The Finance Minister of Indonesia has confirmed their plan to introduce value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce. In order to implement this plan, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has been asked to prepare regulations to tax online shopping at the 10 percent VAT rate.
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