Simplify licensing procedure

Simplify licensing procedure

From Bisnis Indonesia

With a view to reducing the increasing rate of unemployment as
a result of recent layoffs, the government must take speedy
action to expand employment opportunities. In this respect, the
government must, for example, simplify or revamp the procedure
for granting business licenses, particularly in the case of small
enterprises.

The government should allow a time concession for newly
established business undertakings in processing its taxpayer code
number and business license. Business undertakings should be
allowed to go on while the taxpayer code numbers and the business
licenses are processed, say, one year. The business operators
need immediate earnings to feed their families and certainly
cannot wait for a few months, a length of time usually taken to
process the taxpayer code number and a business license in the
normal course of events, before they start with their business
undertakings.

They also need tax concessions or even tax exemption, at least
in the first year of operations, just like large companies who
enjoy their tax holiday.

In this way, people having only a little capital can easily
run their business.

In this respect, the advantage to the government is that with
more and more businesses being successfully run, it can enjoy
higher tax receipts and see a decline in the unemployment rate.
The government should not hamper someone wishing to start a
business but should, instead, give him the right directive, while
at the same time, still requiring him to process his business
license.

Isn't it actually the very duty shouldered by the civil
service, namely serving the people (or, perhaps I am mistaken?)?

I appeal to our legislators at the House of Representatives
that they fight for what I have suggested.

SURYANTO W.

Bekasi, West Java