INSTEAD of boosting the national income, the tax department may have become a liability. Recently, Seaunion Ltd. filed a lawsuit against the Tax Office for Foreign Citizens located in Kalibata, South Jakarta. Seaunion, an American-based oil drilling corporation managing oilfields in Limau-Niru, South Sumatra, has filed its lawsuit with the Jakarta Administrative Court.

The firm is refusing to pay US$5.2 million (plus interest amounting to a