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Puccini

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  1. Since the urologist gave you nitrofurantoin, I suggest you take that. If you're concerned about potential side effects, doxycycline also has them: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/doxycycline/side-effects-of-doxycycline/
  2. The 7% you mention is probably the Value Added Tax (VAT) For customs duty, use the tariff number 4911.99.40 The website http://itd.customs.go.th/igtf/en/main_frame.jsp shows a rate of 40% for. This is calculated on the Landed Cost: Value of the goods + Freight (eg postage fee) = Landed Cost The VAT is calculated on the Landed Cost
  3. Almost right, but probably the best one can do with a UK or US keyboard without knowing the workarounds for é and à. I have it easier with my Italian keyboard.
  4. What makes you believe that this is the case? The information that was intended to be collected with the ETA can easily be collected with the application for the TDAC, plus additional information that is necessary to determine whether the applicant is liable to pay the tourist tax. The TDAC is precisely the way that has been found to implement the tourist entry tax, in addition to the information that was earlier intended to be collected with the ETA. In other words, the TDAC combines the abandoned ETA and the tourist tax collection. See this extract from the news article: It couldn't be spelt out more clearly. We must be patient and see how this is going to be implemented if they will ever go through with it.
  5. For arrivals currently only for Thai passports, as far as I know.
  6. The way I see it, the ETA idea has been abandoned and the current plan is to introduce the TDAC:
  7. What about ศูนย์กลาง https://dict.longdo.com/search/ศูนย์กลาง Thai Rath, for example, uses ศูนย์กลาง many times in the article https://www.thairath.co.th/news/politic/2802246 ศูนย์กลางการเงิน = Finacial hub In another Thai Rath article: https://www.thairath.co.th/money/economics/asean_economics/2835905 ศูนย์กลางการผลิต = manufacturing hub In the same article, Thai Rath also uses the phonetic transcription ฮับ for hub: ฮับรถ EV = EV vehicle hub
  8. I went back to the opening post of this topic because something has been nagging me at the back of my head. @Furioso Why are the man's three or four friends so eager to get him on a plane to the UK? Does one of them have a power of attorney for his Thai bank account? What will happen to the money in that account?
  9. What does a senior crosswalk look like?
  10. Perhaps the Chinese tourists have figured out that the air in Japan is less polluted than in Thailand.
  11. It's murderous, It's criminal. Yet the number of foreign tourists is increasing. Are they all suicidal?
  12. When I read the topic title I thought that it was the murderous air pollution that prompted Thaiwan's travel warning for Thailand.
  13. What bank has frozen your money and is asking you for information and documentation, your bank or the bank of your business broker, or is the business broker telling you this? You should really be more precise if you expect to get helpful advice here.
  14. Do I understand correctly that the money is currently in the account of the "business broker" you mentioned?
  15. The OP is in Thailand Thailand and he is looking for a UK lawyer in Thailand.
  16. It's called Ignore, not Block. Click or tap on the Ignore button at the bottom right of the pop-up you posted.
  17. I can't make any sense of your post. Your links to a Youtube channel and a Facebook page are of no help.
  18. Its a sad state of affairs if pollution is continually so bad that an exceptional day of lower than dangerous levels is cause for celebration.
  19. What self is entitled Gen Z?
  20. What's a flying <deleted>?
  21. Thank you for this interesting report. I have some questions if you don't mind. Did the Kalasin tax office call you or write to ask you to go to their office and did they specify what documents you should bring? Do the documents you printed from Barclays UK show the name of the beneficiary of the transfers and the reason for them? Who, at another meeting, required the tax official urgently to take your documents? Did you submit your bank documents only for the calendar year 2024 or for "all those years" since you arrived in Thailand? What is the status of your permission to stay, eg one-year extension for marriage, employment, retirement, etc? It will be interesting to see how this new tax collection drive from expats develops.
  22. Good-bye ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation) Hello TDAC (Thai Digital Arrival Card), including the collection of the the tourist tax from travellers who fall into one of the — yet to be defined and announced — categories subject to this tax. Excerpt from the news article TDAC system will replace TM.6 paper form, reducing immigration processing times and improving efficiency in The Nation (highlighting in bold is mine): There we have it, an elegant solution to collect the tourist tax. No details of the process are available yet, but I think it will be akin to the eVisa application. Digital arrival card is a misnomer, it is really a travel authorisation. Fill out and submit the online form a specified minimum number of days before departure. If applicable, pay the tourist tax online as the final step of the online submission of the form. Get the TDAC, with a QR code or whatever, by email and print it out. Present the TDAC at check-in. No TDAC, no boarding pass, simple as that. This requirement will have to be included in the IATA rules. On arrival in Thailand, hand over the passport, TDAC and eVisa, if applicable, to the immigration official. All we can do now is hold our breath and wait to see how this will play out.
  23. Burma, latterly called Myanmar. It is fashionable to change the names of countries and cities. Back to the future. Cambodia —> Kampuchea Turkey —> Tūrkiye Bombay —> Mumbai etc, etc.
  24. Not all money may have literally changed hands, but I should think that a large sum of money must have changed from the bank account of the man to whom you refer as a "fat old bald guy" to his Thai friend to pay for the land and the construction of the house.
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