BANGKOK: The Customs Department is considering the tax liabilities Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production must pay after the Council of State decided oil transported for use on its rigs located farther than 12 nautical miles offshore should be counted as a domestic purchase. The department is calculating how much tax will be retrieved from the petroleum explorer as Chevron claimed tax refunds during two periods — between March 2011 and March 2014, and February 2015 and October 2016, said Kulit Sombatsiri, director-general of the department.
Chevron purchased oil and transported it to its petroleum rigs, located on a continental shelf that is farther than 12 nautical miles from the coast. It claimed a refund of excise duties worth 3 billion baht from Customs, which took responsibility for collecting tax instead of the Excise Department, claiming such transactions were considered exports.
