Buying Property in Thailand

Owning Property and Securing Real Estate Investments in Thailand Methods As developers, and developments vary, so typically the legal structures they use to sell real estate to foreigners also varies. This can lead to confusion between what is the specific law in Thailand relating to real esate and how ‘practice and implementation’ can be different. … Read more

HMRC Penalties for late payment of HMRC, NIC and CIS

Penalties for late payment of PAYE and NIC, May 2010. From May 2010 HMRC are implementing new penalties for late payment of periodic PAYE /NIC from businesses. This will include any tax, national insurance contributions, construction industry deductions and student loan deductions which may be due in the tax year 2010-2011 onwards. It means that … Read more

Is Living Debt-Free An Unreachable Goal?

Many Westerners believe that living debt free is an unrealistic and unreachable goal these days. They live above their means and abuse credit like there is no tomorrow. Some think that it is OK since “everyone else is doing it”. Others underestimate the interest rates and don’t realize how much more they will owe in … Read more