Illegal Activity, Informal Activity And Underground Economy, Sri Mulyani Explains Will Coordinate With K/L

Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati revealed that for various illegal activities, informal activities and underground economy, her party will continue to coordinate with Ministries/Institutions (K/L) regarding future steps.

Sri Mulyani explained that the future steps from illegal activities with an underground economy or informal activity are certainly different.

According to Sri Mulyani, the underground economy is avoidant or avoids taxes and non-tax state revenues (PNBP). For this case, he together with the Deputy Minister of Finance Anggito and the PNBP tax team will continue to focus on mapping.

"If the underground economy is an avoid to audit or avoid taxes, then the mapping will be different. And this is what Mr. Anggito and the customs tax team and PNBP are currently doing," he said at a press conference at the Customs Office, Thursday, November 14.

In addition, Sri Mulyani explained that in the underground case of palm oil CPO, such as from the area of land, reporting, under-reporting or transfer pricing, her actions would be different.

Meanwhile, Sri Mulyani explained that in cases of illegal economic activity such as online gambling, her party would continue to coordinate with the Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Budi Gunawan.

Meanwhile, for cases of informal economic activity, namely activities with a much smaller scale, mapping and empowerment are needed.

Therefore, Sri Mulyani emphasized that her party will continue to identify and take action against these various economic activities so that their actions will be different.

"We will gradually map together with the relevant ministers and coordinate the Coordinating Ministers," he concluded.