The Nation har tidigare förklarat effekterna av förslaget.
Att det skulle leda till skattehöjningar för de lägsta inkomsterna som det påstås här, eller att de högsta inkomsttagarna
skulle gynnas våldsamt verkar vara taget ur luften
Det är relativt få härinne, kan man förmoda, om någon som själv betalar inkomstskatt i Thailand.
"Expatriate workers" påverkas marginellt sägs det i artikeln eftersom de oftast hör till de grupper som tjänar mest.
Så skrevs det om förslaget i början på juli.
The proposed income tax reduction may be enacted by the year-end with retroactive effect for all of 2013.
The Thai system of personal income taxation, like most systems, is based on a graduated scale of taxation,
with those earning lower incomes subject to lower taxation rates.
This is often referred to as taxation at "graduated rates". For example, an individual earning Bt500,000 per year
would pay zero tax on the first Bt150,000 of income and then pay taxes at 10 per cent on earning between Bt150,000 up to Bt500,000.
This results in a tax of Bt35,000 on the total income of Bt500,000.
The taxation rates are higher on higher incomes. Under the current personal income tax scheme,
the top percentage is 37 for any income over Bt4 million.
Thus, those at the top pay a high percentage of their income in taxes.
Under the proposed revisions, three new tax brackets will be created by adjusting the income subject to certain taxation rates
.
A new 5 per cent tax bracket will effectively be a tax cut in the personal income tax rates for those individuals earning Bt150,001-300,000.
This will effectively increase the net disposal income for lower income earners.
The same can be said for middle-income earners as the creation of a new 15-per-cent bracket
will apply to income ranging from Bt500,001 to Bt750,000.
The other new bracket is a 25-per-cent rate for those earning Bt1 million to Bt2 million.
These new rates should increase net disposable income (the income that people actually have in their pockets to spend).
In addition to the three new rates, the top marginal tax rate on income above Bt4 million will be reduced slightly,
down from the current 37 per cent to 35 per cent.
Thus, an individual earning more than Bt4 million a year will also see a reduction in taxes owed to the government
and have more income to spend.
All of these reductions should lead to increased consumption at all levels of income and, thereby, boost the Thai economy in the long run.
Läs vidare i tidningen.
Tabellen nedan kanske gör det tydligare:
De som tjänar under 150000 baht/år (12500 baht / månad) ska även fortsättningsvis inte betala någon inkomstskatt.
De som tjänar 12501-25000 baht per månad får sin inkomstskatt halverad från 10% till 5%
