REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said the government hopes to raise revenues in taxes regardless of tax amnesty by intensifying tax collections.

"Approved or disapproved (tax amnesty bill) we would step up tax collection," Bambang said here on Monday.

He said tax amnesty policy is only an instrument for capital repatriation into the country to increase tax revenue.

He acknowledged that tax revenues fell short of expectation until April 2016, but he said he was not worried as the deficit in the state budget is still under control.