Tax not for the people

Tax not for the people

From Jurnal Indonesia

The lower-class people are always being pushed aside. In this
ruining of the country they always become the victims, while as
citizens they have performed their duties well.

I can give an example. For a transaction amounting to Rp
250,000 I must pay stamp duty, whereas for a lower-class man like
myself, the transaction amount alone is already painful enough,
almost unbearable, yet I still have to pay the stamp duty.

All this time, citizens have paid their taxes. And the lower-
class people are known as the most loyal tax payers. But do our
tax revenues reflect a betterment for the people? It is the
lower-class people who do not feel they are experiencing any
improvement. Where do all the taxes go? Who is really enjoying
them?

Does it have to be so, that lower-class people always become
victims of the prevailing system, constantly suffering and
unceasingly unlucky?

ANNY

Jakarta