Who would prefer having to pay to a Thai Immigration bank account about 200 Baht at the nearest bank or 7/11 every 90 days instead of having to report and fill in the relevant forms?

 

A confirmation email with the bank deposit details and your current address should be an adequate TM30 replacement.

 

Having a copy of the email or payment details should be adequate proof if required by any official.

If a top immigration officer proposed this idea we should all congratulate his brilliant thinking 

 

Takes me less than 5 mins in immigration...that includes waiting my turn...

 

It is the idea of being carefully watched that galls my axx...

Who would prefer having to pay to a Thai Immigration bank account about 200 Baht at the nearest bank or 7/11 every 90 days instead of having to report and fill in the relevant forms?

 

A confirmation email with the bank deposit details and your current address should be an adequate TM30 replacement.

 

Having a copy of the email or payment details should be adequate proof if required by any official.

If a top immigration officer proposed this idea we should all congratulate his brilliant thinking 

 

Your assuming Thai immigration wants to forgo its new revenue stream from farangs and Thai landlords. That goose is only starting to nest...

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On 8/16/2019 at 2:24 PM, John_Betong said:

Having a copy of the email or payment details should be adequate proof if required by any official.

You're overlooking how many separate benefactors tend to become involved in protection rackets. Just ask anyone who runs a business here how this works. 

15 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

You're overlooking how many separate benefactors tend to become involved in protection rackets. Just ask anyone who runs a business here how this works. 

I run a business and have done for many many years and have never seen a policeman.  So please tell me what you know, and base it on evidence and not bar stool heresay.   "Ask anyone who runs a business"......well here I am and I have no idea what you are talking about.

Sketchy guys running a bar, yes, you'll be expected to play the game.  I don't run a bar.   I also know several other foreign professional business owners - no protection rackets, no problems, never.  You are perpetuating  a bar stool myth.

5 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Sketchy guys running a bar, yes, you'll be expected to play the game. 

Fair enough, I withdraw the sweeping generalisation about business operators, and when I posted I very nearly used the phrase "anyone running a bar business". But please take into account the context of the suggestion I was replying to - it's quite clear that there's more than a few grubby mitts in the pot benefitting from the collateral damage of immigration enforcement.