TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mitsuhiro Furusawa, fully supports Sri Mulyani’s goal to raise Indonesia’s tax ratio up to 16 percent from its current ratio of 11 percent.
“I think it’s a very ambitious target but I hope you can achieve that. There are various options and IMF fully supports your effort," said Furusawa on Wednesday, July 12.
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Finance Minister Sri Mulyani says that she would work her hardest in order to achieve the goal.
“Even the IMF said that it’s impossible to raise 5 percent in two years. But I want to let everyone at the Tax directorate general understand that we are far from what we expected,” she said.
Through the reform team that was recently formed, state officials are struggling to increase the tax ratio without burdening the economy as a whole.
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Other than a tax administrative process reform, state officials will be able to collect taxes without having to raise tax rates that has burdened the general public.
The reform team will focus on fixing the business process and our Information and technology (IT) system, “It will improve our extensification,” she said.
ANGELINA ANJAR SAWITRI
