Help the country - go and have a soapy massage or enjoy some karaoke..... it's tax free!

[snoop1130]

Help the country - go and have a soapy massage or enjoy some karaoke..... it's tax free!

 

 

Thai media has announced what many will see as welcome news from the government - you can claim your tax back on a soapy massage or a night at the karaoke lounge.

 

Sanook (Money) reported that the government's "Shop for the Country 2017" tax break scheme will include two of the country's most well-known vices.

 

The incentive will allow individual taxpayers to deduct up to 15,000 baht of taxable income for the purchase of goods and services from November 11th to December 3rd. 

 

This is the third year of the scheme. Last year it only included retailers and distributors but this year it has been expanded.

 

Patricia Mongkhonvanit, deputy director general of the Revenue Department and acting spokeswoman, confirmed the tax breaks applied to soapy massage and karaoke. 

 

The measures are designed to 'stimulate' the economy by encouraging spending and will likely cost the government 2 billion baht. 

 

However, those thinking of a night out to help the country should beware - the tax breaks don't apply to alcohol or cigarettes. 

 

Just food and soft drinks and other "services". 

 

Source: http://money.sanook.com/525225/

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-11-9

[observer90210]

Can I get a tax refund  if I purchase a 200's box,  family size carton of condoms ?

[Redvic]

Always liked happy ending soapy’s

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[wakeupplease]

Governments usually do this when the cash piles are running low

[Moonmoon]

And they want to clean up pattaya... btw prostituition is illegal in Thailand.. oh make up your mind aldy , roadmap is for 20years.

[YouYouYou]

15k on <deleted>, umm wonder if the girls will give me a recipt. I will say the top man sez its ok, mai pen rai na?

[BigBadGeordie]

3 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

Governments usually do this when the cash piles are running low

Sounds right, they only have $189 billion left in foreign reserves?

[NRGF]

9 hours ago, Redvic said:

Always liked happy ending soapy’s

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Cant imagine why you would go for a soapy without a happy ending.

[r136dg]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The measures are designed to 'stimulate' the economy by encouraging spending and will likely cost the government 2 billion baht. 

There's much more of a "stimulate" than the economy;-)

I wonder if tourists can collect & cash in off receipts?

[Bob12345]

I will have to ask my wife to come along so they can put the receipt on her ID card number. 

 

Hope the bill will not show what happened inside otherwise its not worth the tax deduction.

[mark01]

I asked for tax relief one night on beach road.

Something got lost in translation.

I don't think she was VAT registered.

[Lupatria]

Who came up with this idea, "Pattaya Pimps United"?

[AhFarangJa]

1 minute ago, Lupatria said:

Who came up with this idea, a pimp?

Correct......A Politician or a Policeman........

[captspectre]

It was not to long ago when the boys in brown raided the massage parlors and arrested the clients, do they get a tax break on that? or is it just the falangs who get busted?

 

[xerostar]

Most of these services are paid in cash. I'm sure nobody seriously thinks it will be declared income !
When customers insist on a tax receipt they will most likely get a "discount" instead.

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[NextStationBangkok]

I hope it is not a spam or scam.

 

VAT Refund allowed ?

[Orton Rd]

Since when has karaoke been a 'vice'?

[JonnyF]

11 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

Since when has karaoke been a 'vice'?

 

Depends if you're talking about a Karaoke bar, or a "Karaoke bar".

 

In any case, I can't really imagine handing a receipt for a soapy massage to my HR Manager at the end of the year and asking him to sort out my tax refund. The whole company would know about it before I got back to my desk 

[realenglish1]

I think this is going to stimulate more than the economy

[brewsterbudgen]

And they want to clean up pattaya... btw prostituition is illegal in Thailand.. oh make up your mind aldy , roadmap is for 20years.

Some aspects of prostitution are illegal, but not soapies as long as they are licensed.

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[Tracyb]

..and everyone lived "happily" ever after!

 

[FritsSikkink]

13 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Can I get a tax refund  if I purchase a 200's box,  family size carton of condoms ?

Do you pay income tax?

[overherebc]

54 minutes ago, xerostar said:

Most of these services are paid in cash. I'm sure nobody seriously thinks it will be declared income !
When customers insist on a tax receipt they will most likely get a "discount" instead.

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Will we hear 'tax receipt or cash discount Sir' more often now?

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[FritsSikkink]

12 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

Governments usually do this when the cash piles are running low

No because this will cost them money, it is to help the retailers.

[FritsSikkink]

2 hours ago, r136dg said:

There's much more of a "stimulate" than the economy;-)

I wonder if tourists can collect & cash in off receipts?

No it is deduction of income tax.

[micmichd]

9 hours ago, Moonmoon said:

And they want to clean up pattaya... btw prostituition is illegal in Thailand.. oh make up your mind aldy , roadmap is for 20years.

What has prostitution got to do with this? Massage is kind of vegetative healing, and it's maybe sexual healing, so it's actually a medical service.

[chinostar]

Fake News guys, so sorry na ka...

[Sydebolle]

Well, don't get too excited over this good news yet.

The expense can, most likely, only be deducted against an official VAT receipt. Well, question is, if the soapy operators are VAT registered and what kind of text goes onto the receipt. 

If I, as a business owner, go and get happy on my company's expense, can I counter book the soapy's VAT charge as "input VAT" my end?

This is a lovely Pandora box of improbabilities - a tip to the hat of the boys in green; well done! 

[toofarnorth]

I don't pay tax . I am on a UK pension , why am I here ?   Could it be the OP pic , the one with the faceless girls.

Signed .................Matron , Maechan Home for wayward girls.

[JRUSA]

I'm sitting here wondering if I should be saddened by or prowd Tha I have not availed myself of a soapy nor kareoke or for that matter a normal massage..