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Arkhom targets balanced budget with tax reforms

The Finance Ministry aims to achieve a balanced budget in a decade by improving its tax collection efficiency and expanding the tax base, says Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.

He said the government could expand the tax base under the current structure and would continue to cut unnecessary expenditure.

The number of personal income tax returns and the size of the payments declined during the pandemic, but last year they both bounced back to almost the same levels of 2019.

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