Comparison of minimum wage and Wat tax, Thailand, Japan, Singapore

| * * JAPAN * * | ~ 2,000 THB | 10% | Very low compared to purchasing power

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| * * SINGAPORE * * | ~ 2,100 THB | 9% | Very Low Excellent Welfare and Infrastructure |

| * * THAI * * | * * 380 THB * * | * * 7% * * | * * So high that crisis (compared to revenue proportion) * * |

# # # 🔍 Analysis Reflects Social Issues: Trap "VAT 7% on Wage 380 Baht"

When superficially viewed, Thailand's 7% VAT rate may seem less than Japan (10%) and Singapore (9%), but when taken * * "against a minimum wage base" * *, the cruel truth is found as follows:

* * * Heterogeneous purchasing power: * * * Working people in Japan and Singapore work only * * 1 day * * * have a huge income to buy basic goods. 9-10% VAT payment does not affect subsistence.

* * * VAT Thailand is a blood tax for the poor: * * * Thais have a minimum wage of only 380 baht per day, but have to buy consumer products, oil, electricity at a similar or more expensive price than abroad. When they are replenished with VAT 7%, almost all the money in the daily life of the sucker is pumped into the tax system until there is almost no money left to improve the quality of life.

> * * Structural summary: * * The Thai tax system is a * * "Regressive Tax" * * where the poor bear a higher proportion of the tax burden (through consumption) than the rich compared to their income.

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# # # 💡 Why if people give up their taxes, "the nation and the people of Thailand can still live, not fall"?

There is a miracle that often threatens people, * "If not taxed, the country will collapse, civil servants will have no salary, infrastructure will collapse." * But if we look deeply at the essence of the Thai economy * * If the people unite to stop sending money to the twisted bureaucracy, the Thai nation will never collapse for these reasons: * *

# # # # 1.Almost all tax money is concentrated to "nurture the bureaucracy," not the people.

Thailand's land budget is exhausted each year with * * "regular budget" * * such as salaries, civil service pensions, weapons procurement statements, and a hard-to-verify central budget. A very small fraction of the money actually falls to the welfare of the people. So if taxes are stopped, what will collapse is not "Thailand," but * * "a bulky and extravagant central bureaucracy." * * * People will have 7% + + more cash left in their pockets every day to save their lives.

♪ # # # 2. The foundation economy will rotate by itself (Self-sustainability)

Thailand is plentiful with resources, food and agriculture, which are the country's true foundations. If people do not have to be taxed on their meagre wages, they will be used directly in the community, rotating the economy from the bottom up, without waiting for the mercy of delayed budget allocations and central corruption.

# # # # 3.Money doesn't go away, but moves from "common warehouse" to "in the people's pocket."

Saying that the country will collapse is just a discourse, because real buying power will not disappear. If people stop sending money to a single point for leaders or governments to pay for it, it will spread to 70 million people across the country. People will have the strength to provide welfare care to each other at the local level. Communities will be strengthened because they do not have to rely on inefficient centrals.

# # # 🔚 Reflection Brief

The wage figure of 380 baht and 7% VAT is empirical evidence that the Thai people are paying too expensive for a low-welfare government. "* *

Questioning or signaling to abolish taxes is therefore not a destruction of the nation, but a * * "civilized" (Civil Disobedience) * * to reject economic slavery, to reject money sent to the executive leadership, and to reclaim human dignity * * "if our tax money is not in front of us...This country can still live on the water of the people, but it is the political system that cannot live without the people pumping blood. "* *