Indonesia seeks to boost 2022 revenues with new taxes

FILE PHOTO: An elementary school student wearing a face mask has her temperature checked before attending a classroom session, as schools reopen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

JAKARTA: Indonesia's government proposed to parliament on Thursday a shakeup in tax policy, including introducing new levies, to help it boost next year's revenues while reducing the budget deficit, the country's finance minister said.

While the proposal brought up at parliament's plenary meeting lacked details, it was still met with objections from several lawmakers who warned against hiking tax when the economy had not fully recovered from the coronavirus pandemic.