Cempaka Business and Economy: Sri Mulyani Unveils Indonesia's New Tax, Customs Watchdog

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, March 26, 2010

Sri Mulyani Unveils Indonesia's New Tax, Customs Watchdog

Jakarta Globe, Dion Bisara, March 26, 2010

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stepped up her drive to reform the tax and customs directorates on Friday by inaugurating a new regulatory body called the Taxation Supervisory Committee.

“This committee should be the voice of taxpayers but also can help ensure the important role of taxation in contributing revenue to the state,” Sri Mulyani said in a speech after the inauguration ceremony.

“The committee needs to carry out a healthy supervisory function as well as checks and balances in anticipating emerging corruption in taxation.”

The TSC is independent of the Directorate General of Taxation and the Directorate General of Customs and will report directly to Sri Mulyani. Overseeing both bodies, the TSC will be responsible for confirming tax revenues and dealing with public complaints about tax officials. The establishment of the supervisory committee was mandated by the 2009 tax law.

The committee will be run by five officials, including Anwar Suprijadi, a reform-minded senior bureaucrat and former director general of customs who has been named the TSC’s first chairman.

Abdul Ansari Ritonga, the former director general of the state budget at the Ministry of Finance, has been named deputy chairman of the committee. The three other members are Hekinus Manao, the inspector general of the Finance Ministry, and two professors from the University of Indonesia, Sidharta Utama and Hikmahanto Juwana, both of whom are experts in tax issues.

Anwar told the Jakarta Globe that the committee would work to improve communication with the public, perhaps by setting up a telephone hotline to receive complaints about corrupt tax and customs officials. “Give our team some time to decide the exact mechanism,” he said.

Since taking over as finance minister, Sri Mulyani has made it one of her top priorities to reform the tax and customs directorates, which are widely considered to be hampered by corruption and red tape.

At a meeting with foreign investors on Thursday, Sri Mulyani said the government was serious about pushing for further reforms in the bureaucracy, particularly in the area of tax and customs, to help the country become more competitive internationally.

She explained that for the reform drive to succeed, the government must implement a system of punishments and rewards, develop the necessary technology and improve the welfare of civil servants to prevent them from being tempted into corruption.

Around 70 percent of the state’s revenue comes from taxation. In the proposed revision of the 2010 state budget, the government set a revenue target of Rp 733.38 trillion ($80.7 billion) for the tax directorate and customs directorate. The total state budget revenue target this year is Rp 973.16 trillion.

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