The controversy about a 1,000-baht departure tax on outbound Thais and foreign residents is only a legally obliged opinion survey and the tax will not be imposed, the Revenue Department said.
Winit Wisetsuwannaphum, deputy director-general of the department, said on Sunday that the department did not plan to impose the departure tax of 1,000 baht for outbound flights and 500 baht for exit by land or sea for Thais and foreign residents.
He referred to a 1983 executive decree concerning the departure tax.
Mr Winit said although a ministerial regulation has waived the departure tax since 1991, the…
