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Major tax evaders tightly monitored: Govt
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Upbeat -- President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (left) makes a remark during a discussion on the tax amnesty program in Surabaya, East Java, on July 15. (Antara Photo/M Risyal Hidayat)
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axation Director General Ken Dwijugiasteadi has said the government is tightly monitoring large-scale tax evaders to ensure their participation in the tax amnesty program.
He said the Directorate General of Taxation had listed major taxpayers at its regional offices and had set up a task force to ensure their participation in the program.
"We are monitoring them day-to-day," Ken said in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Earlier, the government reiterated that its tax amnesty program was aimed at rich Indonesian people who hold undeclared assets overseas.
"What we want to target are those who have assets parked overseas," Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution said in Jakarta on Monday.
He made the statement to calm public fears that the government was targeting the undeclared assets of small and medium taxpayers in the tax amnesty program.
Darmin said the tax amnesty applied to all taxpayers. However, he said, the government had never designed the tax amnesty program to target small taxpayers. The program was directed at big tax evaders who had massive assets overseas but never declared them in Indonesia. (ebf)
