{"id":235793,"date":"2026-01-16T04:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235793\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T04:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:47:16","slug":"indonesia-cracks-down-on-industrial-tax-cheats-as-fiscal-deficit-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235793\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia cracks down on industrial tax cheats as fiscal deficit widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Finance minister points at Chinese-backed steel and construction material companies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260114 Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Indonesian\u00a0Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa vows to crack down on tax underreporting, avoidance and evasion. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>ISMI DAMAYANTI<\/p>\n<p>January 15, 2026 18:36 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">JAKARTA &#8212; Indonesia&#8217;s main anti-graft agency and the finance ministry have begun cracking down on corporate tax underreporting, targeting industries from palm oil to steel as the government tackles a revenue shortfall that last year caused the fiscal deficit to widen to near the legal limit and simultaneously looks to lift spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Finance minister points at Chinese-backed steel and construction material companies Indonesian\u00a0Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa vows to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,139411,40181,20134,219,37078,5696,1404,111,139,69,7496,36298],"class_list":["post-235793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cheats","tag-cracks","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-fiscal","tag-indonesia","tag-industrial","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tax","tag-widens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}