According to the Excise Department, the seized goods seized included 2. 6 million cartons of unusual cigarettes.
PUBLISHED: 5 Oct 2024 at 18: 04
The Excise Department anticipates paying nearly 2.5 billion ringgit in sanctions in cases involving exempt items in the fiscal year 2024 that ended on September 30.
The number of cases — involving goods such as cigarettes, liquor and motor vehicles — totalled 33, 000, an increase of 28 % from the previous fiscal year, according to Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul
Among the seizures were more than 2.6 million boxes of illegally imported tobacco and 300, 000 boxes of nontaxable home cigars, he said.
In addition to cigars, other items seized for tax evasion included 147, 300 containers of wine, 244, 723 jars of fragrance, 108, 259 gallons of beverages, 2.6 million litres of petrol, 1, 493 motorcycles and 89, 059 batteries.
” It is expected that when all the circumstances are concluded, the full charges will remain 2.46 billion baht”, said Mr Paopoom.
He claimed that the office is now focusing more on repression and studies across all systems. According to him, the Online Product Suppression Center makes better use of technology to investigate illegal activity on online programs.
The office also collaborates with additional companies, such as the Department of Provincial Administration, the Department of Business Development, the Department of Land Transport, the Central Investigation Bureau, Thailand Post, Flash Express, coastal police and the military to maintain the Excise Tax Act and assault offenders, he said.