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Exim Thailand looks to lead CLMV push
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 09/02/2018
» Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Exim Thailand) aims for 9% lending growth this year, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and outbound investment in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV).
PTT, AoT dish out biggest bonuses
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2018
» National oil and gas firm PTT Plc and Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) emerged as the state enterprises paying the largest staff bonuses for last year’s operations, both at a rate of 7.5 months, says an informed source at the Finance Ministry.
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.
State firms outstrip target
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 13/02/2018
» State enterprises contributed 50.6 billion baht in income to government coffers for the October-to-January period, exceeding the target by 35%, says the chief of the State Enterprise Policy Office (Sepo).
Ministry aims to buoy 5.3m in poverty
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 13/02/2018
» The Finance Ministry wants to help all 5.3 million people living below the 30,000-baht-per-year poverty line to cross the threshold by next year, says Somchai Sujjapongse, permanent secretary for finance.
GH Bank sets cheap loans
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 13/02/2018
» State-owned GH Bank has rolled out a low-rate mortgage package charging 2.90% interest for the first two years in an effort to boost the bank's housing loan demand.
BAAC to refuel loan scheme
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 15/02/2018
» The state-owned Bank for Agricultural and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) plans to offer a new batch of the One Tambon One Farming SME loan scheme worth 50 billion baht after the first 72-billion-baht batch is set to be fully drawn down by next month.
Under 10% of returns filed
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 16/02/2018
» A meagre 1 million of 11 million individual taxpayers have filed personal income tax returns since the filing season started at the beginning of this year, the Revenue Department's chief says.
PDMO proposes hike in payment towards principal
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 19/02/2018
» The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) wants to raise the amount of budget paid towards principal with the aim of delivering fiscal sustainability.
FPO declares landlords can lock in windfall tax exemption
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/02/2018
» Landlords who lock in bumper profits from selling land near transport infrastructure projects can be exempt from the land windfall tax if they buy and sell the same plot during the same four-year implementation period of the Treasury Department’s land appraisal prices, says a tax expert at the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).