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Airlines urge excise tax cut
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 14/06/2024
» Budget airlines are calling on the Finance Ministry to help reduce the excise tax on jet fuel to lower costs for airlines, which claim to be in a fragile state.
Minister suggests arrivals unlikely to meet forecast
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 28/12/2021
» The number of international tourists next year might be lower than the Finance Ministry's forecast because of the impact of the Omicron coronavirus variant, said Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.
BAAC hopes demand for loans recovers
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 02/11/2021
» The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) hopes that demand for its loans will pick up in the second half of its accounting year after the country's reopening on Nov 1, said president Tanaratt Ngamvalairatt.
Pandemic takes toll on tax collection
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 14/10/2021
» The three state tax collection departments have failed to meet their original revenue targets for fiscal 2021 as a result of the severe impact of the prolonged pandemic.
Ministry preps extra funds for Q4
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/09/2021
» The Finance Ministry will pump additional money into the economic system in the fourth quarter to further improve the flagging economy amid the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, said director-general of the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO), Kulaya Tantitemit.
Methods sought to ease airlines' liquidity crunch
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/09/2021
» Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith has instructed the Fiscal Policy Office and the Bank of Thailand to jointly seek ways to relax some of the criteria for state banks to lend to domestic airlines to improve their liquidity.
Arkhom cool to added borrowing
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/08/2021
» Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith says there is no need for the government to borrow additional money to combat the pandemic because the existing 500-billion-baht loan is sufficient.
EXIM set to extend debt relief
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 05/08/2021
» Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM Thailand) is poised to extend the two-month debt relief period that began last month for its customers until the end of the year to ease their burden from the impact of the pandemic, said the bank's president Rak Vorrakitpokatorn.
NESDC set to table new relief measures
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/07/2021
» The National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) plans to table before the cabinet on Tuesday remedy measures for those affected by the strict lockdown measures that took effect on Monday, says a cabinet source who requested anonymity.
Arkhom rebuffs fiscal criticism
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 05/02/2021
» The Finance Ministry has brushed off critics suggesting a near-bankruptcy status of the government's fiscal position by citing Thailand's economic fundamentals.