Judul: Design of Taxes Early Warning System (TEWS) and Tax Revenue Model in Indonesia: The Application of Business Cycle Analysis and Taxes Revenue Performance Evaluation.
Abstrak: Currently, the mechanism of tax revenue allocation is still being distributed by top down mechanism, in which the distribution pattern is in the form of targets approved by DPR (House of Representatives) even though the initial draft comes from the government. Therefore, the national tax revenue forecast is not effective and needs a more comprehensive model to improve the tax planning This research is conducted to identify the environment turbulence which will affect economic fluctuation by using business cycle method. The behavior of this economic fluctuation will surely influence the fluctuation of tax revenue. The objective of this research is to identify this economic fluctuation by designing a model of early warning system which is called the Taxes Early Warning System (TEWS) and tax revenue modeling in Indonesia. In addition, this research will also examine the effects of these environmental shocks to the national tax revenue fluctuation in all tax offices in Indonesia. The research is conducted using monthly time series data and also applying two indicators : Income Tax and Value Added Tax. The result of this research is divided into four main topics. One of the important outcomes of this research, based on business cycles analysis, is the Taxes Early Warning System (TEWS) model. The best performance of Income Tax composite leading index is performed by Stepwise Regression model which consists of 14 particular components. While the best performance for the composite leading index of Value Added Tax is shown by Best Subset Regression model which consists of 9 particular components. From the VAR analysis result by Income Tax modeling series, it is known that there are 3 indicators having complete pass-through degrees more than one (complete pass through), which are hotel occupancy rate, money supply and fuel consumption. Meanwhile through the Value Added Tax series, the indicator shows the incomplete pass through degree. From the FEVD analysis result, both short term and long term, the external shock variability cannot explain the fluctuation of tax revenue as a benchmark series. The panel data analysis is used to examine the effects of economic fluctuation on 31 Kanwil DJP all over Indonesia and the results show that the fluctuation variable of TEWS gives positive effect to the tax income performance at Kanwil Khusus, Kanwil WP Besar 1 and 2, Kanwil Jakarta Selatan and Kanwil Jakarta Pusat. By using tax revenue modeling, it is known that within observing period, the surplus of income tax and value added tax has occured. The surplus proves that tax revenue projection until now is still being defined by top down policy pattern. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that there are five important variables which can influence the tax revenue performance, there are fuel consumptions, fuel price, domestic inflation, money supply and exchange rate. On the other hand, none of those variables are in the DGT authorization. In this case, DGT just only can anticipate the effects of the fluctuation of economic variable upon the tax revenue. To support the implementation of TEWS application, it has been designed the alternative strategy as an alternative
Keyword: Pajak Penghasilan (PPh), Pajak Pertambahan Nilai (PPN), siklus bisnis, shock, sistem peringatan dini, Taxes Early Warning System (TEWS), Penerimaan pajak, Series acuan, Derajat pass-through

Judul: Analisis Perbandingan Sistem Pajak di Indonesia dengan Australia dalam Perspektif Ekonomi Politik
Abstrak: Tax plays an important role as a source to finance the development of the country, although if the tax ratio and the number of individual taxpayers in Indonesia are compared with other countries, the tax revenue in Indonesia is not optimal yet. This research aims to know about factor that can increase the number of individual taxpayers in Indonesia comparison to Australia. Furthermore the connection between tax system, democracy, and rent-seeking activity; also the effect to tax revenue are analysed. The method is Panel Data Analysis in 15 countries of G-20 include Indonesia and Australia. Data used in this research are tax revenue as percentage of GDP, Democracy Index, Paying Taxes Ranking, and International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) Index from 2008 until 2011. The best model is Fixed Effect Model with cross section weights and white cross section. The estimation shows that a good tax system, full democracies, and the absent of rent-seeking have a significant and positive effect to tax revenue.
Keyword: Panel Data, Rent-Seeking, Democracy, Tax system

Judul: Karakteristik Carboxymethyl Chitosan Dengan Variasi Konsentrasi NaOH
Abstrak: Carboxymethyl chitosan is chitosan derivative product obtained from chemical modification. CMCh were made by alkalization process and carboxymethylation process. Factors that affect CMCh characteristics were excess sodium hydroxide in alkalization process, ratio between chitosan and monochloroacetic acid, and carboxymethylation temperature. The objectives of this research were to study the NaOH effect to CMCh characteristics, to learn process of making CMCh, to set the proper concentration of NaOH, and to analyze CMCh characteristics. CMCh yields were 110.72%-114.22%. CMCh pH value were 3.74-4.31. The optimum NaOH concentration to obtain the best CHCh was 10 M. Percentage of CMCh moisture content was 10.70%-11.42%. Ash content and nitrogen content of CMCh were 0.49%-0.50% and 4.52%-4.81%. CMCh viscousity was 8.25 cps. Percentage of CMCh solubility was 61.61%-91.50%. The different functional groups from chitosan which observed in CMCh were C=O group, CH group from alkene functional group, C−O group, and C−O−C group.
Keyword: solubility., functional group, CMCh characteristics, chitosan, carboxymethyl chitosan