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Thailand 2024 fiscal budget to be ready in early May – deputy Finance Minister

2023.12.20 03:01


© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Cargo ships are pictured near the port in Bangkok, Thailand, March 25, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo/

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s budget of 3.48 trillion baht ($99.74 billion) for the 2024 fiscal year is expected to be ready in early May, a deputy finance minister said on Wednesday.

The spending budget has been delayed from the original Oct. 1 start date, due to an election in May and a long period under a caretaker government.

Julapun Amornvivat told reporters that since there would be no government budget until early May, the country needed economic stimulus at the beginning of the year.

He said a planned tax deduction of up to 50,000 baht for buyers of certain goods and services between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 should increase spending by 70 billion baht, adding 0.18 percentage point to economic growth.

In October, the finance ministry predicted economic growth of 3.2% in 2024, but it has yet to price in the effect of the government’s flagship “digital wallet” handout scheme.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, a real estate tycoon and political newcomer, has said the economy is in “crisis”.

Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy grew a slower-than- expected 1.5% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace this year, on weak exports and government spending.

($1 = 34.89 baht)

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