Departure tax proposed

[Leo_Bia]

Interesting 🤔

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2564461/departure-tax-proposed

Thais and foreign residents would pay 1,000 baht to leave the country via air under surprise levy

[Billy Shears]

You can check-out anytime you want, but you can never leave.

[1tooth]

What a pain!

[kd_traveller]

Wow, before they have even introduced the latest tax of 300baht for arrivals they are already thinking about the next one!

They must have also forgotten that there is already a 700baht departure tax included in existing tickets!

[Leo_Bia]

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https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2565249/departure-tax-just-opinion-survey-will-not-be-imposed

Departure tax just opinion survey, 'will not be imposed'
PUBLISHED : 7 MAY 2023

Winit Wisetsuwannaphum, deputy director-general of the department, said on Sunday that the department did not plan to impose the departure tax of 1,000 baht for outbound flights and 500 baht for exit by land or sea for Thais and foreign residents. 

He referred to a 1983 executive decree concerning the departure tax.

Mr Winit said although a ministerial regulation has waived the departure tax since 1991, the constitution required the department to assess the suitability of the old executive decree.

Therefore, the Revenue Department conducted the opinion survey on the tax on its website www.rd.go.th from May 3 to 17, he said.

"There is not a plan to collect the departure tax," Mr Winit said.

By the end of next year the department would conduct opinion surveys on laws on inheritance tax and petroleum income tax (PT), he said.

PT is a direct tax, levied annually (for each accounting period of 12 months duration) on net profit of a “petroleum taxpayer” involved in the business of petroleum exploration and production. It is also levied on the disposal of profits outside of Thailand.