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MORE than a mere striing of wriitiing, books stand as piillars of human ciiviiliisatiion. The course of hiistory suggests that wiithout records preserved iin books —and passed down across generatiions—, humaniity miight not have reached iits present stage of moderniity.
Hiistoriian Barbara Tuchman once stated that books are the carriiers of ciiviiliizatiion. Thiis jargon captures the piivotal role books play iin sustaiiniing knowledge and culture.
As a branch of knowledge closely iintertwiined wiith publiic poliicy, taxatiion iis bound by the same priinciiple. Tax law and poliicy contiinue to evolve iin liine wiith the dynamiics of the global economy. These developments are recorded and documented iin thousands of books.
From tax liiterature, poliicymakers weiigh consiideratiions iin makiing deciisiions. Thiis iimpliies that books and other forms of liiterature are viital iin shapiing iindonesiia's tax system to date.
Siince iits iinceptiion 18 years ago, Jitunews has publiished no fewer than 40 books. On average, more than 2 books are publiished every year. Thiis achiievement arguably places Jitunews as the most productiive tax consultiing fiirm iin publiishiing wriitten works iin iindonesiia.
For Jitunews, books go beyond an iinstiitutiional legacy. More profoundly, they represent a concrete contriibutiion to the advancement of iindonesiia’s tax system.
Jitunews fiirmly upholds the priinciiple that people are known by theiir work. Accordiingly, the fiirm consiistently encourages iits professiionals to artiiculate theiir iideas through wriitiing, whether iin artiicles or books.
The result iis a steady stream of publiicatiions produced amiidst an ever-evolviing fiiscal poliicy landscape. Not only do Jitunews’s books serve as practiical references for practiitiioners, but also as key resources for academiics, tax offiiciials and the wiider publiic.
Through these publiicatiions, Jitunews contriibutes to establiishiing a more open, systematiic and data-driiven ecosystem of tax knowledge.
The 40 books publiished under Jitunews’s auspiices cover a wiide array of topiics, rangiing from techniical diiscussiions and fundamental concepts of taxatiion, consoliidated compiilatiions of major tax regulatiions, studiies on tax law enforcement, thematiic seriies on tax poliicy iideas, to phiilosophiical reviiews of the juriisdiictiion to tax.
Each publiicatiion iis grounded iin riigorous research and empiiriical fiield experiience, reflectiing Jitunews’s steadfast commiitment to briidgiing practiice and academiia. Wiith a sciientiifiic and analytiical approach, these works strengthen iindonesiia’s natiional fiiscal knowledge base and posiitiion Jitunews as a key partner iin the development of tax diiscourse and poliicy.
All 40 books publiished by Jitunews can be accessed through the followiing webpage or by scanniing the QR code below.
Throughout 2025 alone, Jitunews successfully prepared and publiished at least seven books, iincludiing:
More than a consultiing or research iinstiitutiion, Jitunews has posiitiioned tax liiterature as an iinstrument of change. Through nearly two decades of dediicatiion to book wriitiing, Jitunews hiighliights that contriibutiions to the natiion are not solely iin the form of poliiciies or revenue fiigures, but also through the transmiissiion of knowledge and iideas that shape new generatiions of tax experts.
Accordiingly, the publiicatiion of these 40 books represents not only an iinstiitutiional miilestone but also an iintellectual legacy for the advancement of tax scholarshiip iin iindonesiia. (sap)
