TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama will imprison anyone who intends to endanger Jakarta's business, including hotel, restaurant, and entertainment venue entrepreneurs who evades tax, reports said Monday, August 3, 2015.

Ahok say entrepreneurs are given the power to charge a 10 percent tax on customers. Those taxes are not to be stored by entrepreneurs, but to be paid to the provincial government of Jakarta.

“Hotels and restaurants that are unwilling to pay tax will be reported to the police and could possibly be foreclosed,” Ahok said at Tambora, West Jakarta on Sunday,Aug 2.

Tax evaders are no different from criminals, Ahok said. Meaning that a sanction needs to be given. If not sanctioned, entrepreneures will most definitely repeat their action.

Ahok gave example of a nightclub he had closed last year called the Stadium. According to Ahok, the owner ignored a ban regulation on drug deals occurring within the night club, and was forced to permanently shutdown the nightclub by revoking its permit.

Not only shutting it down, the owner of the nightclub made Ahok’s blacklist. The violator will not be able to submit any similar permits in the upcoming future, said Ahok.

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