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