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Low-cost rent policy targets low-income people, farmers
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/06/2024
» The Finance Ministry has announced a policy to allot 260,000 rai of state land to low-income individuals and farmers at minimal rental rates.
GSB sets higher bar for 2020 lending
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 16/01/2020
» State-owned Government Savings Bank (GSB) aims to extend loans worth 550 billion baht and raise the customer base to cover 41% of the country's population this year.
Minimum wage deduction set to rise
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/01/2018
» The Finance Ministry will soon seek cabinet approval to temporarily raise tax-deductible expenses for the minimum wage paid to employees to 1.15 times from 1 at present, an adjustment that can absorb employment costs of 9-10 baht a day per employee if it wins the nod, says Finance Minister Apisak Tantovorawong.
Picofinance apathy probed
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/10/2017
» The Finance Ministry will look into why there are no picofinance applicants in 14 provinces, says Pornchai Thiraveja, an adviser to the Fiscal Policy Office.
Monitor on farmer aid measures
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 06/07/2015
» The Finance Ministry will meet with more than 10 related state agencies today to ask them to expedite budget disbursement for job creation to help ease the financial burden on farmers hit by the worst drought in 10 years.
Three more hit in VAT sting
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 23/06/2015
» Two more high-ranking Revenue Department officials have been ousted, while a third has been forced to resign for serious misconduct due to involvement in a fraudulent value-added tax (VAT) refund scam that cost the government 4.3 billion baht in lost revenue.