Registering and structuring a 100% foreign-owned BOI company in Thailand: the application, incentives, capital, and compliance.
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.
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.
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.
BOI, work-permit, and Foreign Business Act minimum capital are three separate rules. Here is what each one actually requires and how they compare.
BOI promotion pairs a corporate tax holiday with non-tax perks like land ownership and easier work permits. See how the incentives split by activity group and where the merit-based add-ons can win extra years.
How to register a company in Thailand: choosing a structure, the DBD name, memorandum, and filing steps, capital rules, post-registration tax and social security, and what a BOI promotion changes.
BOI sorts every promoted activity into a group, A1+ down to B. Here is what each group means for corporate tax, capital, and how to find where your activity fits.
A BOI company is a Thai limited company with a promotion certificate on top. Here is how it compares to a standard Thai Limited on ownership, tax, capital, and work permits, and which one you actually need.