By Hanthar Hein - May 18, 2025

SAC’s Ministry of Labour announced on May 17 that overseas employment agencies holding licenses for the 2023–2024 fiscal year will face license cancellations and be placed on a blacklist if they fail to pay required taxes based on the number of workers they have deployed by country.

The ministry has specifically warned 28 licensed agencies that failure to pay by the end of this month will result in their names being blacklisted and their licenses revoked.

"Some have already paid their taxes among the agencies that received warnings. Others have been unable to do so due to inactivity, or because the families of deployed workers failed to send back the required 25% of remittance funds, which led to restrictions on further deployments," said a representative from one licensed agency.

All licensed agencies are required to pay taxes at local township tax offices for the 2023–2024 fiscal year based on the number of workers sent to each country. They were notified on June 7, 2024, to submit proof of payment by the end of August 2024.

Despite these prior notices, agencies that have yet to comply were sent a final warning on May 9, instructing them to settle their tax payments with the relevant township tax offices by May 31, 2025.

Failure to do so by that deadline will result in license cancellations and inclusion in the official blacklist, the ministry reaffirmed.