Hey, me again.

Need to update you gals on the tax & fiscal issue (according to my friend):
- we do not need to pay tax in indo as long as we do not apply for NPWP. As we are not tax resident of indo (stay less than 183 days there and do not remit our income back to indo), we should not subject to indo tax)
- fiscal in balai has been implemented (we are no longer exempted from fiscal payment). but i heard the implementation has been pushed back for half a month till 15th jan.
- fiscal tax payment: i heard we (indo working in foreign country and tax resident in foreign country) will be exempted from fiscal if we can produce the documents below:
1. change address in our last page of passport (should tally with our PR address) - this can be done in indo embassy
2. PR
3. tax resident status cert from IRAS (this is optional, unless they asked for it)

Refer to few articles below:
http://www.kbrisingapura.com/immigration_cit_perubahan.php?lang=eng
http://www.antara.co.id/arc/2009/1/3/penumpang-ke-singapura-turun-75-persen/
http://www.pajak.go.id/dmdocuments/per%2053%20%20PJ%20%202008.pdf

so it seems that what we need to do now is to change the address and get the form from iras. i think we hold for the change of add first and at most pay the fiscal when we go back on CNY. coz i'm still not very sure what s the implication of the changing of add. so to play safe, we should hold first.

as for the tax resident status in iras, i think no harm applying for it. sure they will give it to us. i ll figure out how and let u know. Sus, if you are still on leave on mon and have time, pls help too...

clover