minimum 5-year old Google-photos. By means of those outdated photos, however, I came to the conclusion that the inner moat area amounts to about 2.2-2.5 sqkm. I don't know, though, if the audience were convinced about my estimates of max 30-50,000 inner-moat inhabitants, rather than the 300,000 some long time resigned male mayor were quoted for having stated and which were the figure that caused my protest on that board.

What's your guess? - How many people lives in the inner moat area (not counting high season guesthouse occupancy - just residents).

No.

And I wouldn't call ThaiVisa any good, in this respect, neither --- nothing to see here, just move on to the next click in your Google list - (most of the honored members on this board are retirees and thus have no clues on job-seeking and such), --- but might chime in regardless.

What I see in my 'shop' is a rise in medium to low budget patrons from places like East Europe, South Europe, Middle East, Russia, SE Asia - all countries from where my tv-screen has shown lots of bloodshed in the streets throughout the years I sat watching television in my comfy home country. I'm sure seasoned comfort travelers will avoid anything that just smells a tiny bit of disturbance and thus cancel trips by the plenty due to the current unrest, but I don't see any downturn 'cause I've never catered to that kind of guys anyways.

I just cant see that anyone, indigineous or not would operate and run a loss making business...

No, and probably there are very few second hand bookshops, internet cafees, coffee shops, French micro cuisines, etc... that actually do make actual LOSSES .... I know, this city is flooded with guys running small street level businesses (I used to be one, and partly still am) of the kind that neither they nor any of their competitors can possibly make a decent living out of. But running a business you can't live by is different from running a business you loose money on.

Let's e.g. take a (quarter/semi/full) retiree that loves books and buys/rent a bookshop with accommodations upstairs. Let's say he bought the business as turn key - ready to go for 3-500,000 Baht. Well, if he never sold a single book all of those 3-500,000 Baht would obviously be money gone from the bank-account... But that's also about it, money loosing wise... Of course, if he changes his mind 2 weeks later and sells the shop for half of what he paid, he'd have lost (relatively) big, but on the other hand - if he keeps it going with a measly 30-50,000 baht a month turnover and a 15% margin, he would not only have had free books to read, but the business would have paid the utility bills and part of the rent, which are costs he'd have had anyways.... If he hangs on long enough there'll come a day where the balance on his bank-account will be larger than if he'd never spend those 3-500,000 Baht in the first place... And, there actually do exist people that enjoys life much more in an easy chair in the back of a dusty bookshop than lying on a dirty beach full of ice cream and massage hawkers - so even if the bank account went down a bit on the adventure, he might have had a (to him) more enjoyable couple of retirement years.

Not exactly a great business model for the young ones with their career in front of them - but lots of (semi)oldies with their career behind them and with a supporting pension seems to enjoy life in Chiang Mai in this manner... And exactly this circumstance is what makes it hard for those of us that are too old to make a career, but too young to be supported by pensions.

(Replying only to the header of this thread)

... hmm - Well, these threads about how hard business in Chiang Mai is hit by this or that ripple on the political scene pop up once in a while. Although, going on only my 4'th. season in a (partly) tourist oriented field, I ain't quite as seasoned as certain other posters, I haven't but seen business grow (on a small scale) year by year when comparing e.g. this August with its predecessors. I'm not much of a business analytic so I wonder why my experience is different from so many others?

Let's hope that booze head's dump is replaced by an establishment that doesn't force you to walk out in the middle of traffic to get around tables, food stalls, parked cars etc.

I Can't belive this forum, Water & plexiglass...

Nobody interested in what is going on here?

Can't answer on behalf of Nobody, but I - for one - am not.

Google

This question is not for me but for a friend of course:

Downloading pornography means copying the data to your own computer, so does this mean that it is OK to view pornography on the web as long as you do not copy it?

You can't view anything, from the web, on your monitor until it's actually downloaded to your computer. While you sit there, staring at the cutie - you've got some illegal collection of bytes sitting right there in your very own property for which you are 120% liable and punishable to the strictest extent of the law we're talking about in this thread.

I do not know about Brother laser printers, but if its anything like my Lexmark I would expect toner refilling a bit more expensive than the refilling of ink. I also think one should take care that the refill shop has toner that actually is suitable for your brand. I've got both good and bad experiences.

The good ones were with a guy in the back left corner in Icon Plaza (Well, I always mix up the names of those two computer places next to each other on the Northern moat, but only one of them has a print refill shop in the back left corner). First time he charged 600 Baht for replacing the original chip on the cartridge with one that would fool the printer into believing that the refill were done by authorized Lexmark people. The refill itself was 500 Baht. Second time no chip replacement, so only 500 Baht. Both times things all worked perfectly with absolutely no way to tell the difference between the refills and genuine brandnew Lexmark cartidges at 2300 Baht a piece.

Unfortunately, third time the guy was out of the right kind of toner, which he honestly told. I found another toner refiller (in the other of the above shops). After only a few printouts the paper started to get black stripes, which gradually worsened. I cleaned the printer and gave things a second try. Same thing. I gave up, cleaned the printer and bought a new cartridge. Hopefully, the first guy has got his stock refilled when the toner runs out.

Wonder if any of the posters, stating that if your 'next day' is on a Sunday - you're next to dead if you don't go on the Friday before, have ever tried to go there the Monday after? --- In my experience the officials at immigration aren't any different than the guys at the tax-office - they are too used to guys being a bit late to consider that as neither an issue nor an "excuse" for kicking some farang in a special manner. But feel free, be as paranoid as you prefer.

In my inner-city neighborhood the neighbors have always been aware that robbers could walk in from the street and buglers could break in anywhere they could break in, including the roof. Sorry to hear the problem has spread out to the rosy gardened moo-bahns in the outskirts.

... as for item 5 - that's a standard thing for just about any website trying to "sell" something. What do you want to know? Any particular area? Do you want to know how to make it or how to run it? You run it by putting it on a host accessible by the world and watch how well it is doing - simple as that ... How to make it is a different matter ... What's your question about?

I'm merely responding to the heading of this thread "Recycling In Cm - What Can We Recycle?". The question comes up on this board once in a while and I haven't bothered to read replies to see whether it has been appropriately answered, already.

Nevertheless, according to my experience, anything just remotely recyclable both can and will be recycled regardless of whatever you do to it except burning it in your condo. I live in the old city in a house with a balcony, where I enjoy to sit an hour or two reflecting on life and the world situation in general. Sometimes, I sit there late at night / early in the morning and watch the street life.

I owe to tell that in the inner city garbage is disposed of by putting the garbage bag out in front at closing/bed time where it will be collected by the municipal garbagetrucks in the early morning between 4 and 6 am every day of the year. However, in the timelapse between the garbage is put out and the municipal truck comes around about a million scavengers have searched through the garbage. I've seen some late scavenger going through the garbage, after 999,999 other scavengers have been investigating, and carefully pick out some tiny piece of paper, carefully scraping off the dogshit and placing it in his treasure trailer. On to the next half emptied garbage bag.

So, anyone having problems getting rid of recyclable garbage - in case you are serious - just put it in a plasticbag and bring it down to any curb in the inner city after dark. You can't but make someone happy by doing so!

I'll suggest environment conscious condo dwellers - not knowing how to dispose of recyclables - put anything of glass in a separate bag and place it near the garbage shaft, it WILL be collected. Dump everything else in the shaft, it WILL be searched through a million times by guys who know where to get money for such stuff ... And no! - you are not helping the world the least by separating things in a numbers of different containers beforehand. The only thing you'll accomplish be doing so is to provide recyclables in a convenient manner to security guards and others on a fixed salary working in your condo building. By carefully sorting your garbage the only thing you'll accomplish is to make sure guys on the lower levels of the "scavenger-chain" will find fewer treasures to put in their treasure trailer.

You will find Amnuay and many other notably good businesses in the recommendations threads in the sub forum.

Hmm ... Businesses to recommend relegated to some subforum. Businesses to avoid like the plaque pinned on top of the main page as to make sure that'll be the first seen... Personal preferences clearly detected.

Not so hasty? This young man obviously is in dire need of a lot of help from experienced persons. Didn't you notice the questionmark in:

"We've had some replies from local brokers who told us not to believe the prices advertised in the real estate websites, because that is a scam ?"

So, since he doesn't know how to judge by himself - which are more reliable: real estate brokers without a website or real estate brokers with a website?