Tax

If you are thinking about buying a new condo, land or house this may be the time to act, as transactional fees at the land office after March may never be lower than now.

The Chonburi Excise Department from Region 2 recently held a conference to realize and study the current excise problems before planning to draw up an Excise Information Strategy. It was chaired by Miss Suchitra Laohawattanapinyo at the Tide Resort, Bangsaen beach.

MIAMI (AP) - NASCAR race driver Jimmie Johnson has testified in a Miami federal court in the Helio Castroneves tax evasion case.

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- The Swiss government said Sunday it will not attend a US Senate hearing on tax havens - an apparent protest against a US lawsuit aimed at forcing banking giant UBS AG to hand over data on tens of thousands of American customers.

Mr. Abhisit said the government would go ahead with the proposals as they are part of the country’s tax reforms and he believes he can gain coalition support for the new taxes. The new government is working to improve the public welfare system and property and inheritance taxes would expand the government’s revenue collection base at the possible expense of slowing investment and retirement in Thailand by foreigners.