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Carbon tax implementation in the offing
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 04/02/2025
» Thailand is set to implement a carbon tax this month as part of its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote environmental sustainability.
BAAC unveils scheme for carbon credits
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2024
» The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) plans to purchase 510,000 tonnes of carbon credits within five years, says president Chatchai Sirilai.
SMEs urged to look beyond Thailand
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 28/11/2022
» The courage to venture to overseas frontiers and easier access to loans are the key factors to facilitate small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) becoming exporters, according to lenders and industry leaders.
B5bn for economic tree loans
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 27/09/2019
» The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) plans to provide low-interest loans worth 5 billion baht for the purpose of planting economic trees to farmers and rural communities.
Incentive to spur tree growth
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 28/12/2018
» The Revenue Department wants to let individual and corporate taxpayers deduct expenses incurred from planting high-value trees from their income tax to comply with the government's push to raise the number of such trees to 1 billion in the next decade.
Tree bank loan amount rises
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/08/2018
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has raised the maximum loan amount under its tree bank scheme to 80% of collateral value from 50% to attract more people to grow high-value trees.