Your reporter Somroutai Sapsomboon did an excellent analysis on heavily tilted wealth in land owned by Yingluck&rsquo;s cabinet members. Now I know the proposal of then finance minister Korn Chartikavanij to reform the current 80-year-old land tax by taxing unused land more heavily would never see the light of day. 
	Songdej Praditsmanont 
	Bangkok

Land tax reforms seem doomed, sadly

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