Weekly Business
November 15, 2005
Controversial Coal Export Tax
ARGUMENTS between Minister of Finance Jusuf Anwar and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Aburizal Bakrie, on coal export tax are increasingly heating up. Jusuf turned down the recommendation approved by Aburizal that the new tax would be imposed if coal price in international markets reaches US$50 per ton. Until the end of time, coal price will not reach US$50, said Jusuf in his office last Friday. Why not just ad
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