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No foreigners found violating law on buying, renting farmland in Thailand

BANGKOK: -- Concerned Thai officials will continue monitoring whether foreigners have violated law on buying or renting farmland to engage in agriculture in the kingdom although initial investigation found that such a practice does not exist, Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot said on Saturday.

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I don't know what surprises me more...Yet another "anti-foreigner" crackdown...Or the fact that they didn't find anyone!

RAZZ

Typical Banana Republic thinking. Go Philippines where foreigner investment and retirement is welcomed.

Yes, please go to the Philippines if all is better there.

Why are you still here ??

Maybe haven't got enough cash to move and that is why you stay here ?

Foreign investors and retirees are also welcome here or do you think that at the Philippines foreigners are more genuinely welcome then Thailand.

Wakey wakey !!

Anyhow, just stop crying and face it, despite some minor issues, Thailand is a beautiful place to live !!

Sooooooooo,what's new?

We can do much,much more than farm in Thailand.Like own GoGo bars,we can teach and.............anyone else know what else we can do?

I have run out of ideas.

Spend shitloads of cash and create beautiful look krueng !

So...foreigners can't do that but Bahrainis can? If you come from Bahrain you're not a foreigner?

Maybe it should be Bahtrain.

Read first before commenting.

The Thai PM will request Bahrain to buy Thai farm products !!

You can buy Thai farm products as well, just as every foreigner, so don't worry, you do not have to become Bahraini to do so.

Listen boys, In our countries in Europe and USA they are complaining why so many foreigners flock across our borders (illegally) every year, and when the Thai government wants to regulate this, we complain.

These foreigners also come to our countries of origin and want to stay and live there for one reason or another.

Anybody with enough money, a job or a good reason to be in Thailand should not have a problem acquiring a visa to stay here.

Anybody else, just go back to where you came from, just like it is in our countries of origin, no reason to complain I guess.

There are clear rules and regulations regarding visas, that's it, live with it.

In my country of origin, if I would like to take my wife to live there with me (or even for a fuc_king holiday visa), I would have to go through more hoops then in Thailand, I shit you not !!

Have just set up biz in Cambodia.

Companies can be fully 100 % owned and operated by Foreigners without having to take on Cambodian staff/partners.

100 % ownership possibility of condominiums is underway (will be effective within 2 months)

Everybody speaks very good English and is capable of thinking for themselves.

It's just a car drive (or a 50 minute flight) from Phnom Penh to the major Thai sin cities of Bangkok and Pataya, if you might be affraid of missing that action.

No restraints on bringing in or taking out foreign currencies.

Just to name a few !

So what is keeping all these Farang in Thailand, which does not want you anyhow ???

Please explain !!

Only if it is Farang prostitutes selling themselves on the Thai market, there will be trouble, I guess.

There is only 1 constant factor in these enforcements and that is "Farang". At the moment of selling/buying the land, the landownerships documents were granted by the land office and not obtained under pressure or under gunpoint so what went wrong at the moment of selling the land, to the Thai wife with Farang husband ?? Yes, right, Nobody checked where the funds came from and did not care as long as money was being made by all involved. so the question is: if the land-ownership will be revoked afterwards, will the responsible landdepartment employee also be punished and the funds used to buy the land, will they be returned to the buyers, who bought without bad intentions ??

Isnt prostitution illegal in Thailand ? ,,,,,,,,,,,i dont see that enforced and its right "in your face "

If it would be the Thai spouse's funds used to initally buy the land she would have to proof where it came from, read, paid taxes on it when it was wired into her account.

According to Thai Marital law however, if a foreigner and Thai are married without any pre-nops they share all 50-50, so half of the foreigners cash is her cash .

If at the moment of purchasing the land (for that is what this is about, not the house which can legally be owned the foreigner) both had funds worth more then double the value of the land in their bank-account and were married there should be no issue.

Otherwise just get divorsed in which case Thai courts are very eager to apply the 50-50 rule, and the land-ownership is accounted for.

I can't see how this would be enforceable. Who's to say that the money wired into the wife's account isn't hers from an overseas partnership business with her foreign spouse? And what was the deal that is signed at the land office saying that the money used to buy the land was in fact from the Thai spouse, not the foreign person?

I find the below quite hilarious:

"The tour is aimed at improving public services by land officials in three areas: dress, conduct when dealing with the public and working harder to eliminate a backlog of work.

Many members of the public have complained that it takes up to a year to complete a transaction that should only take one day, he said.

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Improving in dress? <deleted>? Conduct? Are they now not going to want some tea money to expedite things, nor a big envelope to say that such and such land is not encroaching on gov't land. Can't see this happening. Backlog taking a year? Why is that? All property transactions that I am familiar with took a day at the office and that was it.