Question 1

What is required before putting the Thung Kula hom mali mark on a sack?

Accepted Answer

A geographical indication mark is not a trade mark that anyone may apply. A user must apply for authorisation as a producer or trader inside the declared area, showing that the plots sit within the boundary, that the specified variety is grown, and that an internal quality control system follows the manual issued by the Department of Intellectual Property. The papers required are the farmer or company registration, plot maps, seed-source evidence, and historical purchase records. Once granted, periodic surveillance inspections continue. Using the mark without registration is detected immediately by any overseas buyer running a traceability check, and orders are usually cancelled in full. We assemble the file and carry the registration through for you.

Question 2

Does a small community rice mill need a factory licence?

Accepted Answer

This turns on the aggregate horsepower installed and the number of workers. A small huller used by a household or a small group usually sits below the factory licensing threshold, but once a drying unit or a grader is added the combined horsepower often crosses it without the owner noticing. In that case a notification or a licence in the relevant class is required, alongside compliance on noise, husk dust, and wastewater — neighbour complaints being the single most common trigger for inspection. The safe approach is to total the horsepower at the design stage and file everything before installation. We check the machinery specification and lodge the application for you.

Question 3

A farmer group selling its own rice — community enterprise or a company?

Accepted Answer

A community enterprise is simple and cheap to register and carries an income tax exemption up to the prescribed ceiling, which suits a group selling domestically that does not yet need to issue tax invoices. A limited company becomes necessary once the group exports directly, opens letters of credit, or takes in outside investors, because foreign counterparties want a legal entity whose accounts can be examined. The common misstep is a fast-growing group still receiving overseas buyer transfers in the community enterprise name, leaving the bank unable to trace the source. We usually advise starting as a community enterprise and incorporating a parallel company once export volume becomes regular. We structure and register either form.

Question 4

Is a farmer's income from selling paddy subject to income tax?

Accepted Answer

Selling produce you grew yourself falls into a category the law allows to be deducted at a high standard rate, so a mid-sized household is often left with little or no taxable base. The filing obligation nonetheless remains once annual income reaches the threshold. Trouble starts when a farmer begins buying paddy from neighbours for resale: that portion becomes trading, must be accounted for separately, and may enter the VAT system once turnover reaches the registration level. State subsidy and income-guarantee payments have their own recording treatment. We separate the streams at the start of the year and handle the filings across the tax year.

Question 5

A child sends money monthly from Korea to a parent's account — is it taxable?

Accepted Answer

Money a child sends to support a parent is exempt up to the annual ceiling set by law; only the excess enters the computation. The more frequent practical issue is the bank asking for source-of-funds documentation when cumulative transfers are large or the frequency looks unusual. What should be kept is proof of the family relationship, a copy of the overseas employment contract or payslips, and transfer slips naming the sender clearly. If the recipient later buys land, the same bundle is used again at the transfer of title. We assemble and certify the translations so the file is ready to submit.

Question 6

Does an agricultural cooperative close accounts and audit like a company?

Accepted Answer

A cooperative operates under the cooperative legislation and is examined by an auditor appointed or accredited by the Cooperative Auditing Department, not by an ordinary certified public accountant as a limited company would be. Its financial year frequently does not follow the calendar year because it tracks the production season. The two items most often queried are long-overdue member loan receivables carried without an allowance, and paddy inventory valued out of line with the market price at closing date — together they make the cooperative's equity look stronger than it is. We set up the daily recording routine, establish the allowance policy, and prepare the full inspection file each cycle.

Question 7

Working in Korea under EPS — which certified Thai documents are needed?

Accepted Answer

The core set is the house registration copy, ID card, birth certificate in some cases, a medical certificate from a designated hospital, and a police character certificate. Documents used abroad must be translated into English or Korean, have the translation legalised at the Department of Consular Affairs, and then be endorsed by the embassy if the receiving authority asks for it. That order cannot be rearranged, and getting it wrong is why applicants end up travelling to Bangkok repeatedly. Applicants from Roi Et can send the papers to us to run end to end and receive them back by registered post without travelling at all.

Question 8

Living abroad and wanting a relative in Roi Et to manage farmland — how is the power of attorney done?

Accepted Answer

A power of attorney for use at the Land Office must state the deed number, parcel number, sub-district and district, and define the scope precisely — to lease, to survey, or to sell — because officials will not read it beyond what is written. When signed abroad it must be executed before a Thai embassy or consulate officer, or before a notary public in that country and then legalised through that country's chain, after which the translation is certified in Thailand. Total elapsed time is usually three to five weeks. We draft the instrument, check the wording, and liaise with the Land Office.

Question 9

Shipping rice to Singapore — which certificates travel with the container?

Accepted Answer

The set buyers and destination customs regularly require is a certificate of origin, a phytosanitary certificate from the Department of Agriculture, a fumigation certificate, the bill of lading, and a commercial invoice stating the rice grade agreed in the contract. Where ASEAN free trade preferences are claimed, the correct origin form must be used, or the buyer pays full duty and normally recovers it from the seller. The mistake new exporters make most often is an exporter name on the certificates that does not match the export entry, which strands the container at the port. We prepare the full set and cross-check consistency before the box leaves.

Question 10

Leasing paddy land year by year — what should the owner know?

Accepted Answer

Farmland leasing sits under dedicated legislation that protects tenants substantially: a minimum lease term, termination in prescribed form with advance notice, and a tenant right of prior notification if the owner intends to sell. Many owners sign a one-year agreement believing the tenant must leave the moment the year ends, which is not what the law provides, and any dispute must first pass the sub-district agricultural land rent committee before reaching court. What genuinely reduces risk is a written contract setting out rent, payment method, and hand-back conditions in full. We draft it and explain the binding effect to both sides before signature.

Question 11

Inherited paddy still in a grandparent's name — how do descendants divide it?

Accepted Answer

An estate administrator must be appointed by court order first, because the Land Office will not transfer directly to heirs once the registered owner has died. The filing needs the death certificate, house registration, proof of every heir's status, the title deed or Nor Sor 3, and a schedule of assets. In practice the obstacle is not the court but heirs living abroad or out of contact, which requires embassy-certified consent letters. Once the order issues, the family can hold the land in common or survey it into sub-plots — the latter constrained by minimum plot size and access rules. We handle both the estate case and the subdivision survey.

Question 12

Sor Por Kor land in the Thung Kula area — can it be sold or leased?

Accepted Answer

Land inside an agricultural land reform area confers a right to farm, not ownership, so no sale or transfer to an outside party is possible. It passes only to heirs who qualify as farmers under the criteria, and letting someone else work it for payment can lead to revocation of the right. What is common locally is a private sale agreement with the entitlement document handed to the buyer for safekeeping — this has no registry effect and the buyer cannot sue to compel a transfer. Anyone investing in the area should verify the document class before paying a deposit. We check parcel status and give a written opinion before you commit.

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