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Treasury project boosts lease agreements
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/11/2024
» The Treasury Department is accelerating efforts to provide affordable state land leases for residential and agricultural purposes under the "Thanarak Eua Rat" (Treasury for the People) project, with a goal of issuing more than 3,900 lease agreements by 2025.
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.
Move for blanket cheques dismissed
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/04/2020
» The Finance Ministry has shrugged off proposals made by 20 parliament members from three coalition parties, saying the monthly 5,000-baht assistance cannot be handed out to all households as some are not affected by the pandemic.
Shutdown unlikely, says Uttama
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/01/2020
» Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana has rushed to assure that Thailand will not suffer a government shutdown, even in the worst-case scenario that the 3.2-trillion-baht annual budget bill for fiscal 2020 faces a further hold-up.
UTCC says budget delay will hit growth
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/01/2020
» The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) has flagged concerns that the economy could expand by less than 2.5% this year if the annual budget bill for fiscal 2020 hits further snags after some MPs were reported to have voted in favour of the bill without being present in the House.
BAAC allots B100bn for smart farms
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/11/2019
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) aims to lend 100 billion baht in the next two years to expand the smart farmer model to 4,500 communities nationwide, its chief says.
Uttama eyes tax adjustments
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 14/07/2019
» Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana on Saturday pledged to consider adjusting income tax and corporate tax to bring the two rates closer.
Booze raid ‘was legitimate’
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/02/2018
» The Excise Department has denied social media allegations that its officials recently raided a shop in Ratchaburi without a search warrant and unlawfully seized alcohol from the business.
Excise chief soothes fear over tax on duty-free spirits
Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 19/02/2018
» Director-general of the Excise Department Kritsada Jinavijarana has come out to ease the concern among drinkers that they could later be taxed for duty-free spirits.
Attorney-general asks for PTT pipeline delay
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2018
» The Attorney-General’s Office has asked the Supreme Administrative Court to push back the legal execution period for the return of PTT’s natural gas pipeline, which lapsed in December last year amid a legal dispute, says a Finance Ministry source familiar with the matter.