{"id":8696,"date":"2024-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/thailands-national-assembly-to-debate-introducing-casinos-on-march-28\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:00:00","slug":"thailands-national-assembly-to-debate-introducing-casinos-on-march-28","status":"publish","type":"asia","link":"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/en\/asia\/thailands-national-assembly-to-debate-introducing-casinos-on-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s National Assembly to debate introducing casinos on March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Thailand&rsquo;s National Assembly will discuss the potential casino bill&nbsp;in the lower house on March 28 with the bold ambition to take on Macau and Japan with a minimum investment of US$3bn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/thailands-national-assembly-to-debate-introducing-casinos-on-march-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" name=\"Imagen 1\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat said: <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><em>&ldquo;The bill has been drafted and submitted to the House. The next step will depend on the House&rsquo;s decision. If the House approves it, I&rsquo;ll pass it on to the Cabinet to deliberate and the final decision will depend on the Cabinet.&rdquo;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> There is expected to be strong bilateral support on the parliamentary floor for the gaming bill.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/assets\/international\/thailands-national-assembly-to-debate-introducing-casinos-on-march-282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" name=\"Imagen 3\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The House of Representatives has already recomended that casino complexes should be built with no more than five per cent of the floor space dedicated to gaming in up to five locations with Bangkok, Pattaya, Rayong, Phuket, Krabi, and Phang Nga all suggested as ideal locations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundovideo.com.co\/asia\/thai-authorities-failed-in-their-try-to-size-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><span lang=\"en-US\">Thai authorities failed in their try to size illegal gambling<\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">An initial casino in the Greater Bangkok area<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">, along with gaming floors in seaside southern regions could generate at least $11bn in taxes if tax was set at 30 per cent. However, the proposal is for a 17 per cent casino tax in line with Singapore to attract foreign investors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Royal Thai Police has said that access to casinos should be restricted with age, financial status as well nationality should be used as criteria for allowing access to legalised casinos. They also put forward that casinos should be developed away from communities and educational institutions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initial casino in the Greater Bangkok area, along with gaming floors in seaside southern regions could generate at least $11bn in taxes if tax was set at 30 per cent .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8697,"menu_order":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2357,1465,4516,4515],"class_list":{"0":"post-8696","1":"asia","2":"type-asia","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-bangkok","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-national-assembly","10":"tag-thailand","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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