webfact Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Customs Dept will listen to opinions on new import tax structure BANGKOK, 12 October 2017 (NNT) - The Customs Department will meet with entrepreneurs in the automotive industry to listen to their opinions about price estimation and a new tax structure for imported cars. Director-General of the Customs Department Kulit Sombatsiri said today the current tax calculation is based on the price that appears on the import entry issued by the country of origin. If there is no import entry document, the department will use price references on the Internet and deduct expenses before calculating the tax. The Department of Special Investigation earlier found that 230 luxury cars, had been declared on entry at import prices lower than the real prices. The director-general expects it will take one more month to conclude the new tax structure. Mr.Kulit disclosed that in 2016, the department lost two-billion-baht in revenue from luxury car imports due to ASEAN's "From D" that cuts taxes to 0%. The new tax structure will further decrease the department's revenue from import taxes, said the director-general. -- nnt 2017-10-12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakeupplease Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 lost two-billion-baht in revenue Ho Ho Ho Over taxing other countries products so as to protect the Hiso local owners, other countries need to just tax the rice and sea food to the same degree and watch those import taxes here drop over night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehowden Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Or even "FORM D" ! You didn't lose revenue, you were simply conforming to the law agreed as part of ASEAN TRADE arrangements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 drop the import taxes on new and used cars you morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 The meeting then adjourned for lunch and the Customs officials were never seen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meinphuket Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 It is time for Thailand's imports in Western countries to be taxed at the same inappropriate levels Thailand imposes on Western imports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterwhisper Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 1 hour ago, meinphuket said: It is time for Thailand's imports in Western countries to be taxed at the same inappropriate levels Thailand imposes on Western imports. I wholeheartedly agree. 180% import tax on Thai prawns seems about right; just as they do with foreign wines. But then - as always - the whining on part of Thailand will start, and how it is all so unfair and how Thailand is such a poor country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Media1 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 This should headline. The new Extortion Structure. Your country will never thrive because the Thai brain thinks only let's get as.much cash as we can now. Not worry about next time. A laughable tax system and just plain robbery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Media1 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 This should headline. The new Extortion Structure. Your country will never thrive because the Thai brain thinks only let's get as.much cash as we can now. Not worry about next time. A laughable tax system and just plain robbery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossy Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 (edited) 6 hours ago, webfact said: The Department of Special Investigation earlier found that 230 luxury cars, had been declared on entry at import prices lower than the real prices. The director-general expects it will take one more month to conclude the new tax structure. Like every other government department in this most lethargic of countries, the Customs cretins simply don't know what work is. Imagine that luxury car scam being tried in Europe or the USA or Australia; the dimmest documents clerk would have smelled a rat, after the very first car was unloaded and he/she would have wanted to see how far his bit of good observation work progressed; to the apprehension of bad guys, maybe . . . the very job ethos is centred around catching the bad guys. Here, sadly, like with the Police, there is that all-pervading 'that sounds like too much trouble' attitude. Not one car, but 230 of the things, got beyond Customs, before someone thought to mention something to someone. How pathetic is that? And, to cap it all, director-general Kulit says he'll need another month to conclude a new tax structure. In any viable corporate setting, one month is like a life-time in its achievement potential. How many men, if any, besides him, will be sat, beavering away at this mammoth task of concluding a scale of taxes? Prayuth and his pantomime will have their work cut out to salvage anything resembling decency from the main culprits of under-performance, if his justa-jiffy government are to stand a chance of making a good name for themselves. Or, more bluntly, it will never, ever happen, so long as lethargy prevails. Now then, where's the Education Forum . . . anybody seen it? Edited October 12, 2017 by Ossy omission Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 6 hours ago, davehowden said: Or even "FORM D" ! You didn't lose revenue, you were simply conforming to the law agreed as part of ASEAN TRADE arrangements. I'm assuming he was talking about scams like what occurred with the BMTA's now lost NGV buses -- which were actually manufactured in a non ASEAN country, and then reshipped to a no/low import tax ASEAN country before arriving in Thailand so they could falsely claim to have been manufactured there. Great scam... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike324 Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 11 hours ago, NCC1701A said: drop the import taxes on new and used cars you morons. I agree, by dropping import taxes, it may increase tax collection and reduce tax frauds in terms of grey market imports, and dodging taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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