Taxpayers get a raw dealAlthough the government believes that a cut in the employees' contribution to the Social Security Fund (SSF) from 3% to 0.5% is a valuable assistance measure to this vast group of people who are excluded from the latest relief scheme, the measure is still unsubstantiated and unfair. Those employees are regular taxpayers who contribute to state coffers every year but it seems that they are being ignored by the government. Such an instruction is baffling given that government officials and state employees still enjoy full salary payments. What the government should do is give fair treatment to all affected groups of people, including affected state and state enterprise employees. As such, it should start paying due attention to the 11 million people who are honest taxpayers as well as a large number of SMEs that cannot access the government's relief schemes.

Source: Bangkok Post January 24, 2021 23:37 UTC