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Democrat lessons
Postbag, Published on 17/03/2026
» Re: "Democrats chart a cautious course", (BP, March 14).
Smart tax move
Postbag, Published on 24/05/2025
» Re: "Department to amend tax on foreign income remittance", (Business, May 19).
Back to the future
Postbag, Published on 04/05/2025
» Re: "VAT mulled for firms with less revenue -- B1.8m threshold may be erased", (Business, May 2).
Few on the payroll
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2025
» Re: "Govt bets on casinos", (BP, Jan 14). Amongst all the pie-in-the-sky estimates of potential economic benefits and tax hauls from proposed casino entertainment complexes, I was flabbergasted to see that advocates were only anticipating the creation of 9,000 to 15,000 new jobs should the proposals be approved.
Consider real tax reform
Postbag, Published on 08/12/2024
» Re: "15% VAT plan has PM vexed", (BP, Dec 6).
Snakes on screen
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/09/2024
» Re: "Thai casinos are looming, you can bet on it", (PostScript, Sept 8).
Warped curiosity
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/09/2024
» Re: "Taste of hell", (BP photo, Sept 1). It is bad enough that kids are encouraged to play with guns and clamber all over tanks on Army Day, but now we have a shopping centre that has established a "Hell Space" for a week to entertain curious, and I mean curious people, including youngsters.
Higher booze prices
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/08/2024
» Re: "Scholar calls for booze law overhaul", & "Moonshine death toll up in capital", (BP, Aug 28).
Stats don't add up
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2024
» Re: "Astra jab blood clots 'rare' insists institute", (BP, May 4). One in 10 million in Thailand and one in 100,000 in the UK? How can the National Vaccine Institute possibly reconcile such a large sigma statistical anomaly and claim the risk of vaccine-induced blood clots is extremely rare in Thailand while it is criminally deadly in the UK? Worldwide, young people have been harmed and have died from blood clots -- a phenomenon that has never before been seen in these huge numbers.
Juggling funds
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/03/2024
» Re: "EC asked to probe minister's shares", (BP, Feb 26).