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BoI offers heaps of tax breaks to firms
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 24/02/2012
» Government measures to help flood-hit companies including a corporate income tax extension are now pending approval from Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong and will likely take effect soon, says Industry Minister M.R. Pongsvas Svasti.
The price of PromptPay
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 08/01/2017
» Manaschuen Kovapirat considers herself the average user when it comes to online banking transactions: on a monthly basis, she uses her bank's mobile application to transfer money to her mother and to donate money. She does online shopping and prefers to transfer money online for transactions less than 100,000 baht. On some occasions, when she's out with her friends and doesn't have enough cash, she pays them back via online banking.
Monopoly money under a tax
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 24/04/2016
» Poom Prasit had been smoking the local Krong Thip cigarettes for the past 13 years. On the day of the announcement of the latest tobacco tax hike in February, however, he immediately decided he would switch brands. The next day, he bought a pack of SMS instead.
Gold rush crawls to a standstill
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 06/12/2015
» It was a billion-baht aerial survey of potential mineral deposits that sparked an enthusiastic start to gold mining in Thailand 32 years ago. Foreign investors were wooed and local communities were excited about the idea of new roads leading into their villages.
The big business of saving lives
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 10/05/2015
» Patcharin Arabiya scurried to find 5,000 baht to secure a room at Thonburi Hospital’s coronary care unit while doctors performed CPR on her mother, Samruay Sopajaree. The 78 year old suffered a heart attack on March 24, 2013, an hour after arriving home from a visit to Khao Yai National Park.
Tapped-out TTW eyes other flows
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 26/02/2014
» Thai Tap Water Supply Plc (TTW), the country's biggest private tap-water supplier, plans to dilute its revenue from tap-water sales to 60-70% overall in the long term to sustain double-digit yearly growth.
BoI narrows SME focus to raise competitiveness
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 31/01/2014
» The Board of Investment (BoI) has adjusted its investment promotion for small and medium-sized enterprises, now focusing on four groups of SMEs.
Leave it to us
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 12/02/2013
» Boonlert Rattanayaem earns 200,000 baht each year from his eight-rai tobacco plantation.
FTI seeks bigger cushion
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 19/12/2012
» Business leaders have repeated their call for the government to increase the compensation fund offered to help offset the impact of the minimum wage hike.
Firms welcome target-industry incentives
Business, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 15/01/2013
» Business leaders have welcomed the Board of Investment's (BoI) new five-year promotion policy but cautioned the agency to cautiously abandon the existing zone-based regime following the nationwide minimum-wage hike.