Government denies hunt for Thaksin’s tax is politically motivated frame-up

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The military junta's yesterday dismissed allegations that the renewed attempt to collect capital gain tax from the fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra was politically motivated.

 

Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, the  deputy prime minister for security affairs, insisted that the military-installed government’s plan to collect tax from Thaksin Shinawatra over the Shin Corp stake sale in 2006 has nothing to do with politics.

 

Prawit’s comment came after Dr Wissanu Krea-ngam, deputy prime minister for legal affairs, instructed the Revenue Department to complete a tax assessment by the end of March as the statute of limitation will expire March 31.

 

However Gen Prawit declined comment on the Revenue Department’s tax assessment plan saying the issue has nothing to do with the government.

 

The Revenue Department and the Finance Ministry have to perform their duties and that it is not a politically motivated frameup, he said.

 

Meanwhile under the instruction of Dr Wisanu, the Revenue Department will have to forge ahead with the process of tax assessment and will officially inform Thaksin of the result before March 31.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/government-denies-hunt-thaksins-tax-politically-motivated-frameup/

 

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However Gen Prawit declined comment on the Revenue Department’s tax assessment plan saying the issue has nothing to do with the government.

 

 

Said with a straight face.

 

 

Cough   cough  

 

Of course not.

Isn't it funny that in his ancestral homeland he would be Executed by now for massive Theft.Lot to be said for Old Values .


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Yeah, while i too have reasonable doubts about it 'not being politically motivated' in this case ... still, it shouldn't or needn't to be at all.

I mean if he - or anybody else for that matter - evades taxes they should be held accountable, not much more to say there.

 

Certainly a long and stony road here to get this going ... 

No one would have ever suggested that...

LOL 

tax them all!!!!

Really hard to swallow the dismissal of political motivation. Tax laws and top tax officials already said  that there was no capital gain tax on buying and selling of shares. Then just after '06 coup, the military government tried again to demand payment of tax which court ruled that it was not taxable. New coup and again the military concoct a miracle of law to get the tax. The pattern is so blatantly obvious that no one can say that with a straight face except by Prawit and Sansern. 

Even if it was politically motivated, just go ahead!

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Really hard to swallow the dismissal of political motivation. Tax laws and top tax officials already said  that there was no capital gain tax on buying and selling of shares. Then just after '06 coup, the military government tried again to demand payment of tax which court ruled that it was not taxable. New coup and again the military concoct a miracle of law to get the tax. The pattern is so blatantly obvious that no one can say that with a straight face except by Prawit and Sansern. 

 

And just what would you expect the revenue / tax, etc., officials to say when the man is breathing down their necks.

 

Your so naive.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Government denies hunt for Thaksin’s tax is politically motivated frame-up

Please please stop with these belly laughs my stomach cannot handle any more. Number 4 today. Then when you look at the mouthpiece of this statement it just increases the propensity to laugh even more. 

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Really hard to swallow the dismissal of political motivation. Tax laws and top tax officials already said  that there was no capital gain tax on buying and selling of shares. Then just after '06 coup, the military government tried again to demand payment of tax which court ruled that it was not taxable. New coup and again the military concoct a miracle of law to get the tax. The pattern is so blatantly obvious that no one can say that with a straight face except by Prawit and Sansern. 

 

Not so black and white though Eric. Thaksin changed laws, and be honest also bent or ignored them whenever it suited. The fall out from this was what prompted him to dissolve parliament with a view to going to the polls to gain a new mandate and in which case he could have said the people backed him. However he then decided to resign the caretaker PM role, then totally without any authority take it back again and was accused of then delaying holding an election. Not the actions of someone who thinks they're totally in the right. More like full of maybes and ifs. 

 

The other side of the coin Eric, is that the revenue department and its officers were discouraged or frightened to take action again the Shin family whilst any Shin owned government were in power and were wary of retributions for actions taken whilst they are out of power.

 

 

6 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

Please please stop with these belly laughs my stomach cannot handle any more. Number 4 today. Then when you look at the mouthpiece of this statement it just increases the propensity to laugh even more. 

 

Only it's not necessarily a frame up. Thaksin changed laws to accommodate himself and not always by the correct procedure. 4 Tax officials have been imprisoned for helping his children evade tax. 

 

The selectivity might be politically motivated, but you could argue that not going after him or members of his family for anything whilst one of his government was in power was also politically motivated.

And we will not expect any tit for tat actions when the shoe eventually gets on the other foot. 

Thaksin changed laws. The new government are changing laws. Funny how these laws aren't benefiting the people. 

 

Cheques and balances. Without them you're nothing but a country with one corrupt government after another. 

 

No one here can claim the moral high ground. 

Edited March 17, 20179 yr by rkidlad

Everyone has been advised it's Junta time for the next twenty years , Thai people will have twenty years of lies, may as well start here.........................

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

Only it's not necessarily a frame up. Thaksin changed laws to accommodate himself and not always by the correct procedure. 4 Tax officials have been imprisoned for helping his children evade tax. 

You got this wrong. The tax officials are out on bail and awaiting appeal. The thing is that 2 courts have different opinion. The Central Tax Court rejected the tax demand request while the criminal court decision was quite the contrary. Nothing is done and dusted. The appeal court decision will see matters clearer. 

Of course it is capital gain.

It has been pushed under the rug ,,,hoping it would go away.

Bit like the Son of the Red Bull family.

Both want the statute of limitations to run out, so the brown paper bags can be kept

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The Revenue Department and the Finance Ministry have to perform their duties

Oh Utopia if this were only true for one and all. 

Does seem of late that they are desperate to lay their hands on any cash they can so might not be so much political as opportunistic.

Edited March 17, 20179 yr by Orac

On 3/17/2017 at 11:17 AM, Eric Loh said:

Really hard to swallow the dismissal of political motivation. Tax laws and top tax officials already said  that there was no capital gain tax on buying and selling of shares. Then just after '06 coup, the military government tried again to demand payment of tax which court ruled that it was not taxable. New coup and again the military concoct a miracle of law to get the tax. The pattern is so blatantly obvious that no one can say that with a straight face except by Prawit and Sansern. 

I believe there is no tax if you buy / sell through stock market. Transfer of shares still incur tax, not only that the siblings failed to file any tax returns.

 

Section 39 of the Revenue Code – Assessable income is income that is prescribed as being assessable income in the Revenue Code, and includes property and other “benefits received that are ascertainable in terms of money”.

 

Board of Taxation Ruling No 28/2538 – For individuals receiving shares under a special arrangement, free of charge or at a price lower than market price, such individuals receive benefits ascertainable in terms of money, which is assessable income under Section 39 of the Revenue Code.

 

But that is not the problem here as well, there was NEVER any transfer of shares to the Thaksins children. So this whole story regarding to Thaksins children is a complete lie or that the documents submitted to the courts by Thaksin were false as well. What happen is that documents show the sale taking place between Thaksin and his children, but in reality no shares were transfer.

 

Either way this whole case is a complete cover up as Thaksin could not have conducted the sale under his name while he was PM as well. So he try to pretend that the sale was conducted under his childrens names / ample rich shell company.

 

So the government is still are crazy for going after the children, when its Thaksin who is the criminal.

Edited March 18, 20179 yr by mike324