Setting up a company in Thailand - what's required

reciprocal agreements

By tingtong, Created on: 09/10/2008, Last updated on: 15/02/2015

» Not only do ex prime ministers live in exile but any wealthy Thai can buy what they like in Uk. I dont know about other countries but I suspect the same. Not only can a Thai buy a house to live in, but hotels and even football teams of national importance. A six month visa is the smallest...

• shakeyd commented : [quote="scyriacus":1lcxbeej][quote="shakeyd":1lcxbeej]...Lets take one of your comments and make you understand something clear. Farangs cannot enter Thailand without a visa FACT ... [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]dead wrong! most farangs arrive without any visa on 'visa exemption'.[/color:1lcxbeej] Thais can also buy land and property as long as the money is of legal means so please explain were the parity is here.... [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]there is no parity and that's what i say! farang land & thai land cannot be compared. for the same amount needed to build a villa in thailand you can hardly build a garage in farang country![/color:1lcxbeej] I don't care frankly if you want to go to the UK and steal our women because you are welcome to them as you will soon understand that Thai women are a dream to be married to compared to the UK women so good look with that one mate. [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]it was meant to be a bad joke, but your 'sense of humor' seems to be limited. so lets turn it around for you to understand: because there is no parity, many old farangs invade thailand to 'steal' the dreams of many thai men and 'spoil' them. and that is NOT a joke! but why are the vast majority of your fellow-countrymen still married to english women, if they are worth less? any splendid idea again?[/color:1lcxbeej] And just one more point, I don't demand nor do I expect anything from Thai people in terms of reciprical treatment as you failed to read I am very happy here and I would rather be here than back in the UK but if the Thai goverment would change slightly maybe the visa rules then that would make me even more happy to be here. [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]why should thailand change anything, if you are happy anyway? why should they make you even more happy? would you make life better for thais in the uk by lowering taxes for them? what is you 'reciprocal' really all about? do you want to have an even more prefered treatment? would you ever like to swap with any common thai? you really get under my skin![/color:1lcxbeej] I doubt this will happen but in life you never know and if any Thai wants to make a new life in the UK then great go for it and I wish them well with high taxes with every purchase, high tax on there hard earned income and high tax just for living in a home regardless whether or not you own it and that doeasn't include the rest of the things such as dull weather, unhappy people and a host more of other things. [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]here we believe you 100% first time. but where is your infamous parity?[/color:1lcxbeej] [/quote:1lcxbeej] my answers and remarks are in [color=#FF0000:1lcxbeej]red[/color:1lcxbeej][/quote:1lcxbeej] Look Scyriacus, I think you are correct when you say the cost of building a home in Thailand is not the same as the UK and I have no argument with that quote at all. But what you fail so badly to understand is that every country throughout the world has different prices for land and property.Let me give you an example, I have a 1 bedroom apartment in Paphos Cyprus which has cost me 63,000 Euros when built and in the Uk I have a 2 bedroom Flat that I lease out and this cost me £50,000 to buy.Now tell me am I to complain that the Cyprus apartment cost me more or am I to go with the market forces in each country.Now my comments regarding you going to the UK and stealing our women.If you understand the English humour then you will understand we are a bunch with a dry sense of humour and like you it was meant in jest so let sleeping dogs lie on that one other than to say I amnot old nor am I fat and it is up to each person in the world as to whom they fall in love with so that is the end of that. I am happy here and yes less runs to the border would make my life somewhat easier but as I said first time round, this isn't going to happen in my lifetime so I will just get on with it and live my life in as much peace as possible.I will still argue that Thais can and do buy land in the UK and also the visa rules are easier but if you wish to stick with your version then please do as you are very much alone here as I don't see anyone backing you up on your ideas. Anyway, no time to hold grudges as I have a beer to drink so have fun people you are a long time dead.

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