Guidelines for handling the issues related to the land and building taxes imposed on the housing development projects : a case study of land and houses public company limited
Abstract:
Lands and buildings in the housing estate are subjected to pay tax under the Land and Building Tax Act B.E 2562. The areas in the housing estate can be divided into salable areas and the public utility areas. Tax rate for the salable areas is explicitly specified by law. However, the study showed that public utility areas in the housing estate are defined differently which affecting tax collections. Therefore, the research endeavor aimed to study the problems related to the land and building tax collection and suggest possible solutions to the problems encountered by entrepreneurs concerning the mentioned obscurity. The results revealed that there is tax exemption on the land registered as public utility areas and taxes on salable areas. Salable areas that have not been transferred to the buyers fall under the utilization category called Other, tax rate starts from 0.3% of the appraisal value. However, the law does not specify tax collection on other properties provided for the residents of the housing estate as public utilities properties, causing tax being collected in different rates. It can be concluded that, first, different tax assessment determination of local authorities resulting taxpayers became disoriented. Second, each project requires different construction duration but the law provides tax discount for the first three years after the Permission is granted. Lastly, the housing estate patterns granted by previously enforced Land Allocation law are different from those granted by the law recently enforced causing different tax assessment on the same types of the areas.