A House budget committee member proposed pausing civil servant salary rises and rank adjustments for 1-2 years, cutting about 25,000 million baht from the central budget reserve (งบกลาง) for fiscal 2027. The proposal is not yet law and the committee majority view is expected to prevail in the vote. For a private SME this is background only: it signals tighter government spending during an economic crisis, and no change to your own payroll, tax or permits follows from it.