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by lomuamart
Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Renewing a UK passport in Thailand
Replies: 105
Views: 8152

Re: Renewing a UK passport in Thailand

As of January this year, they hadn't.

I had an appointment at Trendy about the 17th to renew mine but was called back to the UK urgently and did the renewal there.
by lomuamart
Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:32 pm
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Thai passport renewal ... 10 years?
Replies: 71
Views: 5661

Re: Thai passport renewal ... 10 years?

Actually, DB yes the UK can be really efficient.

I know it's not the right thread, so very briefly, they turned my renewal around in a day (although I didn't collect it for four). All online now.

Bear in mind that I did mine in January and I was 30 minutes away from a passport office.
by lomuamart
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Thai law prohibits foreigners from driving passengers.
Replies: 21
Views: 1726

Re: Thai law prohibits foreigners from driving passengers.

If I drive to a golf course for a competition and someone needs a lift back into town, am I going to worry about taking them? No. As D-M says, we'll be back to the fear mongering days of not being able to breathe in your own home in case they decide you're working in some way. This is a quarter of a...
by lomuamart
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Thai law prohibits foreigners from driving passengers.
Replies: 21
Views: 1726

Re: Thai law prohibits foreigners from driving passengers.

Na.

Operating a taxi service and taking money is obviously a no go. As is being a tour guide. Always has been and probably always will be.

Driving your friends around? No, again.

I've heard this old chestnut countless times over the years here. Don't let it bother you.
by lomuamart
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: On The Road
Topic: Photo Trip Report: Camping The North
Replies: 61
Views: 6529

Re: Photo Trip Report: Camping The North

Luxury!!
by lomuamart
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Feeding Time
Topic: Having a sunday roast at Gordon Ramsay in Bangkok.
Replies: 22
Views: 1946

Re: Having a sunday roast at Gordon Ramsay in Bangkok.

In England, I cooked a mean roast dinner! Not here though, its not worth it. If yours was a mean roast dinner, I agree it's a lot of hassle, but it has to be worth it. Nobody can beat my family's home cooked roast for me, and it sounds as if your home coast roast was special for you. We don't do it...
by lomuamart
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: On The Road
Topic: Photo Trip Report: Camping The North
Replies: 61
Views: 6529

Re: Photo Trip Report: Camping The North

I've meant to ask this before but how much equipment do you take? Do you have the tables, chairs, parasols etc or are they all at the camp sites? Cooking equipment blah blah?

Could be a lot of stuff.
by lomuamart
Thu Dec 14, 2023 11:40 am
Forum: Hua Hin & Thailand Golf
Topic: Re: Hua Hin Driving Ranges
Replies: 17
Views: 4734

Re: Re: Hua Hin Driving Ranges

Those three independent ones shut well before covid.

Tavimook was the last to go and that was about 6 years ago.

Time flies.
by lomuamart
Thu Dec 14, 2023 10:02 am
Forum: Hua Hin & Thailand Golf
Topic: Re: Hua Hin Driving Ranges
Replies: 17
Views: 4734

Re: Re: Hua Hin Driving Ranges

All attached to the courses.
by lomuamart
Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:04 pm
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income
Replies: 178
Views: 59164

Re: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income

Hold on. If you're suggesting I'm scaremongering, you're wrong. I'd just like clarification of procedure. Hey, who wouldn't? I used to answer pretty much all the visa stuff on here and always tried to be literal. But that has nothing to do with the point in question - unless maybe we don't get our e...
by lomuamart
Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income
Replies: 178
Views: 59164

Re: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income

Panic is a big word.

I'd just like clarification of which way it'll go. You know, do I pay first or account for it later? If I owe something.

Pretty simple stuff really.
by lomuamart
Sun Dec 10, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income
Replies: 178
Views: 59164

Re: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income

Seems to me that Thailand is just following the trend of global taxation. If you live in the UK for more than 183 days (I think that's it) then you will be liable for UK tax on all your earnings worldwide. Unless you can show that you've paid tax somewhere else. So, are the monies transferred into T...
by lomuamart
Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:27 am
Forum: Legal, Visa, Finances & Employment
Topic: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income
Replies: 178
Views: 59164

Re: Tax residency in Thailand and taxing overseas income

Seems as clear as mud to me but going by what the "experts" say in the linked BP article, it appears to me that they're going after Thais who have a foreign income. If the new rules only apply to the three income areas mentioned, I don't see that those of us living here on annual extension...
by lomuamart
Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:41 am
Forum: Flights, Airlines & Airports
Topic: Flights to/from Thailand status, news, and updates
Replies: 343
Views: 194836

Re: Flights to/from Thailand status, news, and updates

Just booked flights to Stansted, UK return with Emirates leaving early October for three weeks. 34,900 THB pp which I was fairly happy with.
by lomuamart
Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:43 am
Forum: News
Topic: Thailand tourism situation
Replies: 1860
Views: 191441

Re: Thailand tourism situation

As an aside, I caught the 09.30 airport bus back from Swampy on Monday just gone. When I reserved my seat on the Friday before, I was the only booking. Including me, there were 9 of us on the bus. I was away a week and in that time, Hua Hin seems to have emptied. We were up and down to BKK via the ...