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Multinational Firms’ Losses

and Profit Shifting Behavior

in Indonesia:

Some Comments:

B. Bawono Kristiaji* 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Corporate income tax is one of the
major tax revenue sources in Indonesia.
Up to January 2015, more than 4000
1. Background ............. 3
multinational corporations or firms that
their shareholders or ultimate owner are
2. Financial Loss
foreign entities (Penanaman Modal Asing/
in Business
PMA), suffered lossess. This situation Framwork ................ 3
made them did not pay their income tax.
3. Financial Loss
Some say this is happened because of the as Profit Shifting
macroeconomic downturn and business
Strategy ................... 4
environment, the others murmur about
the worries of behavior of profit shifting
4. What Should We
in undertaking. In this paper, tax and non-
Do? .......................... 7
tax motives of multinational firms’ losses
will be elaborated. Financial loss become
5. Conclusion ............... 9
the issue that will be described in business
framework, also will be framed as profit
shifting strategy.

Furthermore, how Government of
Indonesia (Directorate General of Taxes/
DGT) should react on those particular
issues? Should DGT have effective anti-
avoidance rules and improve their tax
administration system? Detail rules and
administration strategy will be beyond the
scope of this paper.

*B. Bawono Kristiaji is partner in Tax Research & Training Services,
DANNY DARUSSALAM Tax Center. He received his bachelor and master
degree in economics from University of Indonesia. He obtained his MSc in
international business taxation from Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
He holds Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) from The
Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), United Kingdom.

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