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Online tax to
improve efficiency
by Wichit Sirithaveeporn
The Revenue department hopes that by bringing tax payments online and investing in new IT
systems, it can improve the efficiency in collecting and monitoring payments by 5.5 million
companies nationwide.
Suparat Khawatkul, director-general of the Revenue Department, said audit
and examination was time-consuming under the current "paper-based" system. The new "'E-Revenue"
programme would allow officials to call up tax payment histories for different companies with just a click of a button.
A total of 1,500 teams nationwide would rely on 8,000 terminals under the
new system, which would be linked to the Commercial Registration Department and other databases.
Suri Buakhom, director of the Information Technology Office, said that within two years all
20,000 officials of the Revenue Department would have their own computer stations under a
300 million Baht programme.
The programme would bring 90% of all tax procedures online. Two thousand additional
terminals are scheduled to be installed this year.
Earlier this month, the Revenue Department announced a joint programme with local banks to
allow electronic tax payment and filing through the Internet and ATMs.
Bangkok
Post, January
13,
2001
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