snoop1130 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Cabinet approves VAT for foreign digital platforms By The Nation The Cabinet has approved a draft bill that will levy VAT on international digital platforms, expecting the measure to net additional annual revenue of Bt3 billion. A Cabinet meeting on Tuesday (June 9) gave the green light to amend the Revenue Code to collect a value-added "E-Service" tax from foreign digital platforms that do not have a subsidiary company in Thailand. The draft was proposed by the Finance Ministry to collect revenue from overseas Internet-based service providers in Thailand. The spokesman said the new tax will not affect consumers. It will be levied on websites, applications, movies, music, games, and hotel reservations from international platforms that currently pay no VAT. Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30389332?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-06-09 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith101 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 What are they going to do send them an E-Bill telling them they have to pay tax GOOD LUCK WITH THAT . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukrules Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 34 minutes ago, keith101 said: What are they going to do send them an E-Bill telling them they have to pay tax GOOD LUCK WITH THAT . Maybe they will block them if they don't pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSomchai Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) They need all the money they can get, given they have stolen so much in the past Edited June 9, 2020 by LordSomchai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falang07 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 "The spokesman said the new tax will not affect consumers." Well, if they would charge VAT to the companies, they WOULD definitely have to charge it to the customers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobe Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 The issue is how are they going to know what amount to put in the bill they send to the foreign companies? The only way of doing this is for the government to have access to all credit card and online payments -at the level of each transaction, from all Thailand banks, CC companies and paypal etc. So much for any privacy. They will probably make more money selling the data to Alibaba than they get from the VAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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