THAILAND : -- Thai Customs Department has removed a notice put up at the Suvarnabhumi airport's arrival terminal requiring inbound passengers to declare their personal effects for taxation.
According to the notice, gifts which were bought for friends, relatives or bosses are not regarded as personal effects and must also be taxed.
The same also applies to brand name products such as handbags or wristwatches worth more than 10,000 baht are subjected to taxation.
The new measure was to prevent merchants from exploiting the rule regarding personal effects to smuggle brand name and foreign products into the country.
Those who fail to declare the high-priced personal effects while going through customs checkpoints will risk facing heavy fine of up to four times of the price or jail term of up to 10 years if they get caught.
Formally the notice was previously put up for outbound passengers but it was only three weeks ago that such notice was also put up at the arrival terminal for inbound passengers.
It was the policy of the former customs chief, reporter said. The notice has caused concern among the people,so he ordered that it be removed.
Mr Somchai Sujjapongse, the new director general of the Customs Department, made clear that the notice which was causing concern among inbound passengers has been removed.
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