New Visa Regulation for Tourists ACR-I-Card

Hi Folks, as you are on the subject of taxes, can anyone tell me what are there experiences of import tax ?
We will be importing about half a container of household goods mostly bought in Thailand and out of the 12month guarantee.

I have had this problem once before in Sri Lanka it too me 8hrs with the help of a agent to get down to a reasonable figure.
We will be coming over in July, so it would be good to get a feedback from you about PH, by the way we are moving to Dumaguete and i will be visiting next week to find a house to rent.
Cheers Di

Maybe someone can confirm this, I don't know for sure.

I was told when you leave the country immigration "keeps" your car and on your return you have to get a new one at your expense "unless" you have your original receipt then its free.

also I've seen 3 of these cards and the picture was taken off their passport and you cant tell who's picture it is...one blurred mess

[Cdnicholson]

Hello,

SI Chippy or Rhoddy still on this site?

If so, can either of you please contact me. I am a serious and soon will be making my way to Phili to continue my second half of my life.

I am 40 and about to come into about $50,000 dollars and I want to move to Phili and restart my life. I have an MBA and thought I could start a business or teach in the phili to sub my income to continue living.

Please contact me off site, because I want to talk personal and serious about my methods and needs that I need to get started to make this work.

Thanks ahead,
Chuck
chuckdnicholson At G mail DOT com

[Cdnicholson]

Hello,

I will be moving to Phili in the near future.
If I want to leave the majority of my money in the USA to draw better interest and later make withdrawals from the philil; How can I receive my money quickly and cheaply?

Do i need someone on this side mailing me money somehow?
Is there ATM's or American Banks in Phili to make ATM withdrawals?

ETC..... an info on this would be great.

I am trying to get my ducks in a role.

Thanks ahead,
Chuck

[Rhoody]

Chuck, you can withdraw with C-Cards at most ATM but be aware of the fees and the daily limit (around 20,000 Peso)

Don't know about the US but BDO (former Equitable bank) has branches in Europe where you can make wired transfers from your normal account to BDO and than transfer it to your BDO in the Philippines.

While 50K is a handful of money it can be gone pretty fast. The PI are not that cheap for living. Many people do the mistake to judge from a few weeks holiday.

With business are a lot of different considerations to make. A foreigner can't own business here in general. a corporation can but 60% need to be Filipino owned and you need a initial investment of 50K.

Teaching jobs are not really that well paid to make a proper living out of it. Of course it also depends on the area you are planning to go but be VERY cautious. In my 9 years here I saw many people coming with big plans and leaving (if they still have the money for a ticket) with nothing.

cheers

Rhoody

[shgetovrit]

I will be arriving in Aug/Sep 2012 for extended stay on tourist Visa to Boracay. Any updated advance information on extending the Visa & associated fees would be appreciated. Rick

[jas99]

In this forum, I just found out the visa situation in Philippines. I don't really know to deal with those cock suckers.. I hate to say it, I'm a citizen. It made me sick. Even to their own people it's not easy to leave the country plus they will charge now for ur so called Departure Tax which is almost the fee of ur ticket. They are so freakin' concern of they're people to leave the country to find a job to support their family which they couldn't provide over there.. I don't know if they have any idea how they're people's daily basis in life or how survive. The only thing they is how to get money from foreigner & the most disgusting is even to their own people.
I thought Thailand is the worst visa situation. It's a very corrupt but at least u have so many options. Because its a corrupt they will give u so many options & let it say u want a 1 yr Visa by going to a Language school but u can't obtain 1 yr in ur passport because u need to report every 90 days to the immigration & to pay 1,900 Bhat. It's sucks but that's how u get around here.
Back in the topic. As what I've read in this furom, it's not easy to apply plus it's not cheap!!
Some Filipino People are great to u when they u have money..
So good luck t all of u guys..

Jas