来自我们团队的法律动态、实务指引与专业见解——聚焦在泰国开展业务的企业所关注的重要议题。
You have won your arbitration. The tribunal has ruled in your favour and issued the award. The instinct is to treat the dispute as over. In Thailand, it is not. An award is a right, not yet a remedy, and the steps you take in the months that follow decide whether that right turns into money in the bank.
The 21 July session, chaired by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, was quieter than the two before it: no migrant-workforce rescue, no ministry restructuring. Its weight sits in three places: a draft Royal Decree doubling the tax deduction for supporting the Social Enterprise Promotion Fund, a land-use amendment for two Chiang Mai districts, and the follow-through machinery for the fifteen Thailand-China agreements signed during the Prime Minister's visit.
If you employ registered Lao, Myanmar, or Vietnamese workers, the 14 July Cabinet moved to save a large part of your workforce. Some 562,068 workers could not complete passports and visas by the 31 July B.E. 2569 (2026) deadline and were weeks from losing status. The Cabinet approved a framework letting every worker registered under the 11 November B.E. 2568 (2025) resolution renew to work until 11 December B.E. 2570 (2027), with renewal applications due by 11 December 2026.
A new blacklisting ground for state contractors, a permanent footing for the nominee crackdown, and the Sadao border crossing moves this week. Plus the July deadlines already in force.
Every business in Thailand now uses artificial intelligence and software, whether to draft documents, serve customers, analyse data, or build products. The legal questions that follow are practical and immediate: who owns what the AI produces, whether you may feed your data or someone else's content into it, what happens to your confidential information, and who pays when the technology gets something wrong.
If you are closing a Thai home or condominium purchase right now, start here: the reduced property transfer and mortgage fees lapsed on 30 June B.E. 2569 (2026). As of today, the full 2 percent transfer fee and 1 percent mortgage fee are back, and they stay back until the renewed scheme is published in the Royal Gazette.
If your business employs foreign nationals, runs hotels or serviced apartments, imports or exports goods (especially to the United States), sells price-sensitive consumer products, or holds a rail concession, the Thai Cabinet's session of 23 June B.E. 2569 (2026), chaired by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, is worth a scan. Five developments to review, and what is and is not yet in force.
For foreigners who want to live in Thailand without the recurring paperwork of an annual retirement or business visa, and without meeting investment or income tests, the Thailand Privilege Visa remains the most straightforward route. It is, in essence, a paid membership that comes bundled with a long-stay visa and a concierge service.
Patents in Thailand are governed by the Patent Act B.E. 2522 (1979), as amended up to B.E. 2542 (1999), and administered by the Department of Intellectual Property (DIP). A long-awaited amendment, to streamline examination and join the Hague system for designs, is under parliamentary consideration but is not yet law. The rules below are those currently in force.