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Understanding the tax liabilities of partners in an unincorporated joint venture
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 27/06/2017
» In doing business via a joint venture, knowing the tax implications could help you avoid potentially perilous situations. This includes understanding corporate laws that may affect the tax liabilities of the partners.
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When the spirit of the law shines
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 02/05/2017
» The current government has been trying very hard to make Thailand a jurisdiction that places more emphasis on substance and less on surface appearances. This is evident in recent legal reforms, but the attitudes of state authorities remain problematic. Many seem to believe that in order to be patriotic, the private sector must submit to any extra conditions that authorities impose above and beyond the legal framework.
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New tax legislation to comply with Fatca
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 16/05/2017
» On March 4 last year, Thailand and the United States entered into an agreement to improve international tax compliance and to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), which Washington introduced in 2010 in an attempt to discourage tax evasion by US citizens holding assets abroad.
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The miracle of taxation
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 21/03/2017
» Two hundred and forty years ago, the renowned economist Adam Smith set out four canons of taxation in The Wealth of Nations. A decent tax system, he wrote, should follow the standards of justice, certainty, convenience and economy.
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Tax deductibility of penalties and surcharges
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 04/04/2017
» What would you do if one day a government body issued a ruling that set aside a guideline you were required to comply with, and another day it issued another ruling requiring you to do a different thing, potentially exposing you to wrongdoing? Unfortunately, that day appears to have arrived in the case of the Board of Taxation, a panel drawn from various respected government agencies, appointed and empowered under the Revenue Code to provide interpretations on tax matters.
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Cross-shareholding rules and dividend tax exemptions clarified
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 19/04/2017
» Most people are aware that there are two major types of double taxation for income tax purposes. The first is juridical double taxation, in which one taxpayer is taxed twice on the same amount of income by two different jurisdictions. This is normally dealt with in the context of double-taxation agreements.
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Tougher measures against tax dodgers
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 21/02/2017
» The world is entering a new era in which national tax authorities are joining hands to set up a system to hound those who dodge paying their fair share of tax by applying unacceptable tax-planning schemes.
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Turning entrepreneurs into corporate entities
Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 07/03/2017
» February was a busy month in terms of new tax legislation. But this is just the beginning, as the director-general of the Revenue Department has also announced an ambitious plan to study extending Thailand's tax jurisdiction to overseas traders in cross-border e-commerce transactions. The idea is to generate tax revenue from online businesses, as the current legislation does not allow Thailand to tax foreign traders not doing business within the country.
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