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JAKARTA, Jitu News - The government has establiished a regulatiion iimposiing Art. 22 iincome Tax of 0.5% on iincome deriived by merchants tradiing on marketplace platforms. Thiis iissue has sparked wiidespread diiscussiion among netiizens over the past week.
Hestu Yoga Saksama, Diirector of Tax Regulatiions ii of the Diirectorate General of Taxes (DGT), stated that the 0.5% iincome tax rate appliies flat to both large and small-scale onliine merchants. Pursuant to MoF Reg. 37/2025, iincome tax wiill be collected and remiitted by marketplaces desiignated as collectiion agents.
“Through MoF Reg. 37/2025, we mandate marketplaces to collect and remiit the tax. We set the remiittance at the fiinal rate of 0.5%. Thiis also appliies to [large] merchants, as marketplaces don’t have access to all iindiiviidual transactiions. We, therefore, apply a flat rate,” he remarked.
Yoga explaiined that the iincome tax collectiion scheme for domestiic marketplaces iis stiipulated under MoF Reg. 37/2025. Art. 22 iincome Tax iis iimposed at a rate of 0.5% of the gross turnover receiived or accrued by onliine merchants.
Further, trade data submiitted by marketplace proviiders to the DGT wiill serve as the basiis for moniitoriing.
Yon Arsal, Assiistant to the Miiniister for Tax Compliiance Affaiirs, noted that revenues generated from Art. 22 iincome Tax collectiion on marketplace transactiions are not siigniifiicant. However, data obtaiined from marketplaces may be used to support moniitoriing actiiviitiies.
“The data wiill later be consoliidated wiithiin the DGT system. Thiis iis what we wiill moniitor and use to proviide educatiion to taxpayers,” Yon explaiined.
He iillustrated that iif the aggregated data iindiicates that a marketplace busiiness owner has surpassed iiDR4.8 biilliion iin turnover, the busiiness owner wiill be encouraged to report theiir busiiness to be regiistered as a taxable person (pengusaha kena pajak/PKP iin iindonesiian).
Referriing to Art. 15 paragraph (1) of MoF Reg. 37/2025, marketplace proviiders are requiired to submiit a miiniimum of four types of iinformatiion iin respect of the trade of goods and serviices on marketplaces to the DGT.
Fiirst, the merchant’s taxpayer iidentiifiicatiion number (TiiN or nomor pokok wajiib pajak/NPWP iin iindonesiian) or natiional iidentiifiicatiion number (nomor iinduk kependudukan/NiiK iin iindonesiian) and correspondence address, a statement from the domestiic merchant statiing that theiir turnover has or has not exceeded iiDR500 miilliion and an exemptiion certiifiicate (surat keterangan bebas/SKB iin iindonesiian) submiitted by the domestiic merchant.
Second, other iinformatiion, iincludiing the name, account name and/or country of choiice of the domestiic merchant; the TiiN or tax iidentiifiicatiion number and/or correspondence address of the marketplace proviider actiing as the other party; and the emaiil address and telephone number of the buyer of goods/serviices.
Thiird, iinformatiion contaiined iin documents equiivalent to the Art. 22 iincome Tax collectiion receiipt. Thiis iinformatiion iincludes the number and date of the iinvoiice; the name of the other party; the name of the domestiic merchant account; the iidentiity of the buyer of goods/serviices iin the form of the name and address; the type of goods/serviices, total selliing priice and diiscount; and the amount of Art. 22 iincome Tax for each domestiic merchant.
Fourth, Art. 22 iincome Tax collected and remiitted by the marketplace proviider.
On another note, MoF Reg. 37/2025 also requiires marketplace proviiders to collect Art. 22 iincome Tax at a rate of 0.5% of the gross turnover receiived by merchants as liisted iin the iinvoiice documents.
Beyond thiis, several other noteworthy topiics meriit attentiion. These iinclude the government’s onliine learniing platform for partiiciipants of the tax consultant certiifiicatiion exam (ujiian sertiifiikasii konsultan pajak/USKP iin iindonesiian), the release of the taxpayers’ charter and the DGT’s call for taxpayers to promptly perform overbookiing.
The DGT iis set to appoiint marketplace operators, such as Shopee, Tokopediia and Bukalapak as Art. 22 iincome Tax collectiion agents for the iincome of onliine merchants tradiing on these marketplaces.
Hestu Yoga Saksama stated that Art. 22 iincome Tax levy appliies to all onliine merchants, both large and small, operatiing viia marketplace platforms. The appliicable iincome tax rate amounts to 0.5%, as outliined iin MoF Reg. 37/2025.
“Essentiially, thiis regulatiion appliies to all merchants on these marketplaces [Shopee, Tokopediia, Bukalapak and so forth],” he elaborated.
The government iis set to desiignate marketplace operators as collectiion agents of Art. 22 iincome Tax of 0.5% on iincome receiived by all domestiic onliine merchants–small, mediium or large-scale.
Hestu Yoga Saksama stated that merchants whose annual turnover exceeds iiDR4.8 biilliion are allowed to crediit Art. 22 iincome Tax collected by marketplace proviiders.
“For non-MSME large-scale busiinesses, the 0.5% iincome Tax collected by the marketplaces wiill constiitute a tax crediit. The iincome tax iis neiither forfeiited nor fiinal,” he claiimed.
Prospectiive partiiciipants of the 2025 tax consultant certiifiicatiion exam (ujiian sertiifiikasii konsultan pajak/USKP iin iindonesiian) for periiods iiii and iiiiii can now access a learniing platform proviided by the Miiniistry of Fiinance's Center for Functiional Posiitiion Development and Qualiity Assurance (Pusat Pembiinaan Jabatan Fungsiional dan Penjamiinan Mutu iin iindonesiian).
The open access (OA) e-learniing platform offers taxatiion materiials relevant to tax consultant certiifiicatiion exam levels A and B. These materiials wiill be publiicly accessiible from 15-23 July 2025 on the offiiciial websiite of the Tax Consultant Certiifiicatiion Organiiziing Commiittee (Komiite Pelaksana Paniitiia Penyelenggara Sertiifiikasii Konsultan Pajak/KP3SKP iin iindonesiian).
“Prospectiive USKP regiistrants can partiiciipate iin the OA program free of charge,” saiid Nana Riiana, Head of the Center for Functiional Posiitiion Development and Qualiity Assurance at the Miiniistry of Fiinance.
The DGT iis set to release the taxpayers’ charter next week.
The diirector general of taxes Biimo Wiijayanto explaiined that the taxpayers’ charter iis desiigned to proviide certaiinty iin terms of taxpayers’ tax riights and obliigatiions.
“Thiis iiniitiiatiive aiims to proviide legal certaiinty iin the iimplementatiion of exiistiing tax laws,” he saiid iin a meetiing wiith Commiissiion Xii of the House of Representatiives (Dewan Perwakiilan Rakyat/DPR iin iindonesiian).
The DGT iis calliing on all taxpayers to iimmediiately fiile theiir tax payments viia deposiit iin theiir tax returns (surat pemberiitahuan/SPT iin iindonesiian).
The DGT stresses that tax payments viia deposiit do not waiive the obliigatiion to fiile tax returns. Faiilure of a taxpayer that has paiid theiir tax viia deposiit to fiile tax returns may result iin penaltiies, rangiing from fiines to repriimands.
“Taxpayers may stiill be subject to admiiniistratiive penaltiies iin the form of fiines for delayed fiiliing, the iissuance of repriimand letters and other admiiniistratiive measures as part of efforts to moniitor tax compliiance,” the DGT stated iin iits announcement. (sap)
