House to finish deliberating tax
amnesty bill in June: Lawmaker
Erika
Anindita Dewi
The Jakarta
Post
Jakarta | Thu, June 2 2016 | 01:03
pm
The House of Representatives is set to complete the
deliberation of the tax amnesty bill and pass it into a law in the middle of
June, a lawmaker has said.
House Commission
XI overseeing finance and banking chairman Ahmadi Noor Supit said it was expected that the tax amnesty draft law could be
passed into law in a plenary meeting set for June 16.
"I'm certain
we can finish deliberating the bill. We're striving to create one voice. In the end, it all depends on the government's
readiness," the Golkar Party lawmaker told journalists on Wednesday.
The House's working unit deliberating the bill has been
synchronizing the controversial bill with a government team in closed meetings
for two weeks.
However, the deliberation of the bill itself is still in the
preliminary stage, in which the House lawmakers discuss the bill’s key
points, which are divided into several clusters.
The House has
said it is still waiting for the government's explanation on several issues,
such as on the implementation of several articles and the preparedness of
investment instruments that would accept asset repatriations.
The government has high hopes for the repatriations.
Finance Minister
Bambang S. Brodjonegoro previously targeted government earnings of Rp 180
trillion ( US$13.16 billion ) from repatriations if the bill was passed. The
Finance Ministry recorded 6,519 Indonesia citizens living abroad.
Speaking
separately, House Deputy Speaker Agus Hermanto,
however, said that the amount of funds collected with the passing of the bill
remained unknown
.
"We must
have certainty on the impacts, human rights protections, and all good
governance-related aspects from the tax amnesty implementation," said the
Democratic Party politician.
The House failed to meet its initial target of passing
the bill into a law in its previous sitting session, which ended on April 29.
Supit said Commission XI would start working on the
revised 2016 state budget next week. Deliberations on the tax amnesty
bill will be completed prior to the revised state budget, he added.
In the tax
amnesty bill, the government offers tax breaks to individuals and compan
ies who
declare their untaxed wealth.
Separately, the
government plans to revise the state budget to a more realistic figure,
including its tax revenue target.
For the 2016 state
budget, the total tax revenue target is currently set at Rp 1.36 quadrillion,
or 28.2 percent higher than the Rp 1.06 quadrillion achieved in 2015. ( ebf )
ANALYSIS OF TENSES
1
. The House of Representatives is set to
complete the deliberation of the tax amnesty bill and pass it into a law in the
middle of June ( simple past tense )
2
. said
it was expected that the tax amnesty draft law could be passed into law in a
plenary meeting set for June 16. ( Simple
future tense )
3 . In the end,
it all depends on the government's readiness," the Golkar Party lawmaker
told journalists on Wednesday ( simple past tense )
4 . The House's
working unit deliberating the bill has been synchronizing the controversial
bill with a government team in closed meetings for two weeks.
( simple past tense
)
5 . the
deliberation of the bill itself is still in the preliminary stage (present
perfect tense )
6 . The
government has high hopes for the repatriations ( past future tense )
7 . House Deputy Speaker Agus Hermanto, however, said that
the amount of funds collected with the passing of the bill remained unknown (
present prefect tense )
8 .
The House failed to meet its initial
target of passing the bill into a law in its previous sitting session, which ended on April 29 ( simple past tense )
9.
Supit said Commission XI would
start working on the revised 2016 state budget next week ( simple past tense )
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