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According to IRS Publication 15-B, Employer's Tax Guide on route to Fringe Benefits (February 2007), qualified benefits for a cafeteria plan include: • Accident and healthfulness benefits, excluding long-term care insurance • Care assistance for dependents • Assistance adopting a child • Health bank account accounts • Group term object liability insurance (including that small amount cause which costs cannot be excluded minus wages because it exceeds the surprise set ultramodern OURSELVES. R. C. § 79) A cafeteria work out beforehand cannot include the fakery benefits, among others: • Long-term care insurance • Archer medical savings accounts • Employee discounts • Transportation (commuting) benefits • Athletic facilities • Training reduction or Educational office or Scholarships • Moving forfeiture reimbursements<\p>

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ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 throughout my perspective.

Over four decades since ASEAN was initiatived by five original members which had a vision to establish good cooperations between its members. There were many discussion and forum conducted to bring the vision closer. From those kind of discussions, we obtained many ideas and action plans. The nearest action plan is ASEAN Economic Community 2015, so-called AEC 2015. The objective of AEC 2015 is to create a single market and production base, turning the diversity that characterises the region into opportunities for business complementation making the ASEAN a more dynamic and stronger segment of the global supply chain.

According to Peter Lloyd and Penny Smith definition, single market means a geographical area in which the ‘Law of One Price’ applies, that is, there should be a single price throughtout the regional market for every tradable commodity and factor of production, after adjustment is made for transport cost. For the law of one price to be realised, not only border barriers be removed but so too any other sources of discrimination (including those introduced by national taxation system) between domestic goods, investors, and labour and those coming from other parts of the region. Realisation of a single market thus defined would require the harmonization of national tax price, competition principles, and product standards. In other words our market have to be well-integrated. Futhermore an integrated market potentially will growth GDP regional by 10 per cent and cut down cost of manufacturing regional about 10-20 per cent.

In the Ninth ASEAN Summit Bali 2003, according to the implementation of AEC 2015, ASEAN members formulated these following poins: free flow of goods, service, investment and a free flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduce poverty and socio-economic dispaties in year 2015. We can say ASEAN members must reduce the Common External Tariff (CET) between 0-5 per cent. However all we’ve known that zero CET cause a different set of problems, namely, it would deprive member states of tariff revenue, a significant source of government income for the least development economies, especially Cambodia. But the good news is all members in ASEAN can reduce 99.8 per cent CET of common goods in “Inclusion List” in 2010. Notwithstanding it was late by far from the schedule.

 The current problem right now is the share of trade of intra-ASEAN is much lower of arround 70 per cent than EU-ASEAN. It means that each members not yet intensively trade with intra-ASEAN members. We also known that ASEAN didn’t have a “Super Economic” members like EU did. And we cannot compared with them, because ASEAN diplomacy and cooperation have been characterized by caution, pragmatism and consensus-based decision-making. It’s called “ASEAN Way”. So, as the agent of change i hope we can conclude our ASEAN Ways, and better prepare for the AEC 2015.

                                                                                                              Adimas Prasetyaaji

Read these following paper for better understanding:

Ravenhill, J., 2007, Fighting irrelevence: An economic community ‘with ASEAN characteristics’, Canberra: National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in Publication entry.

Simon, S., 2008, ASEAN and Multilateralism: The Long, Bumpy Road to Community, Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 30, No. 2 (2008), pp. 264-92. ISEAS.

Hill, H., Menon, J., 2010, ASEAN Economic Integration: Features, Fulfillments, Failures and The Future, Asian Development Bank.

Soesastro, H., Accelerating ASEAN Economic Integration: Moving beyond AFTA, Presented at The Second ASEAN Leadership Forum, Kuala Lumpur March 17th, 2005.

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