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Prisna Sungwanna Supattra Sathapornnanon The Thai Board of Investment (BOI) administers the Investment Promotion Act (1977) under which projects are granted investment incentives, guarantees, and rights to own land. These are important factors in securing project financing. The BOI announced a Seven-Year Investment Promotion Strategy (2015 to 2021) following the issue of Announcement No 2/2557 on December 3 2014, which repeals eight past announcements. It includes a new list of activities eligible for promotion, which has a number of changes from former lists. It prescribes new activity-based incentives and merit-based incentives. Activity-based incentives are divided into Group A and Group B, as indicated in the new list. Group A activities receive corporate income tax incentives, machinery and raw materials import duty incentive,s and other non-tax incentives. Group A is divided into four subgroups. Group B activities receive only machinery and raw material import duty incentives and other non-tax incentives. Group B is divided into two subgroups.

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