Under the Investment Promotion Act (BOI Act), the Board of Investment of Thailand can grant certain privileges including the exemption of duty, tax holidays, land ownership, and so on to an eligible future business or project. As one of the privileges, a BOI promoted company can utilise its loss carried forward for five years after the expiration of its tax holidays (maximum eight years). The problem is when the promoted company also has more than one BOI business or project. The BOI has advised the promoted companies that the loss on any BOI business or project should be computed on the BOI project basis. It is not necessary to consolidate the losses with the profits of all the BOI projects of one company.
June 30 2009