Sharp tax hike on alcohol and tobacco effective immediately

[smedly]

13 minutes ago, Frotting said:

Now 17:15 and I just went to the local mom and pop shop in the moobaan.  The price now for a bottle of <deleted> LEO beer is 108 baht, same for CHANG.  Heineken is kind of weird as they are charging the same price of 108 baht.  Yesterday LEO was 48 baht, and CHANG about the same, Heineken 75 baht (all for large bottles).  For the LEO alone, by my calculations is an overnight increase of 125%.

 

 

looking as this thing unfolds your mom and pop store seems to have got their sums wrong, or there is a massive error in how this is being rolled out, average price increase for can of beer 0.5 baht....bottle 2.66baht

 

 

[Sir Swagman]

I am not sure but is this tax not on alcohol content? So beer at approx 5% in let's assume a 620ml bottle would attract the per litre tax at .03% of the rate. The old figures posted referred to 'pure alcohol' - I am assuming this is the same? Wine is roughly 13% alcohol/volume. Same should apply. But...... assuming anything there is fraught.

[thurien]

6 hours ago, Samuel Smith said:

What were the previous rates?  

 

less, obviously

[marino28]

24 minutes ago, ukrules said:

When they announced the 5 Baht tax increase on a pack of cigarettes the last time they did this the price of Marlboro red increased from 95 Baht to 125 Baht.

 

I wonder how much it will go up by this time.

 

5 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

Saw some Marlboro Reds in 7-11 this morning priced at 165 Baht.

 

 

one poster before said Marloro Red today in is 7-11 was priced at 165 Thb

[Moon6966]

And just across the border is Cambodia with nearly cheapest alcohol a tabacco anywhere. 

[JackGarbo]

6 hours ago, Maverell said:

A few people will be pissed by this .....well perhaps not !

Bought my usual Leo triple pack at 7/11 at 13.30, in BKK, same price Bt 164. No price change.

Edited September 16, 2017 by JackGarbo
time wrong

[Freed1948]

Don't understand this at all. At 4:30 this evening my local 7/11 was selling smokes at the old prices.

Guess they were just being good citizens.

Why can't the various manufacturers list the ex factory cost of their goods???

[The Deerhunter]

7 hours ago, otherstuff1957 said:

 

 Just as everyone expected... cheap lao khao and expensive wine. 

Of course.  Did we expect protectionism or common sense?  Obviously not common sense!!!  

[Freed1948]

My son just went to his local mini-mart SMS  went from 51 Baht to 88 Baht???? Somebody is doing a rip=off!!!!

The table above reads that they should cost 65 BAHT AT THE MOST!!!!!

[Rimmer]

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[Golden Triangle]

Going out in a little while, it's gonna be interesting to see if the prices in my local have changed, I'll let ya'all know a bit later 

[Suradit69]

38 minutes ago, car720 said:

Just an observation but when talking about the world possibly being blown to hell and gone by nukes we get about 3 or 4 pages but talk about booze and fags and we get 17 of more.   Says a lot about the demographic of expats in Thailand.

Well, at least that portion of the larger demographic that are TV members and who tend to devote much of their time to railing against everything.

 

 I find it amusing that whenever liquor sales are banned for a day or two (in theory anyway), coping with that proves to be too challenging for many long-term residents and now there are more predictions that tourism will cease to exist and that all of this is a preamble to a formal take over of Thailand by China.

 

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...but when talking about the world possibly being blown to hell and gone ...

That is what they're responding to in this thread. Their world is just a great deal smaller than it is for most of us and  is far less complicated but appears to be under threat by a conspiracy beyond their ken.

 

Edited September 16, 2017 by Suradit69

[Next stop NK]

6 hours ago, al007 said:

 SO  BUY  BUY    BUY

Well, there was an article the other Day saying that they made a new law giving up to 7 years, if I remember correctly in jail for hoarding plus an insane fine of several hundred thousands of THB, so up to you if you dare

[opalred]

will this affect  the rice whisky they brew in mountains around here

can buy for 20b a bottle 

maybe the locals will now put there own tax on

[Jonnapat]

Maybe I'm dreaming but I thought Prayut's main aim was to return happiness to the people. Doubt if the population will be very thrilled with these tax hikes, some of which are huge and will of course àffect the poor the most.

[sawadee1947]

7 hours ago, maeab101 said:

Maybe this will help some people to stop drinking.

yeah, healthy life will come finally for our very last days of life. Thank you Prayut,,,,,,,,,,

[Jonnapat]

If you look closely at the source for the new rates you will see that it comes from the EXCITE dept.

Not too much to get excited about for ordinary people

[CH1961]

3 hours ago, speedtripler said:

If you can get a submarine to Laos and back to pickup cheap beer and  cigarettes I'll be impressed lol

In a submarine to Laos ???

You drink to much :-)

[Andrew65]

2 hours ago, KMA said:

I am in czech rep right now and a great glass of Czech pilsner is around 20BHT!! A glass of wine is about 25BHT. Thais have once again put another nail in the tourist coffin. No one from the west wants to pay 5X more for <deleted> thai lager beer! Idiotic

Come January, I will be quite happy to be drinking expensive s**t beer in Thailand where it's 31C, while you're drinking delicious cheap Czech beer in Prague and it's -15C outside. I know what you mean, but that doesn't come close to being a good trade-off!

[nasanews]

I would say a rumor.

[wakeupplease]

After all this has anyone worked out what a packet of cigs and a bottle of beer will now cost in extra SAT

 

Submarine and arms tax

[CH1961]

1 hour ago, Frotting said:

The price now for a bottle of <deleted> LEO beer is 108 baht, same for CHANG.

For the LEO alone, by my calculations is an overnight increase of 125%.

You should change the shop .. or drink not so much :-)

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

How at Seven for a small can of Chang now?

 

 

 

 

[robblok]

I seen the rates in the BKK post (not sure if they are named here already) But I don't think they are that high. 

 

Some things even got cheaper like high priced beer. 

 

I typed it myself to prevent problems with the BKK post so apologies for mistakes.

 

 

Edited September 16, 2017 by robblok

[baboon]

4 minutes ago, robblok said:

I seen the rates in the BKK post (not sure if they are named here already) But I don't think they are that high. 

 

Some things even got cheaper like high priced beer. 

 

I typed it myself to prevent problems with the BKK post so apologies for mistakes.

 

 

Thanks for posting. Let's see what happens in the shops, however...

[moonseeker]

Amazing, 4 different shops asking for 3 prices (new). 4 different answers and explanations. What I could see that BIG C went from 890.-- to 969.-- for Montclair 5 L, that is all I can confirm so far.

Wholesalers told me, just sell bottle for 10 Baht more, should be enough, but we don't know yet...55555555 Wait & see.....MS>

[CH1961]

Cheers Shogun 50 Baht a can. Didn't know what's the price yesterday ... and don't even care ;-)

If you can't afford a beer, stay dry or stay away from Thailand :-(

[robblok]

Just now, baboon said:

Thanks for posting. Let's see what happens in the shops, however...

True... i mean.. this is just what a newspaper says..but if these are the amounts.. (except for cigarettes) the increase is not that high and my Hoegaarden (if I ever drink it) might get cheaper (tough i doubt it that they will calculate cost decreases too .. more profit for the supermarkets. 

[bleble]

So happy ! 

 

It means that we will drink better wine soon for the same price !

 

Because of course more and more people will smuggle alcohol from neighborhood countries, and this is exactly what I wish to this stupid government !

 

 

[Naam]

34 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

Well, at least that portion of the larger demographic that are TV members and who tend to devote much of their time to railing against everything.

 

 I find it amusing that whenever liquor sales are banned for a day or two (in theory anyway), coping with that proves to be too challenging for many long-term residents and now there are more predictions that tourism will cease to exist and that all of this is a preamble to a formal take over of Thailand by China.

 

That is what they're responding to in this thread. Their world is just a great deal smaller than it is for most of us and  is far less complicated but appears to be under threat by a conspiracy beyond their ken.