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  1. more likely an IT solution - TIN number blocked until return receive that they would need to manually overide. As a bonus i would expect that the online 90 day reporting will in future allow you to view all expats bank and passport details.
  2. While most of the problems with this will probably shake out as the new rules are defined, the thing most concerning me at the moment is this bit in the op: “ Iam not sure if it should be under immigration and visa but my experience tells me that immigration will ask for tax documents in the future.” Though I can’t see the point of them asking for tax docs (that would be an issue for RD) it would make sense for them to require a TIN to be declared as proof you are registered for tax here if you have stayed more that 180 days in a tax year. From April 2025 they will obviously be able to see this on immigration system and a fairly simple link or check with RD would identify if a tax return had been received giving the option of immigration either insisting one is done or an explanation of why one is not required - simplification would suggest they just hand this off to RD. Essentially this would mean everyone on one year extensions would need to do a tax return.
  3. Maybe so but the 10 hospitals they have in Thailand gives a touch more confidence in any health insurance business they are involved with as opposed to a frenchman and an Indian running a small business in the UK, neither of who live there or in Thailand.
  4. No details given yet so unknown. The principal idea of a DTA is to stop people paying tax twice on the same income so worst case scenario could be pay tax in Thailand but can use overseas tax return to reclaim any tax already paid so no guarantee that having a passport from a country with a DTA will give you any protection. Indeed there are a number of us here that relied on the difference between tax policies to avoid some taxes so potentially those gaps could be closed. best bet is wait for further clarification or the whole idea to be scrapped as too controversial as it will certainly be watered down and loopholes/get rounds appear as it gets defined.
  5. The officers that stepped down included Navin Vanasin who, as part of the Vanasin family, own Thonrburi Healthcare Group with a number of private hospitals in Thailand. She also is a director there and sits on their Executive Committee. It was her involvement that gave me some confidence in WRLife with the suggestion that they had the access to extensive medical facilities throughout Thailand. Without that link it gives bad vibes of a business that might suddenly vanish should someone deem the cash on hand enough to walk away with or claims exceed premiums at some point and there is nothing underwriting them. https://www.thg.co.th/en/management/management-team/25/ms-nalin-vanasin
  6. I have cover with WRLife that i took out several months ago. Even though it had an ‘unusual’ set up for an insurance company it did appear to have strong connections to Thailand with partners linked with a major Thailand healthcare/hospital group. I notice from their company filings in the UK that all the Thai partners resigned a couple of months ago which rings alarm bells for me. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC401682/officers
  7. That ‘foreign tour guide in Thailand’ in the photo appears to be stood outside the Louvre in Paris.
  8. Going to take me ages to send out my christmas cards next year with having to draw all those QR codes.
  9. I had new passport between 2nd and booster jab. Asked when i was getting booster and they updated my record to new passport number - morphrom app showed my new passport number the following day. Haven’t got intl/yellow cert so not sure how that works.
  10. With the biggest item being cars how many of these are in reality decisions to be made by Thai companies?
  11. Getting the same with both Sky News App and youtube live channel.
  12. Could be a translation issue. I cycle on that road regularly and you do need to be careful. it is a oldish dual carriageway with a fair few speeding trucks on it. The problem is that to get across from the pattaya side to Ban Chang/Green Valley side you need to go up/down to a u-turn and then get across to the middle - not unusual for bikes/motorbikes to go a against the traffic a bit to get to the nearest u-turn however there is a fairly wide bike lane (not marked as a cycle track) on both sides.
  13. Sure we will hear more about what happenned here but bit confused about where this happenned as the story says it was by the testing station which i thought was at the front of treetown but the pic looks to be outside the Beach Club which is further in.
  14. I don’t doubt the announced figures are way below the actual number of cases. My point was that the declared number is the one the governor has to be seen to act on and will be judged on by those higher up the bureaucratic tree. As with many things in the Land of Masks, appearances are everything.
  15. First one was for Chonburi as a whole. The second one released last night is specific for Pattaya/Nongprue/Banglamung and due to the rise in positive cases over last 24hrs. Banglamung is the third one down on the right.
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