"Who else but an idiot would want to?"
- Sam Wanamaker (Fillipenko), 'Taras Bulba'
"Who else but an idiot would want to?"
Likewise, when I bought my Mitsubishi Triton from the dealer here in Pattaya, they didn't have one here. The one they located equipped and painted as I wanted was in Rayong. We went there with the salesperson to pick it up. When the plates arrived some 8 weeks later, they were from Rayong Province. We did look into changing it to Chonburi, but it was a rather involved process that also included additional fees. Since we could pay the road tax at the Banglamung DLT office, we decided not to bother with changing it.
Thank you 2lz2p. That is a very good point that I did not think to mention. No matter what provincial plates are on your vehicle, you can pay the road tax locally. As anyone who drives a car in Thailand knows, the annual road tax sticker must be prominently displayed on the windshield.
Another example of using an agency for what ought to be a painless task?
That is another good point. Now that you mention it, I don't see any reason why the road tax can't be paid online and a receipt gets placed on the windshield, similar to how the 90-day address report can be done. The only complication I can see about it is vehicles have to undergo annual inspection once they are 7 years old. But how hard can it be to require the inspection report to be uploaded along with whatever else?
1 Tax is run by the state, unlike some of the other transactions you mention. The Thai private sector seems superior to the state in most respects.Gaybutton wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:29 pm Nearly everything else can be paid online in Thailand these days - water bill, electric bill, online purchases, food orders, telephone top-up, etc. What would be so difficult about paying the road tax that way?
There certainly is a good number of things that ought to be upgraded to the 21st century. Paying the road tax online would one of those things - and there are plenty more.
The fact that they don't do these things that way - a good candidate for addition to my "I Don't Get It" list . .
It looks about the same as usual to me - and demonstrates why I won't drive on Pattaya Tai unless I must.