Shipping And Tax From America.

[K4thomas]

Hello all,

My name is Thomas and I just moved to Thailand about 1 week ago. Moved here with my girlfriend from Hawaii, and know have a condo in Chiang Mai, I have just a few questions that I hope can be answered without to much effort.

I plan to focus on photography while my girlfriend is going to teach English. I have most of my equipment here, but some bigger things were left at home. Mainly my iMac, I really want to ship it over but my uncle who lived here a few years ago said it will be heavily taxed. Is this true? I need to research it a bit more, but wondered if anyone knew off the bat if it would be worth it or not to ship it here.

Thanks in advance everyone.

[BB1955]

Depending on what type of visa you came over on will depend if you are taxed or not . If you are relocating here with the proper visa you are allowed one shipment of personal items within the first 6 months of your stay . Now will they consider your items personal in nature thats another question , If they dont yes you ll get taxed and it wont be fun .... I shipped 5 boxes with all sorts of things and did not have any tax to pay . But I sent all this while I was still in the USA . My guess is you would be better off getting what you need here ....