Popular Post webfact Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 An airplane flying away from Phuket after taking off from the island’s airport. Photo: [email protected] (CC BY 2.0) by TNR Staff THE REVENUE Department denied it is going to start collecting 1,000 baht air departure tax from Thais and foreign residents with the current online public hearings on this issue only being held to comply with a key law, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Winit Visetsuvarnabhumi, the department’s deputy director-general, said public hearings on a departure tax of 1,000 baht for air travel and 500 baht by land and sea taking place during May 3-17, 2023 had to be held to evaluate the effectiveness of an emergency decree on the departure levy, based on a law passed in 1983. This is necessary to comply with the 2017 Constitution and the Act on Legislative Drafting and Evaluation of Law B.E.2562 (2019) as well as a Cabinet resolution passed on January 19, 2021. Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/05/07/no-departure-tax-being-implemented-revenue-department/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2023-05-08 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. 1 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bob smith Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 flip flop much? 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ezzra Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 8 minutes ago, webfact said: THE REVENUE Department denied it is going to start collecting 1,000 baht air departure tax from Thais and foreign residents Good, and keep it that way, Thank you. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Laughing Gravy Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 Oh dear Less than a day and they change their mind. Who would have thought! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mitkof Island Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 Just another stupid idea. Maybe time to put the bong down and fix so many issues the Thai government itself has create. Who are the idiots in charge? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 Sounds like someone got caught with there pants down after telling folks about the proposal. Hard to not post a retraction, but whose head will now be on the chopping block for letting this out. 45 minutes ago, webfact said: Mr. Winit Visetsuvarnabhumi, the department’s deputy director-general, said public hearings on a departure tax of 1,000 baht for air travel and 500 baht by land and sea taking place during May 3-17, 2023 had to be held to evaluate the effectiveness of an emergency decree on the departure levy, based on a law passed in 1983. Someone is tip toeing around the story and trying to save some FACE it appears by blaming a law passed 40 years ago. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HappyExpat57 Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? How many of us got whiplash over THIS one? 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NemoH Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 So impressed with Government respond to public anxieties over this tax…probably the fastest reaction from any world governments. Very impressed. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 We will. No we won't. Yes, we will and it will be more. Oh, I guess we shouldn't. Maybe we should. Should we get advice? Oh, it might hurt tourism. Really? We hadn't thought of that before. Now we won't. Guess it was a bad idea, after all. Maybe we are not genius minds. Maybe we are bottom of the barrel selections, as some have indicated. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted May 8, 2023 Author Share Posted May 8, 2023 No plan to impose departure tax on outbound Thais – Revenue Department Thailand’s Revenue Department has no intention of imposing a departure tax on Thai nationals and permanent foreign residents travelling out of Thailand, as has been widely misunderstood. Revenue Department Deputy Director-General Winit Wisetsuwannaphum said in a statement, issued yesterday (Sunday), that they are merely gathering public opinion about the proposed departure tax of 1,000 baht for air travel and 500 baht for land and sea travel, as part of a legal process, in line with constitutional requirements, to assess the impacts of the proposal. He explained that the departure tax, which was originally 5,000 baht, was proposed in an executive decree, promulgated in 1983, but not due to be enforced until 1991, when a ministerial regulation was issued to put the proposed departure tax on hold and to introduce the new rate. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/no-plan-to-impose-departure-tax-on-outbound-thais-revenue-department/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-05-08 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post khunjeff Posted May 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2023 If there's really a law requiring them to waste time holding hearings on a tax that hasn't been levied in over 30 years - in order to "assess its effectiveness" - that would truly raise the bar for bureaucratic inanity. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StayinThailand2much Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 (edited) Next they will make polls not on decrees from 1983, but 1883 or 1783... Amazing (laughing stock) Thailand! Edited May 8, 2023 by StayinThailand2much 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikke1959 Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 (edited) It will be implemented differently, with more expensive landing and departure rights for the airlines or so... They always wins if it is about money and the public will blame the airlines... Edited May 8, 2023 by ikke1959 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 2 hours ago, bogs smith said: flip flop much? No, it was never anything more than a questionnaire, the RD never said that it was going to be implemented, lots of AN "last-nail-in-the-tourism-coffin-money-grabbing-government" posters, wrongly, assumed it to the case, though. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said: Oh dear Less than a day and they change their mind. Who would have thought! There was no mind-changing, it was always just an initial questionnaire. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 21 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said: ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? How many of us got whiplash over THIS one? Only those who chose to misrepresent what was actually the case from the beginning. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smedly Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 maybe I'm missing something - doesn't everyone pay tax when you buy a ticket 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, wealthychef said: Did they actually change their minds or is this just typical sloppy click-bait reporting with a clarification? No, they did not have a change of mind, the only sloppiness was that demonstrated by those posters who misinterpreted (or deliberately misconstrued) the original reports about a questionnaire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 4 minutes ago, smedly said: maybe I'm missing something - doesn't everyone pay tax when you buy a ticket Yes, but this was a questionnaire/research about a tentative additional amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Forwarding Address Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 I seem to remember paying a 500 baht departure tax in a booth right after check-in all the way up to about 2005..............you couldn't get past Security without the Tax Stamp Coupon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Yet another monumental fart which will resurface in some years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said: Oh dear Less than a day and they change their mind. Who would have thought! If only they had an Olympic sport on back flips they'd win gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Gravy Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 If I was a gambling man I would go for a flip flop.???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wealthychef Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 53 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said: No, they did not have a change of mind, the only sloppiness was that demonstrated by those posters who misinterpreted (or deliberately misconstrued) the original reports about a questionnaire. I would blame the reporters who deliberately titled their article to make it seem they were going to charge 1000 ฿ when they apparently never were going to. This kind of disinformation for profit is a hallmark of our hypercapitalist times in my view. (Honestly, I'm fun at parties, I promise!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqwakvfr Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 This could have been the old proverbial "trial balloon"? Obviously the temperature in the room got very hot and very quick. This idea will have to tabled and revisited in the future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 14 minutes ago, wealthychef said: 1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said: No, they did not have a change of mind, the only sloppiness was that demonstrated by those posters who misinterpreted (or deliberately misconstrued) the original reports about a questionnaire. Expand I would blame the reporters who deliberately titled their article to make it seem they were going to charge 1000 ฿ when they apparently never were going to. This kind of disinformation for profit is a hallmark of our hypercapitalist times in my view. How about blaming those who "read" the copy of the scores of articles and propagated it as fact, none of which reported that the tax was going to be imposed, for the "disinformation"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StayinThailand2much Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, smedly said: maybe I'm missing something - doesn't everyone pay tax when you buy a ticket Airport taxes, yes. But this was supposed to be an extra tax by the Revenue Department to fill the government's coffers (perhaps used to buy more submarines, or whatever), as opposed to the AOT's imposed tax to pay for the upkeep of airports. Edited May 8, 2023 by StayinThailand2much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gknrd Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said: Only those who chose to misrepresent what was actually the case from the beginning. Party pooper.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpool Lou Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Just now, Gknrd said: 1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said: Only those who chose to misrepresent what was actually the case from the beginning. Party pooper.. I'm glad that I'm appreciated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Mist Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 A reported post has been removed as well as being removed as a quote in several other posts. Remember the forum rules: 17. The ASEAN NOW news team gathers and disseminates news bulletins from Thai and international sources, and republishes them in the news forums for our members' information and enjoyment. Our news team works hard to bring quality content to the news forums and should be respected for their efforts. Comments such as "slow news day" or "clickbait headline" are disrespectful and unwelcome. Such comments will be sanctioned. Original articles, especially in the Thai or foreign language press can sometimes have grammatical mistakes or misspellings. ASEAN NOW is not responsible for these nor does ASEAN NOW have the right to alter content it is reprinting from another source. Similarly, ASEAN NOW is not responsible for any opinions reflected or quoted in reprinted news stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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