A government spokesman reveals Seththa's order to accelerate education. A comprehensive entertainment venue or entertainment complex that is expected to collect taxes in the first year of at least $12 billion.
Mr. Chai Washarong, Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office revealed after the Cabinet (Cabinet) meeting that Mr. Sitha Thavisin, the Prime Minister, ordered in the Cabinet meeting to continue the operation of integrated entertainment venues. Also known as an entertainment complex, the Ministry of Finance commissioned Mr. Cholavan Amornevat, Deputy Minister of Finance, to conduct a detailed study. Accelerating the operation of comprehensive entertainment venues. In order to have guidelines for further action to be concrete.
Mr. Shai said that he also assigned the Ministry of Finance to draft a draft comprehensive entertainment law by taking the draft law which the Commissioner felt should include the views of the unit on relevant works in accordance with the Cabinet Resolution issued on April 9, 2024, while preparing a plan for issuing relevant secondary legislation and submitting it to The Council of Ministers will consider it at the next opportunity, in accordance with the procedures for proposing laws specified by the Constitution
Mr. Zhai also said that for entertainment complexes or integrated entertainment venues and has a great impact on the country's economy. Because the value of the global entertainment complexes business in 2022 will reach 1.5 trillion US dollars. Or the equivalent of 54 trillion baht. In addition, the economic value is expected to grow in 2028 to 2.2 trillion US dollars, which is approximately 79 trillion baht.
Currently, the country or special administrative region with the largest integrated entertainment business is Macau. Which has a population of 690 thousand people but its business amounts to 32 billion US dollars, equivalent to about 1.2 trillion baht, followed by Las Vegas with 30 billion US dollars, Singapore with 12 billion US dollars, South Korea with 320 billion US dollars, and the Philippines with 210 billion. , Vietnam 180 billion, Indonesia 180 billion, Thailand zero baht
A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office continued, saying: You can see that the Asian countries surrounding our country are much farther away from us. In addition, Japan is planning to build 3 more entertainment complexes soon, including Osaka, Nagasaki and Fukuoka, and Thailand should hurry up a bit if there is income from this.
“Thailand needs to hurry up a little. If you want to get additional income this way. The committee also made preliminary calculations that if there is an entertainment complex invested in Thailand there will be a huge influx of income. In the first year taxes will be collected at least 12 billion baht .