Out of Steam at Home Stretch

The tax amnesty's results fell way below target, indicating that a number of tax reforms have failed. Indonesia may not be able to take full advantage of global information transparency.

April 11, 2017

SPEAKING to members of her tax reform team, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati expressed her concerns over tax bureaucracy. She complained about the poor performance of tax officers, who often lacked determination and were sometimes insensitive. "I was the finance minister 10 years ago. Why does it seem like nothing has changed?" she said, as quoted last week by Yustinus Prastowo, executive director of the Center for Indonesian Tax Analysis (CI

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