CaptainSplod

Hi

Just interested to know if I can ONLY pay any Personal Income Tax at the Tax Office - or are there other ways of paying any tax in - for example at a bank, post office or any other place - and if so, how?

How do businesses (small or large) manage this - do they have to send  a guy out with a bag of cash every so often to the Tax Office? Somehow, I doubt it.....

I'm asking because my Tax Office is like 2 light years away from where I live and it'd take a whole day just to be able to pay in some baht.

Thanks for any advice

Splod

Sorry if this has been asked before - I haven't been able to find any relevant info....

I'm on a retirement visa (and have been for several years). There's an opportunity for a job as a teacher going - and I'm wondering about the present rules for changing from a Non-Immigrant Type O retirement visa - to a visa type allowing for a Work Permit. I'm aware that a retirement visa doesn't allow for a WP.


1. Do I need to leave the country and apply for another visa type (presumably "Type B" - or can I do this directly at Immigration?

2. Supposing I get a WP - then at some time or other the work will end. Can I go back to a retirement visa just by going to Immigration - or will I have to leave the country?


I'm certainly not sure if this is enough info for anyone to answer my questions,, so if not, then fire away!!

Thanks for any helpful info  

Splod

Yes - went for the usual 90 day report at CM Immigration - and no probs at all. An amazing amount of people, there - although that's a pretty normal thing, these days...

Only thing unsusual was that after handing over the usual form and photocopies, some of my passport info was then apparently registered onto their computer system. A small printer then produced a barcode slip which was stuck onto the last page of my passport. I gather it's another new thing that they're starting on.

I suppose it's for future control of - well, whatever - but I was wondering if anybody actually KNOWS what this is all about? Just curious - that's all.

Thanks

I just received a question from a family member about Don Muang Airport. As most know, the place was flooded for a relatively long time and there have been countless photos of swamped buildings, runways, planes and everything.

Seeing as the floods, I guess, have completely receded from the airport grounds - I wonder what is happening with all the waterlogged planes, runway electronics and whatever else was ruined.  Anybody know?

The last I read (which was well before the waters were gone again) was that the Military guys reckoned that to get the airport functional again was going to cost an astronomical amount of baht - and there were plenty of discussions as to whether it was worth repairing some things and maybe better to buy new. Maybe the discussions aren't yet finalised....but it seems that any real news about DM has quietly disappeared into the background.

However, I may certainly have missed out on some news along the way...


Still, I'm at the same time left wondering how it is that regular updates of the airport status don't seem to exist - or am I looking in the wrong places?

What work (if any) is scheduled to be done - and how are the once-wet metal "birds" getting along ?

Is the airport scheduled to re-open at some time - if so, when?

Hi!

Weird things happening - I use Google.com a lot and have done for many years. Until a couple of days ago, that is - all I now get is "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." and can never get through to Google.com.

I can use Google.co.th or even Google UK without any problem - but Google.com remains unavailable - which is rather annoying. I've tried re-installing FireFox and running Virus scans - even tried running different rootkit scans, but nothing shows. The "problem" even seems to extend to Google Earth and various other "Google" sites - none of which I use at all, fortunately.

I even installed Opera - same same - Google.com not accessible. IE gives "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage", which I guess is much the same error text as for Opera & FF.

I'm left with the feeling that either I have a well-hidden Trojan/Virus - or (perhaps more likely) some setting that I don't know about, has been changed.

I use Windows XP and FF - and have TOT.

Any good ideas as to how to get Google.com back and working again?

Thanks for your time and patience