Mid Term Review: English

Indonesia Raids Google Offices

Hey, it's me back again with another task at hand, so this time I'll be writing about an article I read over at www.thejakartapost.com. The original article is linked up top as the heading and this will only be my thoughts and a short summary of it.

So, this article is about how the Google office in Jakarta is refusing a tax audit. The article says that Google itself has refused the tax audit, but has paid all applicable tax in Indonesia. There it also says that Indonesia's president is trying to make Internet companies pay more taxes in order to cover some loss.

From me, I suppose I can't really add any more to this, because I'm not really that knowledgeable in laws concerning taxes. But I do have to agree with the article of the fact that internet companies need to pay more tax, because their revenue is already so much, from ads. But, the ads do mostly advertise in-country companies such as Lazada, Tokopedia or other internet companies from Indonesia. This doesn't affect much of my opinion to Indonesia, it doesn't make me feel more akin towards it, or against it. But, it seems to show that the government might not be as friendly to outside internet companies than to other in-house companies. As far as I have looked around, the government also, don't seem to have any particularly specific laws for internet companies (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

But this, might show that Indonesia's companies will be more digital in the future since it seems like it's the way to go. This will also push Indonesia to a more digital era, and hopefully better help the people to be more modern. I, as a student, don't really know what to do, I the only thing I can do is to support local internet business in the hopes that in the future, we can be a more modern society.

notes; A tax audit is an examination of your tax return by the IRS to verify that your income and deductions are accurate. A tax audit is when the IRS decides to examine your tax return a little more closely and verify that your income and deductions are accurate.