"To see if there are indeed royalty components or other tax obligations that have not been paid, I will check. If they have indeed not paid we will ask for its collection," he said after a coordinating meeting at his office here on Wednesday.
The minister however said he had not received yet official reports about it and all possibilities for imposing a fine or a penalty which may be done for the Blackberry producer are still being studied.
"I have not received the report. If there are indeed (unpaid taxes) they will be collected including the fines and penalties," he said.
The ministry of communications and information estimates the net revenue of Research in Motion in Indonesia reaches Rp2.268 trillion a year.
"With collection reaching an average of US$7 per person per month RIM is able to book a net income of Rp189 billion a month or Rp2.268 trillion a year," the ministry`s expert staff for communications and mass media, Henry Subiakto, said.
He said until now RIM had not paid even a cent of tax to the Indonesian government.
The company had not also built network infrastructure of any kind in the country because the networks it has used so far all belong to six telecommunications operators in the country.
The ministry of communications and information deemed it necessary to give a warning to RIM with regard to it, moreover the office has recorded there are around three million people in Indonesia that subscribe to RIM (Blackberry) including two million official subscribers and one million "blackmarket" subscribers.
(Uu.H-YH/HAJM/A014/P003)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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