Jokowi's Push for 2016 Tax Amnesty Plan Kick-Off Seen as Flawed
- Indonesia had originally planned to implement amnesty in 2015
- OECD: Amnesty will be harmful for long-term compliance
Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Jokowi, as the president is known, is under pressure to increase government spending on public works and boost faltering growth, which languished below 5 percent for much of his first year in office.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s government will start 2016 trying to get lawmakers to approve the country’s fourth tax amnesty since independence, a plan it says will lure back money stashed overseas to net an extra $4.4 billion of revenue this year.
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