Government Must See Data of Panama Papers, and Cancel the Tax Amnesty: PWYP

Jakarta, Aktual.com – Show ‘data revealed embezzers tax of Panama Papers, Joko Widodo government should make in order not to pass the draft bill insist Forgiveness Tax or Tax Amnesty.

Therefore, Fair Tax Forum (FPB) considers now entering the emergency tax crimes. To that end, they requested to the government to cancel a planned tax amnesty (tax amnesty) to rich the taxpayer.

“Because that steps would be cons-productive to efforts to optimize tax revenue,” said National Coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia, Maryati Abdullah, a member of the FPB, through a press release received on Friday (8/4).

Based on the data Coalition PWYP Indonesia, this country turned out to be at the 7th position of the countries that have the highest flow of illicit money in the world.

“In the span of 2003-2012, Indonesia was transferring funds amounting to Rp1.699 trillion or an average per year reached Rp167 trillion,” he said.

To that end, the same calculation method, PWYP Indonesia recorded a total of alleged illicit money flows in Indonesia in 2014 amounted Rp227,75 trillion, equivalent to 11.7% of the total APBN-P 2014.

And specifically in the mining sector, the value of the flow of illicit money is estimated at Rp23,89 trillion, where Rp21,33 trillion came from illegal trade transactions and Rp2,56 trillion came from illicit money.

“In the mid of the low tax ratio mining sector, reaching only 9.4% indicated still rampant practice of tax evasion and embezzlers in the mining sector,” said Maryati.

Entry Tax Amnesty also be referred to as a step backward enforcement of taxation and money laundering. Moreover, the tax amnesty will reduce the level of compliance of taxpayers to pay taxes.

“The existing, will weaken the tax amnesty ‘prestige’ government in the presence of rich people and corporations,” added Director of Society Initiative, Ah Maftuchan as the Coordinator of Fair Tax Forum.

In fact, he said, the tax amnesty that would hurt taxpayers or the small-to-medium salaried if the salary every monthly, which has been precisely dutifully pay taxes. “It has damaged justice,” denounces him.

Forum Taxes Fair consists of Society Initiative, ASPPUK, ICW (Indonesia Corruption Watch), IGJ (Indonesia for Global Justice), IHCS (Indonesian Human Rights Committee for Social Justice), ILR (Indonesian Legal Roundtable), PWYP Indonesia, YLKI (Foundation Consumer services Indonesia), INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development), and TI (Transparency International Indonesia).

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