TAX
A Hard Habit to Break
The DPR is pushing for the cigarette tax to be legalized. The government, however, is still unwilling.
September 23, 2008
IWAN Setiawandi is still worried. Discussions on the cigarette tax were apparently not completed last week. This was despite the fact that this should have been the main item on the agenda at a closed meeting of the Special Committee for the Regional Taxes and Retributions State Decree at the Santika Hotel, Jakarta, on Thursday last week. "It was a waste of time coming to this meeting," said this Head of Planning and Development from the Jakarta Ca
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