I have been teaching for a few weeks and already someone asked me to tutor their child. My landlord told me that another farang tried to do that and got fined by the education board. I don't know that person's circumstances, but can anyone tell me how I might tutor legally? My wife is Thai, so perhaps we could start a business in her name and I could be an employee.
it will be almost impossible to tutor legally, unless if it is through your place of work, and you are using their building. To set up a business would be a huge expense if you were thinking about just a few hours tutoring... I am not sure the exact figures, but it used to be 4 Thai employees for every work permit. So, for you to legally tutor in a company you and your wife set up, your company would first have to pay tax for so many Thai employees.Originally Posted by Cal Roy
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I can't see someone being fined by the education board. If you are working illegally, surely it would be immigration who would be on your ass?
Yes, thank you. I see that post and definitely don't want to get that deep. I have heard talk about tutoring at the school, too, so I will pursue that avenue, instead. Again, thank you very much.
I have recently started teaching Saturdays at the school, for a 50-50 cut with the principle. Her job is to market it (though she doesn't do a great job of it) and she charges 10'000 bht and a few satang for 24 hour courses. It works out as just 440 bht an hour, half going to me. Sound shit, and at the moment it is, but at the moment there are only 3 students. If she does her job well, and we get 10 or more in a class, it will be well worth it.
In Surat I was tutoring a judge's grandchildren. I never got into any trouble. I wonder why. Must be dumb luck.
You have to be a real bungler to have Thai people report you to the government.
This doesn't ring true at all. You wouldn't be fined by the 'education board' (if there were such a thing), you would be fined by a court of law.
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Maybe your landlord is yanking your chain. Your landlord doesn't want you making money by providing a nice service for the kids in the building - go ahead and do it.
So... is it fairly illegal but also fairly usual for people to do extra tutoring on the side?
^just about sums it up. I have heard stories of folks being busted, but you really have to be pissing off the wrong person a lot for that to happen. I have taught all sort of folks on the side, from public prosecutors to policemen. You just have to be careful and not tread on any toes.
It has been done, but the paperwork might be prohibitive.
Last edited by WilliamBlake; 24th July 2012 at 19:12.
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My advice is to be VERY VERY careful about advertising your English tutoring. Don't put up any fliers and don't put any ads on the internet, no matter how obscure the website. There are some scumbag people out there (both Thai and falang) who spy for the local police, and they can set you up to be extorted out of a huge amount of money, which is done primarily through scare tactics. I can't go into any more details, but I speak from experience (and I wasn't pissing anyone off either). Not a good experience at all.
Last edited by jds1986; 24th July 2012 at 19:45.
My general feeling on these topics is that the better and more qualified service you are potentially offering to Thai kids, the more likely it is somebody is going to get in your business and F it up, or even worse. It just isn't worth doing anything well here, and it sure does show.
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Why can't you go into details?
Did you walk about dropping that into everyday conversations? did you need to? sounds pretty pathetic
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