http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/12/06/businesses-criticize-cooking-oil-vat-cut.html
印尼常制造一些税务漏洞，似乎有意无意闹粮食荒。
例如说现在的CPO出口税是0，但是国内的粮油却要给10%国内增值税（PPN/VAT)，如果我是供应商，我会把CPO出口到国外去。
这种现象也发生在马来西亚，2008年年头，因为本地包装粮油有政府津贴（较便宜），厂商把市面上的粮油囤积起来拿回去工厂做一些另外用途。
印尼的贸易部长说他们考虑撤销VAT。其实已经讲很久了，如果你说他们换了三届总统和三届部长却还在讲同样的话，我一点都不奇怪。我当然不知道他们讲了多久，因为最近我才开始关注这类的问题。
一些东马种植公司说印尼比东马占有优势，不知是何缘故。因为贸易的优劣是很少发生偏差的，尤其是发生在两大生产国之间。
我是根据资料找到目前的cooking oil VAT依然是10%的，或许现在已经撤销了，说错见谅。
Mustaqim Adamrah, , The Jakarta Post, , Jakarta | Sat, 12/06/2008 11:40 AM | Business
Businesses gave a cold response to a government plan to waive value-added tax (VAT) on up to 50,000 liters of unbranded packaged cooking oil each year, dismissing the amount as "too small" for the subsidy.
The amount eligible for the subsidy was peanuts compared to the 80 million liters of unbranded cooking oil used each month by households and industry, Indonesian Vegetable Oil Producers Association (Gimni) executive director Sahat Sinaga said on Friday.
"Ideally, the government should waive the VAT on 50,000 tons of unbranded cooking oil per month if it really wants to reduce burdens on the community," Sahat said.
The government plans to waive VAT on several categories of goods including unbranded packaged cooking oil, to help keep prices in check, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said recently.
At present, unbranded cooking oils sell for between Rp 9,000 (75 US cents) and Rp 10,000 per kilogram.
"*Packaged* unbranded cooking oils eligible for the VAT cut are sold at traditional markets for prices within consumers' reach," Mari told members of House Commission VI (which oversees industry, trade, state-owned enterprises, cooperatives and small and medium enterprises).
The government plans to phase out sales of unpackaged cooking oils, which it hopes to replace with packaged unbranded cooking oils, Trade Ministry domestic trade director general Subagyo said recently.
"In future, we hope, unbranded packaged cooking oils will be slightly more expensive than unbranded unpackaged cooking oils, but cheaper than branded cooking oils," Subagyo said.
The unbranded packaged cooking oils the government plans to promote would be labeled Minyak Goreng Sawit or MGS (palm oil for cooking), Subagyo added.
In a bid to stabilize cooking oil prices, Sahat said, state logistics firm Bulog was working with businesses to market unbranded packaged cooking oils.
MGS cooking oil would be sold in 500-milliliter, 1-liter, 5-liter and 18-liter packages, said Indonesian Cooking Oil Industry Association chairman Adiwisoko Kasman (also involved in the marketing venture).
"We are now processing licenses with BPOM *Food and Drug Food Monitoring Agency* and MUI *Indonesian Ulema Council*, prior to the launch scheduled for January 2009," Adiwisoko said.
