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Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on Wednesday that he plans to use the government’s central emergency fund to provide more economic mitigation measures in the second half of this year.

The Finance Ministry will this month borrow THB30 billion from certain commercial banks to boost liquidity of the Oil Fuel Fund, a senior ministry official said on Tuesday.

The Finance Ministry on Tuesday denied it is hiding a public debt worth 1 trillion baht, saying this amount was used as advance payments for subsidy programmes under the Fiscal Disciplines Act.

The Finance Ministry is looking into whether it should launch a fifth phase of the government’s co-payment subsidy scheme to help cushion the impact of Covid-19 on consumers, the ministry’s permanent secretary Krisada Chinavicharana said on Friday.

A low birth rate in the coming years could affect Thailand's financial stability because of the increasing number of senior citizens, the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) under the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.

A move by the Bank of Thailand (BOT), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Finance Ministry to ban the use of cryptocurrencies for purchasing products and services is aimed at preventing negative impacts on financial stability and the economy.

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a Finance Ministry proposal to borrow another THB700 billion to tackle the impact of Covid-19. This is in addition to the previous THB1-trillion loan.

Experts say an extra bt2 per cigarette packet won’t resolve budget challenges of universal scheme

THE FINANCE Ministry has managed to prevent a mass demonstration by the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) and the networks for patients with 17 chronic diseases by postponing the enforcement of its new and controversial budgetary regulation on the hiring of off-budget workers.

The Finance Ministry will propose to the Cabinet tomorrow that it approve a special tax incentive for year-end shoppers, a source from the ministry said late on Monday.