Indonesia Archive
Indonesia Cigarette Tax Reform Simplifies Taxes, But More Work Remains
February 2, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares More than 300 billion cigarettes are sold each year in Indonesia—making it the world’s second-largest cigarette market to China. As such, it is important how Indonesia taxes tobacco products. Last year, I wrote about the counterproductive complexity of the country’s tobacco tax system, but in December, Indonesia announced some positive changes to the
Indonesia Tobacco Tax Design: Indonesia Cigarette Tax
November 10, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Indonesia, the world’s second-largest cigarette market, has a uniquely complex system when it comes to taxing its tobacco consumption, which is almost exclusively cigarettes (98 percent). The country’s cigarette taxes are divided into no less than 10 rate tiers based on product type, volume, and price. These tiers are meant to protect smaller
Tax revenues in Asia and the Pacific hit by pre-COVID economic slowdown
July 27, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report on tax revenue statistics in selected Asian and Pacific countries. The report, covering 24 tax jurisdictions, provides tax revenue data from 1990 to 2019 and includes a section on nontax revenue data for selected Asian and Pacific economies. Additionally, a special feature co-authored
