Thailand: Last chance for tax-free assets swap

Last year, the revenue department allowed individuals and partnerships to enjoy a tax-free swap of business assets to a company, and reduced the transfer fee for immovable property to 0.1% of the government’s appraisal value. Many businesses proceeded with restructuring under this scheme, changing from either an individual or an ordinary partnership to a corporate entity. This allowed the business to pay tax at a flat rate of 20% of its net profit, and 10% of its profit sharing or dividend distributed to each shareholder, thereby reducing the effective tax rate to 28%.

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