The Finance Ministry has signalled it may introduce a tax on gold. MTS Gold (Mae Thong Suk) says it will meet Finance Minister Ekniti this week (25-28 Aug) to oppose it, arguing Singapore and Hong Kong exempt gold and that Thailand scrapped its gold tax in 1998. No tax rate or start date is given in the article. For gold shops and gold-related traders, this is a cost and competitiveness risk to watch, not yet a change to act on.