<![CDATA[In four years, Indonesia has changed the de minimis threshold twice. This study aims to describe on how merchants react to tax regulations, especially international trade taxes, when conducting cross-border e-commerce transactions. By using administrative data on imported documents for shipments for the period 2017-2020, which includes the application period of the three de minimis thresholds of USD 100, USD 75 and USD 3, this study found that in each application period of the De -Minimis a bunching behavior gave threshold for exemption from import duties and taxes related to imports. This study also finds a similar phenomenon at the threshold of low-value shipments around the $1,500 value, where merchants are bunching to use simplified declarations and flat-rate pricing with faster procedures and lower costs.]]>
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