How EV and Green Energy Businesses Get Thailand’s Best BOI Incentives
If you’re building anything in electric vehicles or clean energy, Thailand wants you, and the BOI hands out its deepest incentives to prove it.
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Does Your Software or Digital Business Qualify for BOI Promotion?
If you run a software business, Thailand’s BOI is about as friendly as company setup gets for a foreigner. There’s no factory to build, no container of machinery to import, and no heavy capital to park in a bank.
What Manufacturers Actually Get from BOI Promotion in Thailand
Manufacturing is where BOI started, and it’s still where the incentives run deepest. If you’re bringing machinery into Thailand, buying raw materials to turn into finished goods, and you need land to put a factory on, a BOI promotion touche…
Can a Foreigner Own Land in Thailand? How BOI Land Rights Work
Foreigners can’t own land in Thailand. That’s the blunt version, and for most people it’s true. But there are a few legal exceptions, and if you’re setting up a business here, one of them runs straight through the BOI.
Thailand’s Foreign-Income Tax Rule: What It Means If You Get BOI Promotion
Since 2024, money you bring into Thailand from abroad can be taxed here. If you’re setting up a BOI company or planning to live in Thailand on an LTR visa, this rule reaches your personal finances in a way your corporate tax holiday does no…
How BOI Import Duty Exemptions Cut Your Machinery and Material Costs
Everyone talks about the BOI corporate tax holiday. Fewer people realize that the same certificate can wipe out the import duties on your machinery and your production materials, and for a business that brings a lot in from overseas, that s…
How BOI Companies Get Work Permits Without the Thai Employee Quota
If you want to work in your own Thai company, the rule that trips up almost everyone is the staff quota: four Thai employees on payroll for every foreigner who holds a work permit, plus THB2,000,000 of paid-up capital behind each one.
How to Apply for BOI Promotion (and How Long It Really Takes)
BOI approval runs on fixed working-day windows by project size, but acceptance deadlines, the certificate application, and setup steps add real months on top. Here is the full sequence, deadline by deadline.
What You Have to Do Each Year to Keep Your BOI Status
A BOI promotion certificate comes with ongoing duties: e-Monitoring progress reports every February and July, a 36-month deadline to start full operations, an audited e-Tax filing to claim the corporate tax exemption, and activity-specific conditions that must be met before benefits apply.
What to Do If Your BOI Application Gets Rejected
A BOI application rejection usually comes down to a fixable problem: the wrong activity, a weak plan, or a capital shortfall. Here is why applications fail, whether you can resubmit, and the alternatives if BOI is not available.