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State banks increase interest rates to attract depositors
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/05/2023
» State banks are rushing to provide higher deposit rates to customers, including one scheme that offers up to 17%.
Foreign websites to pay VAT
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/07/2021
» Around 20 large overseas online platform operators plan to register as value-added tax (VAT) payers in Thailand, says Ekniti Nitithanprapas, director-general of the Revenue Department.
Ministry mulls tax on overseas online operators
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 10/06/2021
» The Finance Ministry is studying ways to slap corporate income tax on the overseas multinational online companies offering services in Thailand, said the Fiscal Policy Office's director-general Kulaya Tantitemit.
E-service tax poised to surpass B5bn
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/02/2021
» The Revenue Department expects tax revenue collection from the upcoming e-service tax to tally more than 5 billion baht per year as the pandemic crisis has stirred traffic on online platforms.
Land tax teeters
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 30/10/2020
» The persistent pandemic crisis at home and abroad is a decisive factor in whether the long-awaited land and building tax, which is the Fiscal Policy Office's (FPO) brainchild of 25 years, will produce the desired impact or not.
Land appraisal price growth below 8%
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 14/10/2020
» The new land appraisal prices, used as a base for the land and building tax collection, may not expand by the previously assessed rate of 8% because of the impact of Covid-19, says the Treasury Department.
Big projects facing delays, says Somkid
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/06/2020
» The Covid-19 pandemic has delayed major public-private partnership (PPP) projects, putting many six to 10 months behind schedule, according to Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak.
Rich get richer, poor get the picture
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 09/01/2020
» This year the new land and building tax law takes effect with the new tax regime hardly affecting ordinary people who do not own second homes. It rather effects super rich people who have owned land in amounts so vast that they would have to spend a good part of their life if they wanted to walk around every plot of their land.
Sepo urges TOT-CAT merger
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 15/06/2019
» The State Enterprise Policy Office (Sepo) will propose to the new government a plan to merge TOT Plc with CAT Telecom, a move deemed essential to helping the two state telecom firms turn the corner.
FPO certain of organic land laws
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 11/02/2019
» The Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) has expressed confidence that 20 organic laws for the land and buildings tax will sail through government scrutiny.