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Jesus! The Thais really know how to take the fun out of the World Cup.

Cambodia poor? I never saw so many Rang Rovers in one place as in Cambodia.

...in English and HD???

Need more info please.

encountering the pair on Walking Street in South Pattaya. He allegedly offered them 1,000 Baht and they accompanied Mr. Hoff to his house where the alleged sexual assaults took place.

cared for following a previous case of sexual assault involving the pair.

I have to say there is something fishy about this story. The two boys where involved in sexually assault before and already staying in the care centre and all they think of is going to Walking Street and after all agreed to go with the American.

Are these boys just stupid? They are old enough to understand what is going on.

But in any case the American is a pervert and should put behind bars.

I don't understand why there is no Firefox Browser for Mobile devices?

There's an Android version, and an ipad version......

According to FireFox...

Is Firefox available for iPhone or iPad?

Apple's restrictions prevent us from bringing the current version of Firefox to iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). We are researching new ways to make Firefox for iOS but there are no definite plans for a release at this time.

....so what version of FF for IPad you are using?

Thailand F****d up the WC 4 years ago and now they will do it again. They never manage to broadcast a decent WC. Stupid people.

 

John Kerry tells fugitive Edward Snowden to 'man up'

Easy to say for him in his position to tell Snowden to "man up". Someone should tell Kerry to 'man up" A$$hole!

When you establishing a new company you have to tell the lawyer who gets how many shares. I got 50%. Simply as that.

When I say "ownership" I mean to say "shares" I don't know if that is the same thing. My English is not perfect.

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So you do have four Thais working in the company ? Or did you manage to get a WP without them ?

From talking to someone who set up a business locally, you do indeed need four Thai employees per work permit. He only has two employees the last I heard but pays tax and social security etc for both of them and two "fictional" employees.

Alan

As I understand one WP for one forigner equals four Thai employees. Additional to the two Thai shareholders. You do not pay salary/tax for shareholders.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Obviously you didn't do very good job of researching the situation, all of this is common knowledge. Also, you do not get a "B" Visa in Thailand, you would be getting a one year extension of your permission to stay.

In order to get a B-Visa in Thailand you need to have already a B-Visa (which I had from my home country) and you can only apply 2 weeks before the immigration stamp in your passport is due to expire. Than you get a one month extension (single or multiple entry) and after you will get the 1 year B-Visa (single or multiple entry) In my case I had to provide the pictures of my office. Which I didn't. Although I submitted all required documents.

Thanks to all of you who put your time and effort in reading my Thread and posting your comments. I appreciate it.

Sorry, I couldn't fit all the quotes in one post.

You are going to be bitterly disappointed doing business here.

Yeah right. Such a BS.

Why would you really wish to set up a business in Thailand? Why not in your home country?

Or is it you think you can make a mint in the Kingdom?

The rules are there to make sure that as you make lots of money and order your Porsche - a bit is spread around to the locals.

I choose to live in Thailand 10 years ago and I love this country. I have no intend to go back to my home country permanently.

You may find that you will not get a multiple entry non-b in your home country as easy as you have in the past.

Why you think that?

Setting up a home business is not easy in Thailand, but it is no different to most other companies in the world.

They are encouraging you to have an office and thai staff, to basically contribute to the country. As far as my business is concerned there was a requirement to prove that i have some local investment, assets and general capital in the company. If i recall it was 3 Thai staff for each expat and/or 3m baht in capital for each expat WP.

I know as the director, i have to travel to HK for my multiple-non B and that is only processed on receipt of a copy of all registration documents, copy of the 'Office Address, rental agreement and a map of the office location', tax ID certificate, 12 months bank statements, payroll summary for all Thai employees, etc, etc. 90% of the paperwork they hand back to me after flicking through the pages and pulling out what they wanted to keep...

There are other means however, you can find a virtual office or serviced office. For a monthly fee, they will provide you with an address, post box, telephone number and you should be able to register your tax ID at the local office nearby. If you don't actually have a room and a desk there, the costs maybe somewhere around 3000 or 4000 baht a month.

Although you need to check if the virtual office is okay for ongoing, local business and invoicing……or whether it can only be used as a sales office with no monthly invoicing and income?

Thank you for giving me the Idea with the serviced office. I will seriously look into that. Maybe for a long term it is the best solution!?!

They want I rent a office, place the 4 Thai stuff member behind a desk, all in the same uniform (me too) and take pictures. What the hell is wrong with this people? I told them I won't do it due to safe my monthly costs. I can do everything by myself and working from my home is totally fine for me.

Is it so difficult to understand ?

The Thai's do NOT want you to have YOUR company in TH, but you generating income, jobs and salary for Thais. And.. for Thais only.

Therefore: 51% Thai ownership ( where they ever should get their part of the company capital from, not an ash is interested )

The aim is NOT that YOU earn money, but that money flows into Thailand.

So: a company driver, a company cleaner, a company garden keeper, a company cook, a company gate-keeper, a...

As soon as your bank account and your wallet are as empty as.... you are kicked out to leave . No reason for a visa anymore, so.. get lost... elsewhere.

I had 50% ownership before. But in this case if you want to have a B-Visa you need to obtain a "business license" which cost you 2.5 Million Baht. So we changed the ownership to 49%

Getting a work permit has rules.

The first rule is that yu have to have employees and be paying them at least 300 baht a day.

They want to see the actual set up for your company.

You obviously did this on your own without any legal advise.

The first thing I was told was that i had to have the money, an office, 2 paid Thai staff and an office that i worked out of and that they had desks or duties at.

The fact that you have a business that you do all the work tels me that it is not a company that is dealing with Thai's.

That will be an issue.

My suggestion is that youget thee to a shop that embroiders names and logos on some golf shirts. If nothing else it will appease the god;s and also it will not hurt for advertising.Rent a small office that will hold your staff.

have someone shoot a small video with you introducing one of your staff and then them introducing the others and stating who they are and what they do.

There are plenty of locatins that you can get a cheap office or if you are doing it out of your house then put up a shingle on the front.

OH ONE LAST THING

QUIT YOUR BATCHING AND MOANING BECAUSE YOU MISSED A DETAIL.

Be happy you caught it now and not at tax time when you will be expected to make all the necessary paymetns for your staff and show that you paid them.

I am not "dealing" with Thais all the time. I am running a international trading company. I don't want to say to much about what my company is exactly doing because I don't know who is reading here. But I can say this, what I am doing I have done for the past 10 years successfully as an employee (even for a Thai company) and I was thinking to use my knowledge and "contacts" to start my own business.

Hello Community,

End of 2013 I opened my Thai company and did everything by the books. I got 49% shares and was declared as the Director. Since this year I have my WP. (The two Thai partners are family members)

This is my first company in my life and to keep costs at a minimum I am doing basically everything by my self. Except for Accounting/Book keeping and handling the renew department etc..

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to avoid tax payments. They are very low anyway compared to Europe. But this is not my point.

What bothers me is that as a Director of a "Thai Co., Ltd." I can't get a decent B-Visa to legally stay in this country and do my Job. They want I rent a office, place the 4 Thai stuff member behind a desk, all in the same uniform (me too) and take pictures. What the hell is wrong with this people? I told them I won't do it due to safe my monthly costs. I can do everything by myself and working from my home is totally fine for me. When I have to travel I do travel.

So the best way for me is to go back to my home country and apply for the B-Visa which I did before many times. I get it in 20min. Very easy.

The only advantage is (I think) to get the B-Visa issued within Thailand is that you don't need to leave the country every 90 days. But since I do travel at least once a month it makes no difference for me where my B-Visa is issued.

I am just saying it is totally ridiculous that not even with the WP comes together a decent Visa. This (again) has to be taken care of separately (and of course) in the most difficult way this bureaucracy can think of.

This country has some issues. (Unfortunately)

Just my 2 cents.

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20 min. ? Really? well rules been changed.

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Well, we will see about that.

You may find that you will not get a multiple entry non-b in your home country as easy as you have in the past.

Why you think that?

Oh Boy, Thailand knows how to scare away the Tourists.

Why the job is not paid? I don't get it.

Serisouly?

I don't understand why there is no Firefox Browser for Mobile devices?

....was carrying 4.22 grams of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice)....enough, in the eyes of the law, to qualify her as a drug dealer.

Just how she escaped is a mystery – police are silent on that point.

Yeaaaa right! Such a BIG TIME DRUGDEALER disapered like a mystery.

The Thai Police is so full of shit.