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Home » News from Thailand » Former Prime Minister Thaksin receives an additional assessment from the tax authorities: 16 billion baht
Former Prime Minister Thaksin receives an additional assessment from the tax authorities: 16 billion baht
Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra may turn his piggy bank around, he will receive a tax assessment of 16 billion baht for the share transaction when his telecom company Shin Corp was sold to a Singapore company in 2010.
Thaksin has to pay this additional tax because, according to the Supreme Court, the shares actually belonged to him and not to his children, who acted as a kind of stooges. This construction was devised to mislead the tax.
The Thai government has summoned the Tax and Customs Administration to hurry up with the additional assessment because the statute of limitations expires at the end of this month.
Thaksin lives in a kind of exile in Dubai. His lawyers must show up at the tax office where they receive the assessment. Thaksin then has XNUMX days to appeal. The Tax and Customs Administration then forms a panel that assesses its objection. If rejected, he can appeal to the Central Tax Court.
Source: Bangkok Post
How would Thailand plan to collect that tax?
Unless, of course, he still has the necessary possessions in Thailand.
Incidentally, the government is a bit late to summon the tax authorities when the term expires in 4 days.
If the responsible official catches a flu, the term has already passed.
Or is it just for show?
After all, they've had years to do it.
Tackling that clown figure, I thought.
He probably has more of these kinds of transactions outstanding, which the tax authorities have not yet found out. Enriching yourself as a politician with this kind of dubious practice is simply not done. As a politician you have to work for the interests of the population? Has he ever done that? I don't think so. By Thai standards, ask for an extradition treaty in Dubay if possible and put him in prison for 20 years or more. I've always had my gut feelings about that character Thaksin and it turns out rightly so. Lately I've been relying more and more on my gut feelings and often that's right, it turns out again. A totally unreliable person who only wants to fill his pockets at the expense of poor society. We are talking about a sloppy 16 billion baht here and that is a lot of money, also for European standards. And then we are only talking about the amount of the tax. Hope that if they still collect the money, it will benefit the poorest in Thailand. Another gut feeling: I don't think so myself, that money will probably disappear among people who already have it very well, Welcome to Thailand farang, do not judge our system of corruption, because you will end up in jail . Ps Thaksin has more assets than we think. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Is on average 10% of the iceberg. Disgusting this kind of news. And if anyone disagrees with me, I'd like to hear about it.
Moderator: Please do not chat.
“Tackling that clown figure”? Are you talking about Thaksin alone or about more people at the top?
His transaction would have been approved first; after that 'they took a good look' and it turns out that tax is owed. He has, it is now said, pushed stooges and his children into the mix.
Much has been written about the treaties he signed on behalf of Thailand. A result of oligarchy, but don't we have it in this country?
Extradition: he will be wise enough to live in a country with which there is no treaty, or in a country that does not consider fiscal zones a crime and then you will not be extradited. I seem to remember that the man also has passports from Nicaragua and from Macedonia, countries where one can safely find refuge.
I don't think we'll ever see them here again. And to think that I once saw him depicted on an election poster next to the local hotemetoot with an ermine cloak and that heart of Isaan where many people are so poor that they can't even buy a warm sweater. Modesty was foreign to him.
Dear Hans,
In Thailand, no tax is payable on profits from trading shares of private persons. That's here:
https://www.set.or.th/en/regulations/tax/tax_p1.html
At the time, 10 years ago, this was already confirmed by the Thai tax authorities and various court cases in which that tax exemption was confirmed.
Why do people come back to that 10 years later? That is the question. My gut feelings say it has nothing to do with law but with politics.
Furthermore, I can report that most Thais believe that Thaksin did more for the common people than all governments before and after him. Health care, debt moratorium and the village funds. It's also true that he also did some very nasty things, such as the 'War on Drugs', stoking fires in the Deep South and gagging the press. On the other hand, it is not true that he enriched himself by abusing his position as prime minister. If you think otherwise, give me examples and sources…thanks.
What Thaksin did for the people of Isan had more to do with buying votes (with money from the government).
Just a way to take control.
It seems not impossible that if Thaksin had not been chased away, he would have been dictator over the whole country by now.
He was busy filling the army and police with family and friends.
Thaksin has also provided loans to the poor people of Isan – supposedly to start a business – but of which he knew very well that this money would be spent on luxuries (mobile phones, for example).
How many businesses can you start up in a farming village.
Everyone have their own shop and sell to each other?
Besides that, he had plans to reform agriculture.
Large cooperatives, where the farmers would work.
That would have turned all farmers into day laborers, who would only have work for part of the year.
Gone freedom, just work on the plantations of large landowners, undoubtedly for a minimum wage, or less.
No, Thaksin was not the best.
Providing the loans to the poor population has only been intended to take poor Thai's land as described above. If he couldn't pay back he lost his land. This has been a proven method of all banks around the world.
Ruud, let me first talk about buying votes. Read the following article in The Nation
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/aec/30225153 'Vote buying not decisive factor in an election'
Yes, ALL parties throw money before the elections, the Democrats the most, and after that most Thais vote for the party or candidate they like best based on party program or character of the candidate. Do you really think that for 500 baht once every four years they will vote for a party that does not represent their interests? You underestimate the Thais.
In 2005, my ex and a number of girlfriends were eating and drinking from the 1000 baht they received during an election campaign by the Democrats. "But what are you going to vote for then?" I asked. "Thaksin," they shouted in unison.
Yes, Thaksin wanted to stuff the army and police with his own people. All politicians do. He did not always succeed, given the coup of 2006.
Yes, many of those loans went to consumption and debt repayment, but I know from the village where I lived that good things were also done with it.
I don't know where you get these agrarian reforms from. Do you have a source?
Hans, it is not so much a question whether this action is right or not, but the question must be asked why only Taksin and not all the other billionaires in this country who do and have done the same.
There is some tinkering going on in Thailand and worldwide. Thaksin is an example of this. The three monks residing abroad another. The latter has more than 130 charges on his pants and that is not nothing.
Thaksn is a very handy guy and that sometimes causes bad blood.
Together with Yinglack and his children, they are now trying to exterminate Thaksin.
My gut says this won't work.
If he has so many possessions, I wouldn't cry.
After all, no one allows themselves to be seen in the kitchen.
Today the Bangkok Post reports that an unnamed Ministry of Finance official says the government has no leg to stand on. There are two reasons for this. The first is that Thaksin did not own the shares to which the profit relates, but two of his (adult) children. It is difficult to prove that adults act as proxies. Secondly, in Thailand there is no tax on profits on shares (sales).