Economy Experts Urge Thailand to Scrap Tiered Cigarette Tax

[JoePai]

10 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

A good stupid idea without thinking.. Make vaping which is less unhealthy illegal but the normal cigarettes makes the cheaper, which worse for your health and will cost more for healthcare of the people.. The best solution is make vaping legal and tax it and the same with cigarettes all at least 42 % tax on it.. Look at the wines.. they are too expensive too because of the tax, and although it promised to lower the tax it never is done and the prices are still too high.. With less tax people will buy more with the result that the tax income will be more.. and for cigarettes it is the same if you want that people stop smoking make it expensive.. Find out what InEurope a package of cigarettes costs because of the high taxes... and I know there will people say Thai people earn less, but if the price will be 100 THB a pacakage I am sure there will be less smoking. The problem however is that the rich owns the tobacco industry and they don't want to loose money and profits, the rest they don't care about 

Please stop being sensible - some forum members can't accept  🤣

[BangkokReady]

8 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

23 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

They don't want to tax the vapes.  This is about stopping people from vaping because that would lead to less cigarettes being purchased.

 

Nope. See above.

 

No idea what point you are making in response to me.  Please make your points more clear.

[ikke1959]

7 hours ago, JoePai said:

Please stop being sensible - some forum members can't accept  🤣

I don't care it is not my country..... not my future,.... not my problem ..... Thai people are masters in self destruction

[impulse]

On 5/3/2025 at 10:29 AM, BangkokReady said:

I don't think that would help the tobacco manufacturers much.

 

Simple solution would be to only sell the vaping tax stamps to the usual suspects, then arrest anyone who sells vapes with no tax stamp.   

 

Double bonus...  They'd reduce the number of dodgy vaping products where nobody really knows what they're puffing on.

 

The same monopoly(s) would dominate the vaping industry, just like they do most of the other vices that are taxed to death.  Hopefully, they'd do a better job of QA than what we see now.

 

 

[Will B Good]

 

 

Shop owner in our village has just been prosecuted for breaking open packs of two hundred to sell packets of 20 individually.

 

All I can think is that restricting sales to packs of 200 is a cockamamy Thai attempt to put the price of cigarettes beyond on the means of kids???

[BangkokReady]

9 minutes ago, impulse said:

Simple solution would be to only sell the vaping tax stamps to the usual suspects, then arrest anyone who sells vapes with no tax stamp.   

 

Double bonus...  They'd reduce the number of dodgy vaping products where nobody really knows what they're puffing on.

 

The same monopoly(s) would dominate the vaping industry, just like they do most of the other vices that are taxed to death.  Hopefully, they'd do a better job of QA than what we see now.

 

Yeah, I feel like the vapes are easier to sell illegally.  Not exactly sure why.

[impulse]

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

Yeah, I feel like the vapes are easier to sell illegally.  Not exactly sure why.

 

They are.  You'll never eliminate the illegal ones.  Just reduce them.  And hopefully improve the QA.