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As a part of our corporate social responsibility commitment DUENSING KIPPEN provides regular legal column contributions to numerous international, national and local hard and soft copy publications including: our regular legal column in The Phuket News newspaper, Mondaq, the Danish - Thai Trade News, Tropical Living magazine, Director magazine, Exotiq magazine, Samui - Phangan Real Estate magazine, The Pattaya Mail newspaper, Samui Express newspaper, Chiang Mai Mail newspaper and many others. We also make these publications available here below.
Thailand Eases Restrictions on Properties Used for Short-Term Rentals
We have previously explained HERE (and with a further follow-up HERE) that most villa or condominium unit owners who are renting out their property on a short-term basis (that is, for periods of less than 30 days) are most likely violating the Hotel Act (2004) if they do so without having received a hotel license. The potential punishment for such violation includes significant fines, or imprisonment, or both.
A Step Towards an End to Frustration and “Tea‐Money” in Thailand?
Historically, obtaining a desired license, registration, or other requisite government permission has often been frustrating and costly in Thailand. Inefficiencies, and the all too common “tea money”/unofficial “fees” charged by government offices to perform their administrative duties, stem from the broad discretion government offices are generally given to determine what an applicant must do or provide, to obtain a license, registration, or permission.
Are you the director of a Thai company? You should be aware of your significant legal liabilities
If you are a managing director of a private limited company in Thailand you may have decided to leave the task of dealing with your company’s legal, tax and accounting formalities to your firm’s in house lawyer and accountant or to outsource it to a law firm and an accounting office.
Must You Include “Company, Limited”, In Your Thai Business Sign?
If you started a business here in Thailand, you probably did so by setting up a Thai company limited. All Thai limited companies are required to have and to report to the authorities a registered address, pursuant to Section 1148 of the Civil and Commercial Code (the “CCC”). And, pursuant to Section 14 of The Offences Relating to Registered Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, Limited Companies, Associations and Foundations Act (1956) and as amended (the “Juristic Persons Offences Act”) if a Thai limited company does not comply with Section 1148 of the CCC, such company will be subject to a fine of up to Thai baht twenty thousand.
Business Signs (part II): is Thai language required in yours?
In our last column we had a look at the common legal misnomer regarding businesses organized under a Thai limited company that asserts: “You must have ‘company, limited’ on your business sign.” In this column, we examine a second very common legal misnomer regarding business signs in Thailand.