Thailand Cigarette Tax Scorecard and Need for Single Rate Reform
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Key Entities
Person
Phattharakit Netiniyom(ภัทรกิตติ์ เนตินิยม)
An independent academic and finance expert.
Schneider
A researcher who co-published a study in June 2026 regarding illegal cigarettes in Thailand.
Asllaniℹ️
A researcher who co-published a study in June 2026 regarding illegal cigarettes in Thailand.
Organization
Economics for Health
The entity at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that produced the Cigarette Tax Scorecard report.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthℹ️
The institution associated with Economics for Health.
The government agency that studied the tax structure and is awaiting academic opinions before proposing to the Ministry of Finance.
Budget Committee(คณะกรรมาธิการงบประมาณ)
The body to which the Director General of the Excise Department provided clarification in July.
The ministry to which the Excise Department will propose the tax structure study.
Fiscal Policy Office(สำนักงานเศรษฐกิจการคลัง)
An agency whose study on cigarette tax is cited as existing academic evidence.
An organization that provided recommendations on cigarette tax structure.
An organization that provided recommendations on cigarette tax structure.
An organization that provided recommendations on cigarette tax structure.
Place
A country mentioned as having a tax structure score that decreased, returning to a multi-tier specific tax in 2015.
A country in the group with the heaviest drop in tax structure scores.
A country in the group with the heaviest drop in tax structure scores.
A country in the group with the heaviest drop in tax structure scores.
An ASEAN country that ranked 3rd globally with a total score of 3.75 and abolished its multi-tier system during the 2012 Sin Tax reform.
One of the top two countries globally in the cigarette tax scorecard.
One of the top two countries globally in the cigarette tax scorecard.
An ASEAN country with a total score of 3.25 and a tax structure score of 4.
An ASEAN country with a total score of 3.13 and a tax structure score of 4.
An ASEAN country with a total score of 2.13 and a tax structure score of 1, currently reducing tax tiers from 19 to 8.
A country considering increasing the weight of specific taxes.
Policy
Sin Taxℹ️
The reform implemented by the Philippines in 2012 to abolish its multi-tier tax system.