Measures to cope with aged society

 

 

BANGKOK: -- In anticipation that Thailand will turn an aged society in the next eight years, the Finance Ministry and related agencies have come up with a number of measures to cope with the growing number of retirees or elderly people.

 

The aged population in Thailand is anticipated to number 14.4 million or 20 percent of the entire population in the year 2025.

 

The cabinet recently endorsed a measure to encourage the private sector to hire employees who are over 60 years old by allowing them to deduct twice the amount of actual salaries paid as expenses from their taxable incomes under the condition that the salaries do not exceed 15,000 baht/month per head.

 

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has been assigned by the cabinet to build housing projects for senior citizens or the retirees on state land in Chon Buri, Nakhon Nayok, Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai.

 

The National Housing Authority, the Government Housing Bank and Community Development Institute were also told to construct projects for the elderly by applying the model of Ban Pracharath programme.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/measures-cope-aged-society/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-01-04

An acquaintance of mine is in the government, working on the admn side, out of the spotlight...she informed me that many in the government knew of this problem for years...one huge problem that affects all aspects of public services is that only 3% of Thai men pay taxes...most work at temporary jobs, or they simply don't pay and a bribe to the right person stops any attempt to collect their taxes...the only people who really pay taxes are those employed by rather large companies, and these people are usually women...Thai men make little or no contributions to the society or culture...and this will impact the future of Thailand as more people need services (e.g., healthcare & road maintenance).

Now that's proof- increasing fatal road accidents alone won't do the job.

many countries around the world counter this with a skilled migration policy. not thailand however. birth rate has gone from 6 to 1.6 in a fairly short period. this is going to hurt thailand in the coming decades but there is very little being done about it.

10 hours ago, hdkane said:

An acquaintance of mine is in the government, working on the admn side, out of the spotlight...she informed me that many in the government knew of this problem for years...one huge problem that affects all aspects of public services is that only 3% of Thai men pay taxes...most work at temporary jobs, or they simply don't pay and a bribe to the right person stops any attempt to collect their taxes...the only people who really pay taxes are those employed by rather large companies, and these people are usually women...Thai men make little or no contributions to the society or culture...and this will impact the future of Thailand as more people need services (e.g., healthcare & road maintenance).

 

My friend (thai male) works for a big company. Suddenly he got a huge taxbill to pay which was impossible. He called the taxoffice and they claimed he had a huge salary that year. He told them it was impossible and somebody else must have used his taxnumber.

 

They couldn't help him with that, he just had to pay or go to the police. He contacted that person and met him (while i sat back him undercover) and the person promised to pay the extra taxcosts for him...so everybody was happy at the end. Problem solved.

 

That person had a big company and made big money so it was cheaper for him to just find a victim to use his taxnumber and make a deal with him.

" birth rate has gone from 6 to 1.6 in a fairly short period "

 

Hey I'm doing my best to make it 2.0 !!!