House to recommend stopping tax office personnel`s remunerations

Antara News, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 20:08 WIB

Surabaya, East Java (ANTARA News) - The House of Representatives (DPR) Working Committee on Tax Affairs has decided to recommend the discontinuation of the remunerations so far being enjoyed by tax office personnel, a spokesman said.

"We have come to the conclusion that the payment of remunerations to tax office personnel must be stopped. This decision is final although we are still working on the matter," Abasanul Kosasih, deputy chairman of the House Commission XI on financial affairs, said here on Tuesday.

He said tax office personnel did not deserve the remunerations because many of them prove to be involved in tax mafia cases.

"The remunerations were intended as a reward for the tax office personnel`s professionalism. But it has now turned out tax mafia and corruption cases still continue to take place," Kosasih said on the sidelines of a hearing between Commission XI and members of the Directorate General of Taxation`s East Java office.

Kosasih said it was useless for the government to provide remunerations for tax officials because they proved to have such a bad mentality and to have behaved in such deplorable ways that corruption and tax crimes had continued to occur.

Commission XI had formed a working committee on tax affairs to deal with tax mafia cases at the directorate general of taxation.

"The working committee has the right to make recommendations to the finance minister, including recommendations on sanctions and reprimands. The working committee is the highest forum of Commission XJ," Kosasih said.