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21 minutes ago, realfunster said:

Be sure to share your experiences with the FCA. 

 

 

Yes, thanks for emphasising my point. 

5 hours ago, bodga said:

you  mean like the TM30 debacle, the 500,000 baht special new rule debacle   which has now  disappeared 

What has that got to do with what I posted?  I replied to someone who claimed that Thailand has never made anything easy for a foreigner (a ridiculous, paranoid and obviously untrue claim}, I pointed out several things that have been made easier over the years, and several things that have always been easy.  I did not say absolutely everything in the whole world is perfect.

Not sure what the TM30 or a proposed Covid entry requirement have to do with my point.

On 11/18/2020 at 1:22 PM, blackcab said:

There is some hope. The Thai passport office is highly computerised and incredibly efficient. No photocopies of any documents are required. Instead your original documents are electronically scanned in by the staff member. Digital photos, electronic fingerprints, iris scan and electronic signature.

 

Everything is highly optimised, with the minimum of everything required or produced. Passports arrive by EMS 2 days later.

 

If the passport office can do it for millions of customers each year from multiple offices around the country then it must be possible for other departments to follow suit.

Agree.  There are departments and processes which are extremely efficient.  Digital Work Permits for one.  Not a form or bit of paper to be seen.  Everything done online, then a 15 minute visit to the one stop centre for a photo (they take it}, a fingerprint scan and a digital signature.  A few minutes later you get an email with the code for your new WP.  Incredibly efficient.  And that needs cooperation between the BOI, the Ministry of Labour and the Immigration Department.

There is hope.

There are also many departments and processes which are a shambles.  The revenue department for example.  Try registering a company for VAT....

1 minute ago, rkidlad said:

Ah, but you inferred it was because you’re farang. 
 

And that’s why anecdotal evidence is often just  nonsense. 

Well yes, I assume it's because I'm a foreigner as I don't see it happening to Thais.  It's obvious we are often treated better in certain situations.  Anecdotal, yes, but undoubtedly true.

Not sure why you picked up on that rather than the poster who said Thailand does nothing to make things easier for foreigners when it clearly does.

Ho hum.

15 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Someone immediately comes over to you in the bank and let’s you push ahead of everyone else - why? 

 

Every time I go to the bank I get a ticket and wait in line like everyone else. Same when going to pay my credit card or going to True to sort out an internet issue. 

I don’t want special treatment. Just fair. 
 

 

 

I don't know why, it just happens.  Must be because I'm so handsome.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreigners working in Thailand: New Revenue Dept link to Immigration set to make life easier

 

Picture: Voice TV

 

The Revenue Department has announced that as of Wednesday foreigners working in Thailand no longer need to visit them.

 

They have set up a link with the Immigration Bureau to share data. 

 

Foreigners who need to present tax documents for the purpose of renewing and extending work visas can go to www.rd.go.th and follow the relevant links. 

 

They will be asked to allow their consent for documents to be shared as well as some other clerical matters.

 

Sommai Siriudomset said that this was all part of helping foreigners working in Thailand and they would no longer need to attend the revenue department in person. It can all be done online. 

 

Source: Voice TV

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-11-20

 

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Don't understand this.  I have worked here for 25 years and have never once been required to visit the revenue department.  Don't know anyone who has had to do this either.

22 hours ago, khunpa said:

 

Remember this is a place where the leader previously has announced, that Thai-language soon would replace English and be spoken world wide,

 

Which leader, when, and what did he say exactly?  Link please.  

4 hours ago, cheapcanuck said:

Dear Mr Cabbie.

Please don't complain when you loose more business to Grab taxi services.

Signed the Tourist feed up with the money grabbing in the LOS.

Adding 20 baht for a suitcase is money grabbing form tourists, really?  When the taxi fares are the third cheapest in the world?  Explain.  

If taxis were already expensive and they were wanting to charge even more, then yes.  But seriously, it's 20 baht on top of an extremely cheap cab ride - much cheaper than your home country unless you come from Egypt or India. 

https://www.traveldailynews.com/post/the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-taxi-fares-worldwide#:~:text=kids to hand.-,The country with the cheapest taxi fare is Egypt – a,1.68 euros) in Southeast Asia.

3 hours ago, flinc2020 said:

So, if I ( all 63kg and 5ft 6 of me) arrive on a flight with my 3 holdalls and guitar I will get charged more than three 90kg+ passengers with 2 holdalls, yeah. that seems reasonable..........

Yeah, maybe by 20 baht or so.  Best cancel your trip.  Amazing how sensitive people can be over something so trivial.  Some questions:

1.  How many times annually will you fly with these three holdalls and a guitar?
2.  How much extra will you pay over the course of a year for that?  You must be flying in and out constantly (with your guitars and holdalls) to deem it worthy of posting about.

3.  When you work out that the answers to one and two probably equal to 20-40 baht per year would you like to explain why it is such a big deal to you and your 63kg weight?

 

1 hour ago, Raphus said:

Absolute madness

Why?  

25 minutes ago, scorecard said:

No. They can easily enough point to the appropriate paragraph on the notice that hangs behind the front seats, adding a couple of suitcase graphics would help. All very easy.  

Yeah not exactly rocket science.  Just very confusing for some poor posters.

15 hours ago, Katipo said:

This is definitely the best time to be implementing measures to make it more time consuming and expensive for tourists to come to Thailand. Such foresight. Much optimism.

Right, because adding 60 cents to a cab journey that is almost certainly much much cheaper than back home is going to cause people to cancel their trips.  

It is 20 baht.  Get a grip.

And time consuming???

Excellent news (for me).  Noticed last night it looked like it was almost ready for opening.  And ahead of schedule too which is very unexpected!

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As long as they get the underground there faster than they got the airport train to Swampy.

It's already there.

On 11/13/2020 at 3:40 PM, Grumpy one said:

Me thinks you require new optical lenses

Look again, the front passenger door is on the RIGHT side of the bus

Now go look at every bus in Thailand, its on the Left  ????

By the way that is a BRT bus which does pick up passengers on the right.  Part of this project is adding a BRT lane adjacent to the khlong.

And just when you thought you had seen the glaring hole in the project, sorry to burst your bubble.

On 11/12/2020 at 7:31 PM, soi3eddie said:

A utopian dream scene amongst the stench of the canal, traffic fumes and incessant noise of Tuk Tuks and passing trucks. Lovely. 

Welcome to TVF, the most miserable forum on earth.

A story about an improvement to the landscape in Bangkok and the very first reply is dripping with negativity, soon to be followed by more of the same with one poster even picking holes in a door on a bus in the background.    Life must be miserable to be so utterly negative all the time.