Auditor General Pisit Leelavachiropas poses with a anti-corruption superhero during a seminar in October 2016. (Bangkok Post file photo)The auditor-general has told the Revenue Department to collect more taxes from some 60 politicians in the previous two governments because what they paid did not match the increases in their declared wealth. Pisit Leelavachiropas said on Friday that the move was part of his policy to make tax collections fairer. "When I asked the Revenue Department whether they paid taxes on the increased amounts, they told me these politicians were not unusually rich. Mr Pisit did not elaborate on the amount of additional tax he believed might be due from the politicians, the additional income involved or higher valuations of additional declared assets.

Source: Bangkok Post March 17, 2017 12:00 UTC