The Treasury warns about sharing information on 78 trillion baht public debt, misrepresenting Comp.



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Director of the Office of Debt Management Warning to people who share information about Thailand’s “public debt” worth 78 trillion baht at risk of being reported as a crime. Computer Law

On November 28, 2020, the “Prachachat Business” reporter reported that according to the pictures and the news that Thailand’s public debt at the end of September 2020 reached 78 trillion baht.

Ms. Patricia Mongkhonwanich, Director of the Office of Public Debt Management, would like to clarify that the content of the news is not true, since at the end of September 2020, public debt totaled 7.8 trillion baht, with the ratio of public debt to mass product. The national total (GDP) is 49.34 percent.

It comprises public debt of 6.73 trillion baht, debt of state-owned companies of 795.980 million baht, and debt of state-owned companies in the financial sector. (Government guarantees) of 309.472 million baht and government debt of 7.821 million baht, the debt that is directly in the budget amounted to 6.27 trillion baht, or 39.40 percent of GDP.

For debt that is not a burden on the budget State companies and government agencies will be responsible for paying the debt. With sources of income other than the budget to pay off the debt

The Director of the Office of Public Debt Management urges people to have confidence that the Ministry of Finance manages public debt carefully and carefully. Within the framework of strict fiscal discipline The estimate of the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product in 2021 remains within fiscal discipline. That is defined no more than 60 percent

In this sense, the intention to import, disseminate or transmit false information, in whole or in part. Or false information entering the computer system It may be a crime under the Computer Crime Act.



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