Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu [size:14pt]He said the slowness in the increase in the number of individual tax payers was due to the fact that the directorate general of taxes had not yet provided maximum service to the people while the people`s desire to pay taxes was still low. i have this overwhelming desire to pay tax.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The number of individual tax payers in Indonesia increased by only 200,000 to 300,000 a year during the past five years, the country`s top tax official said. "In addition, only about 33 percent to 34 percent of them pay their taxes regularly," Darmin Nasution, director general of taxes, told media editors here on Tuesday night.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was confident that the investment climate in Indonesia would ameliorate as the government has worked hard to improve its services to foreign investors who wished to sink their capital in the country. The head of state made the remark in his welcome speech at a function launching a book entitled The Report: Emerging Indonesia 2007, here Wednesday.

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government will monitor the development of cooking oil price before increasing the export duty on crude palm oil (CPO) export duty. CPO and cooking oil producers are regarded as not yet having been optimum in terms of market operations. “If (the ideal cooking oil price) isn't reached, we'll certainly implement (the export duty increase0” said Boediono, Coordinating Minister for the Economy, in Jakarta yesterday (5/6).