Owners of 236 luxury cars ‘could face criminal action’
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DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang Monday gave an update on the probe into 548 reassembled luxury cars whose owners allegedly sort to evade paying tax.
The officials concluded that owners of eight such vehicles – all Mercedes Benz brands – had dodged tax payments worth Bt3 million. But that could be just the start.
DSI and Customs Department officials will meet soon to assess overdue taxes and fines linked to the criminal proceedings. This could result in a total tax bill reaching Bt12 million.
The move followed a DSI submission for the Customs Department to consider collecting extra tax under the Customs Tariffs Decree from the owners of 236 cars out of the 548 suspect vehicles worth Bt4 million and above, Paisit said.
So far, the Customs Department has reported that assessment results of tax due on the eight Benz cars totalled Bt3 million, he said.
But this figure applied only to the civil code, he said.
