Gov’t pays auditor incentives

VDB Loi Partner Clint O’Connell comments on the General Department of Taxation (GDT)’s incentive program that awards employees of the GDT a share of the penalties incurred by firms found to have unpaid tax accounts. Director General of the GDT, Kong Vibol confirmed yesterday that the GDT introduced the incentive program at the beginning of this year. The scheme grants government auditors 10 per cent of the total penalties imposed on any company, which that employee has reassessed and found to be non-compliant.