A few days ago during a visit to the death of the mother of college friend, whose living in America with her husband who was blond and have long settled in San Francisco.
Returned to Indonesia with her husband to visit her sick mother, but not long after that her mother passed away. Her mother left with smiling faces and glowing skin ... Hopefully her mistakes can be forgiven, her sins are forgiven, and welcomed back into the presence of the Almighty. Everything comes from Him and will return to Him .. Amen.
She originally wanted to retire and live in Indonesia, her homeland. When she saw what had happened to her mother in the hospital, made her think back to spent the old days here. According to the life of all regular and guaranteed there, is very different from here. Then for the purpose of convenience, we chatted casually.
From this casual conversation is raised the subject of the tax collected by the state. Although she have been settled there and only a few times a year to visit parents and relatives here, she always followed the development of her country, so know that here the government began to emphasize to the ownership NPWP (the number of taxpayers subject) to each citizen. About this tax she proposed a very simple question, "Did you know that tax money is used by the government for what?" And she seems to think taxpayers here are too stupid or naive because they do not know much tax is used for what.
Where the tax money?
In San Francisco any tax paid by the taxpayer to the government will return to the taxpayer again later on when he retired. So the tax paid by the taxpayer was only a kind of no-interest loans for the government to run the wheels of government. That is why the residents there have a sense to pay taxes.
Taxpayers starting in the second year will receive financial reports from the IRS, which contains among other things how much money has been deposited and how much benefits will be received at the time the taxpayer retired every month, as well as important also reported that tax money have been deposited is used for what. So the transparency of taxation there is very clear. And because it is a kind of loan to the government so that taxpayers can influence public policy by the government.
While in here, the tax was still a kind of tribute--like in the colonial era--which must be deposited by the people to the ruler. The results of the tax was never returned to us, it was considered return in physical form, such as for road improvements. While in San Francisco was not a tax return in the form of road repairs or something, but eventually will return to taxpayers in the same form that has been deposited, that is, as annuities when retirement or when we suddenly had no job, aka unemployed.
Depart from San Francisco, this experience helps us all, including the government began to clean themselves, especially in matters of taxation. In order for any society to know the benefits of paying taxes so has awareness of paying taxes so that people feel not only as a mere cash cow as long as it is felt by the taxpayers.
| February 8, 2010 | samidirijono | architect |
Returned to Indonesia with her husband to visit her sick mother, but not long after that her mother passed away. Her mother left with smiling faces and glowing skin ... Hopefully her mistakes can be forgiven, her sins are forgiven, and welcomed back into the presence of the Almighty. Everything comes from Him and will return to Him .. Amen.
She originally wanted to retire and live in Indonesia, her homeland. When she saw what had happened to her mother in the hospital, made her think back to spent the old days here. According to the life of all regular and guaranteed there, is very different from here. Then for the purpose of convenience, we chatted casually.
From this casual conversation is raised the subject of the tax collected by the state. Although she have been settled there and only a few times a year to visit parents and relatives here, she always followed the development of her country, so know that here the government began to emphasize to the ownership NPWP (the number of taxpayers subject) to each citizen. About this tax she proposed a very simple question, "Did you know that tax money is used by the government for what?" And she seems to think taxpayers here are too stupid or naive because they do not know much tax is used for what.
Where the tax money?
In San Francisco any tax paid by the taxpayer to the government will return to the taxpayer again later on when he retired. So the tax paid by the taxpayer was only a kind of no-interest loans for the government to run the wheels of government. That is why the residents there have a sense to pay taxes.
Taxpayers starting in the second year will receive financial reports from the IRS, which contains among other things how much money has been deposited and how much benefits will be received at the time the taxpayer retired every month, as well as important also reported that tax money have been deposited is used for what. So the transparency of taxation there is very clear. And because it is a kind of loan to the government so that taxpayers can influence public policy by the government.
While in here, the tax was still a kind of tribute--like in the colonial era--which must be deposited by the people to the ruler. The results of the tax was never returned to us, it was considered return in physical form, such as for road improvements. While in San Francisco was not a tax return in the form of road repairs or something, but eventually will return to taxpayers in the same form that has been deposited, that is, as annuities when retirement or when we suddenly had no job, aka unemployed.
Depart from San Francisco, this experience helps us all, including the government began to clean themselves, especially in matters of taxation. In order for any society to know the benefits of paying taxes so has awareness of paying taxes so that people feel not only as a mere cash cow as long as it is felt by the taxpayers.
| February 8, 2010 | samidirijono | architect |
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