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The 10,000 baht duty-free limit on new personal items purchased overseas by incoming air passengers is now being strictly policed, the Customs Department announced on Tuesday.

The warning was carried on new signs posted at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport.

The Suvarnabhumi Airport Passenger Control Customs Bureau will calculate the value of all personal items - souvenirs, gifts or brandname goods - purchased overseas. If the combined value of those product exceed 10,000 baht, passengers and airline crew will have to pay import duty.

Signs announcing enforcement of the limit were placed at the airport, explaining that "personal goods" includes new clothes, shoes, socks and bags in non-commercial form. If goods being brought into Thailand exceed the limit, they must be declared to customs officials and the duty paid before their baggage go through the X-ray machine.

Any undeclared items will be seized and the owners may have to pay up to four times of the value including plus the duty. The department said food, food supplements and cosmetic will not get the duty waiver.

Travellers are limited to 200 duty free cigarettes and and one litre of duty free liquor or wine. Gifts prepared to give to other people, donated items, collectable items, second-hand goods, empty watch and brandname bag boxes are not considered as personal items. Individuals bringing in these products have to inform customs officials before the baggage X-ray.

Expensive new watches or bags worth more than 10,000 baht will be liable to duty, even if being worn. Somchai Asawadtriratanakul, the bureau’s chief of investigation and suppression division, said the regulation was an existing one, but enforcement will be stricter. The bureau found many people brought in new products for resale in Thailand without paying import duty.

Action had to be taken to prevent this. Initially, signs were posted at arrival and departure areas. If duty-payable goods are found undeclared in possession of a passenger who refuses to allow the goods to be seized, the case will go to court, he said If duty-payable goods are found undeclared in possession of a passenger who refuses to allow the goods to be seized, the case will go to court, he said.

If the passenger loses the case, the smuggled goods would be siezed and they would be liable to a fine of four times the assessed value, including the import duty, and/or a prison term of up to ten years.

Who brings shit to thailand?

Obviously lots of people! Next will be tightening up of importing stuff through the posts office? Ebay and the like?

Originally Posted by bobo746

Who brings shit to thailand?

Utter numpties

Always cracked me up when they would pounce from behind a corner at Suvanapoompoom and inquire if you had more than a carton of smokes.

Answer:

"Why would I bring smokes here when they're 10 x cheaper here?"

Not one of them fvckers got it

Originally Posted by taxexile

If goods being brought into Thailand exceed the limit, they must be declared to customs officials and the duty paid before their baggage go through the X-ray machine.

This always confuses me. I brought an Iron over from HK from my apartment there. Clearly I had had it for ages, and bringing it to my house here. I was stopped (god knows why) and they popped the bag open, saw the iron, and told me I had to pay tax. "What is the value" they asked? Well, 3 yr old Rowenta iron, about 25 bucks HKD, so 100 baht I said. They looked at me as if I was lying but then issued me a bill for a red one, and off I went.

So with a 10k limit, my suitcase costs more than that. Pair of ted baker shoes that I buy once a year over in HK, more than 10k. Are they going to look at them and know if the labels are off, and they are just chucked in my bag? Very confusing.

TIT same as the new general its all bullshit

Very confusing.

thats the whole point. everything is open to interpretation, the interpretation of the thieving public servant in the uniform.

Originally Posted by taxexile

everything is open to interpretation, the interpretation of the thieving public servant in the uniform

Yup. One of the most common fines in the country - (100's of 1000's issued a year) is bikes not using the lefthand lane. This is no more than a pointless and dangerous tax collection exercise.

There is no fixed fine for this - no written law - no fixed amount.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Obviously lots of people! Next will be tightening up of importing stuff through the posts office? Ebay and the like?

I believe this might true, as they've always been cautious towards personal items being shipped/delivered - it's all about the revenue that can be collected through fees, taxes, duty, etc.

Have to wonder if this newly imposed regulation would apply to businesses [of every sort] they rely on regular overseas shipments.....or restricted to individuals??

There is a shop on one of the ring roads in Chiang Mai which sells luxury goods. I was told that airlines employees and regular travelers buy suitcases full of perfumes, brand name purses, jewelry, etc. overseas, then bring them in to Thailand without paying duty. They then sell the items to that shop which sells them to the public. All the luxury items for sale are less expensive than one would buy retail since no luxury tax is paid and no flashy retail shop exists. It is not a small-time operation. It is huge.

My guess is they are after the people bringing goods to those kinds of illegal shops.

Originally Posted by baldrick

it was all out of its packing

There's the rub.

Smuggling gold is illegal, but there's nothing illegal about a load of gold chains, a gold belt and a few gold teeth.

''Who brings shit to thailand?''

a few Red's wines for the Bro in Law? mind You I've never been spoke to in 12 years! coming here, on a one way Ticket too.

not like going back to Oz and asked 'Why You got 2 phones?' and other stupid piss me off please explain questions, it fails me.

Originally Posted by bobo746

Who brings shit to thailand?

Well...When I decided to MOVE HERE...I brought A LOT OF "SHIT TO THAILAND"...! DORK...!

welcome to Thailand ( I think )

In 25 years of visiting Thailand I've never seen a single customs official doing anything other than lounging around chatting with his mates.

Oh, I tell a lie.

These days it's more likely to be 'lounging around, playing with his phone'.

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

This is no more than a pointless and dangerous tax collection exercise.

If it collects money then it isn't pointless.

Anything brought in from overseas now will be subject to the correct import duties...well correct according to whoever is making the rules up now. You should see the silly stuff we are having to deal with.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Next will be tightening up of importing stuff through the posts office? Ebay and the like?

It's already happening. I've bought stuff on ebay and if the seller puts a value of over Bht1,000 on the pack all I'll get is a wee note from customs telling me to come and pick it up and pay the tax.

It's happened half a dozen times now so that's the ends of my ebay experience.

Originally Posted by mingmong

''Who brings shit to thailand?''

a few Red's wines for the Bro in Law? mind You I've never been spoke to in 12 years! coming here, on a one way Ticket too.

not like going back to Oz and asked 'Why You got 2 phones?' and other stupid piss me off please explain questions, it fails me.

Never been stopped by Thai customs, stations weren't even manned last time I came in.

Oz customs are variable.
Darwin are a bunch of power tripping fucking Nazis, always had trouble with them.
Came over on quick work trip and coming back were made to wait until last then given the third degree for an hour as they went through every single thing we had.
Why are you bringing back talcum powder
Why do you have thai checkbooks, told them the checks were for our company, some dick who thought he could read thai said they were for a shirt factory and kept arguing the point until I pointed out that he was reading the bank branch address and questioned whether he was legally certified as a translator.
Why does your Missus have children's photos on her phone
On and on until I told them to charge me and let me call my lawyer or fuck off.

Coming into Melbourne from London and it's bag through the scanner and how was your trip, all with a smile..

Problems will arise when returning expats bring their IPad, iPod, camera, Rolex watch, you name it, and are stopped by customs demanding that proof of purchase be shown. One naturally will claim said items are over a year old etc, but without evidence .....?

It does make me wonder what will happen when we are back this summer.

Ipad mini - cracked bottom corner - that will be 1000B please sir
Acer computer with pubes sticking out of the keyboard and shit all over it - 1000B please sir
Asus tablet with broken surround - 1000B please sir
Bicycle (actually brand new but I will rub it in mud first) god knows how much

Should be an interesting experience. I suppose it means the ten bottles of

Usual BS !

Quote:
Originally Posted by bobo746
Who brings shit to thailand?
Well...When I decided to MOVE HERE...I brought A LOT OF "SHIT TO THAILAND"...! DORK...!

Did you bring a wife ?