News Forum - Thailand to apply alcohol tax to non-alcoholic beer

[Thaiger]

Not only is Thailand planning on increasing existing tax on all types of alcohol, but also plans on applying the alcohol tax to non-alcoholic beer, according to Director-General of the Revenue Department Ekniti Nitithanprapas. Ekniti said that the department will increase tax on all types of alcohol, in the fiscal year 2023, to help combat alcoholism among Thailand’s youth. More and more young Thais are drinking heavily, so the price hike aims to reduce alcohol consumption and improve overall health of the public, he said. The sincerity of Ekniti’s concern for the public’s health is questionable at best because he also […]

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[ThaiEyes]

Sorry but this is almost the most idiotic thing I have heard, next to the stupid stamps they put on ginger beer

[HolyCowCm]

Alcohol is already too expensive. I call BS to this claim. It's all about money in their pockets nothing more and nothing less. Kids will drink no matter what.

[palooka]

Pepsi and Coke next.  Make a lot more money.

[kanon64]

Non-alcoholic beer like Heineken Zero is already priced almost the same as Chiang and Leo! If you want people to drink less and drive safer: This is a major step backwards! Please think this over one or three times more!

[palooka]

2 minutes ago, kanon64 said:

Non-alcoholic beer like Heineken Zero is already priced almost the same as Chiang and Leo! If you want people to drink less and drive safer: This is a major step backwards! Please think this over one or three times more!

Some idiot with power thought it a great idea so reversing it is nigh impossible now

[Rookiescot]

Thats it.

I am never touching non alcoholic beer again. 

[HolyCowCm]

For a guy with a PhD he sure isn’t sounding so smart. Sounds like he is trying to keep everyone down while him and his cronies go go up reaping the benefits.

 

[HolyCowCm]

1 hour ago, kanon64 said:

Non-alcoholic beer like Heineken Zero is already priced almost the same as Chiang and Leo! If you want people to drink less and drive safer: This is a major step backwards! Please think this over one or three times more!

Thinking would be the first step. 

[jobapps]

a while ago the government said they were reducing wine prices and other stuff to encourage foreigners. the only place ive actually seen reduce prices or offer a totally new price on wine is the 7 eleven. one50 baht reduction and two bottles using what appears to be french method of wine making with a 100 baht reduction.

The mall group might be selling those same wines but on no account european wines or australian ones seem reduced

lotus are still offering the same australian wines for the same price between 319 to 400 baht.

So whoever they attempted to do these trade deals with it was flat as pancake .. they wouldnt reduce tax in real terms. Prices will not really alter in lotus or big c or makro, so this artlicle is lame thaiger

[DiJoDavO]

2 hours ago, palooka said:

Pepsi and Coke next.  Make a lot more money.

How will they tax those? With the alcohol tax as well?

[Wanderer]

1 hour ago, Rookiescot said:

Thats it.

I am never touching non alcoholic beer again. 

In a few hours we might both be needing a drink. 

Signed, the pessimist prod. 

[Fortuner]

No no no next step alcohol tax on drinking water because water is used to make alcohol sounds really clever don’t you think so.5555

[gazmo16]

No wonder young Thais are drinking more,  they are trying to escape the reality of these old fools who govern them .

[Giltee]

An alcohol tax on a drink that has no alcohol just shows the IQ of those that think we’re stupid. The tax on beer isn’t to reduce consumption unless they price it off the market so no one can afford it. That’s just a crock of sh!t. All it does is give the government more money to waste. 

[Janneman]

Yea to protect the youth from getting used to drinking alcohol. What do they think? Thai youngsters are living a calm and peaceful life? No alcohol, no sex? Like monks? Oops sorry wrong example

But anyways, Thai youth will get their alcohol. If it gets too expensive they could brew it themselves. No risk as long as they dont start distilling it.

[longwood50]

5 hours ago, Thaiger said:

to help combat alcoholism

Yes, I am sure that is their sole motivation.  

Now just exactly how much more can be done to make an already expensive trip to visit Thailand more expensive. 

They must have gone to a different business school than I did.  I always learned that when prices go down you get more sales and when prices go up you get fewer.  So with Airline Tickets, Foreigner Pricing at Hotels, an approved taxi fare increase, a tourist entry tax and now an increase in alcohol tax just how many straws have you now placed on the camels back. 

That alcohol tax will have to be passed along to customers by the bars and restaurants that are already devastated by Covid.  And somehow the government thinks this will not do further damage to them. 

[yselmike]

17 minutes ago, Janneman said:

Yea to protect the youth from getting used to drinking alcohol. What do they think? Thai youngsters are living a calm and peaceful life? No alcohol, no sex? Like monks? Oops sorry wrong example

But anyways, Thai youth will get their alcohol. If it gets too expensive they could brew it themselves. No risk as long as they dont start distilling it.

Freewheeling Frankie said that "smoking weed and drinking beer is like pi**ing in the wind".

[Janneman]

3 hours ago, yselmike said:

Freewheeling Frankie said that "smoking weed and drinking beer is like pi**ing in the wind".

Yea but a famous Latin senator said "homo sapiens non urinat in ventum"

[riclag]

But it tastes the same! I think the creators of the tax are using the taste comparison for their latest revenue con imop

[Thommo]

11 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Not only is Thailand planning on increasing existing tax on all types of alcohol, but also plans on applying the alcohol tax to non-alcoholic beer, according to Director-General of the Revenue Department Ekniti Nitithanprapas. Ekniti said that the department will increase tax on all types of alcohol, in the fiscal year 2023, to help combat alcoholism among Thailand’s youth. More and more young Thais are drinking heavily, so the price hike aims to reduce alcohol consumption and improve overall health of the public, he said. The sincerity of Ekniti’s concern for the public’s health is questionable at best because he also […]

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The logic escapes me

[HiuMak]

11 hours ago, ThaiEyes said:

Sorry but this is almost the most idiotic thing I have heard, next to the stupid stamps they put on ginger beer

Root Beer too.

A&W has some foresight to close all stores in Thailand.

[Skip]

I would hate to see them tackle the real problem of teenage drinking... you know... like parenting... stores, restaurants, and bars  that sell to minors... schooling techniques

[palooka]

3 hours ago, Thommo said:

The logic escapes me

No such animal as logic in Thailand.

[Venusianhart]

When this happens there are two solutions. 

Go teetotal.

Go green -  embrace your legal cannabis alternatives

You don't need to smoke it, it's the least healthy and shortest effect ROA. But naturally, the TiT law outlaws most, if not all, of the alternative methods.  

 

But then again they also outlaw prostitution.