jayboy

When I die my Thai wife will be paid a pension from offshore.The pension is denominated in £ and will be remitted monthly to her bank account in Thailand where it will of course be converted into Thai Baht.She does not currently submit a Thai tax return because she has insufficient personal income to make it necessary. I am assuming however that she will be required to pay income tax on the pension. We have no problem with this but am uncertain about practicalities.Does she for instance need to take the initiative in approaching the Tax Office? Will the Bank ask whether tax is being paid or just pay the amount gross into her account? I estimate the gross before tax amount will be around Baht 200,000. I will be taking specialist advice about this in due course but wondered whether anybody had any insights.

The ludicrous restaurant owner was at fault.She was the one who brought in the police over really nothing at all. And as to the effusive words of praise of her victim, she was obviously trying to bring the whole foolish episode to an end - perhaps reinforced by a double helping of 'prachot'.

The owner is so "lovely" that she reports customers to the police for trivial reasons? Does the owner understand that her reputation is not in fact "intact" and that many will now avoid her establishment? Almost certainly she has not heard of the Barbra Streisand effect - i.e where taking legal action has the opposite effect of what was intended. And why is that dish of Khao phat the size of a hippo?

"The new bivalent jab targets both the original strain of the virus and its Omicron variant. The manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna have had vaccines approved by the medicines regulator and the NHS will use both." According to The Times (see above) the new booster will be available to initially vulnerable target groups in the next couple of months most of whom have already had four jabs. When will the new bivalent jab be available in Thailand? Most hospitals still have large stocks of the old Moderna vaccine.Will they want to run down these stocks first?

That's also true in my case and I should imagine most financially stable residents, whether Thai or expatriate.

Many thanks (and to others that took the time to reply). Just what I needed and I can now see my QR Code on my app. If I want to send my QR Code to someone presumably it's just a matter of sending a screenshot?

I've been using Prompt Pay for some time and regularly make payments ( of all kinds) against QR codes. However I'm not sure how I obtain a QR code which enables other people to make Prompt Pay payments to my bank account. Any ideas?

Surely you are mistaken.I would have thought Thai Visa was the perfect forum to get answers on the great philosophical questions of the universe and our very existence.After all who better to provide illumination on these age old issues than a bunch of middle aged/elderly ex-blue collar retirees?

It would indeed be good news but in my view is as likely to happen as being decapitated by an errant frisbee.

It's important not to consume more than your own body weight in a single sitting.