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Land and buildings tax to get chop
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 03/06/2020
» The cabinet yesterday approved a sharp cut in the land and buildings tax of up to 90% for this fiscal year, the latest move to alleviate fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Delay on land and building tax urged
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 21/04/2020
» The private sector has proposed the government to put off the new land and buildings tax act for a year, citing the current economic environments are not yet proper to start a collection in August this year as scheduled.
Filling in the power gaps with independent energy
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 23/10/2019
» As recently as six years ago, the 400 households in Ban Wang Won Chonprathan in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, went dark at sundown, as the village was not connected to the grid.
Micro-SMEs struggle for funds
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 05/12/2018
» Amporn Khamsuwat, 60, like so many people in Thailand, has aspirations to grow her small business. For over a decade, she's been hand-crafting quality clothing to supply shops at the bustling cotton market in Don Luang village in Lamphun province, and wanted to hire a new generation of weavers to breathe fresh air into her business.
Cabinet backs B4bn for subsidised housing
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 04/01/2018
» The cabinet yesterday approved 4 billion baht to build houses for low-income earners and allow the private sector to form a joint venture with the government for related construction projects.
Sharing the Karen way of life, sufficiently
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 23/10/2017
» Phanon Khorsook, 24, faced disappointment and confusion from his parents and community when he decided to return to the mountainous village in Uthai Thani where he was born after earning a bachelor's degree in political science from Nakhonsawan Rajabhat University.
PM orders another land tax rethink
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 21/03/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the Finance Ministry to study the possibility of reducing the controversial land and buildings tax to only a land tax.