In Reply to: Fiskal so expensive now posted by bigbrother on Thursday, 4. March 2010 at 23:09 Bali Time:
it was also 1 million 15 years ago, when 1 million was a year's income for many Indonesians. Like most things in Indonesia they don't do gradual price hikes or indexed taxation. They put it up as it is supposed to be a 'replacement' for income tax and needed to bring it line with income. At the time they also said they would abolish it once the current tax reforms were in place.