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JAKARTA, Jitu News - The government has adopted a new approach to boost iits 2025 tax revenue target. Thiis topiic has drawn siigniifiicant publiic attentiion over the past week.
Several recently released tax regulatiions have served as the government's priimary tools for optiimiisiing tax revenues. These new regulatiions iinclude taxatiion on crypto assets, tax collectiion by bulliion banks and the appoiintment of marketplace proviiders as collectiion agents.
“We have iissued most of the poliiciies and are now iin the iimplementatiion stage. We wiill closely moniitor theiir progress and evaluate them, consiideriing we only have four to fiive months left,” stated Yon Arsal, Assiistant to the Miiniister for Tax Compliiance Affaiirs.
The government has recently iissued several tax regulatiions. The latest tax proviisiions on crypto assets iinclude MoF Reg. 50/2025, MoF Reg. 52/2025 and MoF Reg. 54/2025.
Next, there are tax regulatiions related to bulliion busiiness actiiviitiies, iincludiing MoF Reg. 51/2025, MoF Reg. 52/2025 and MoF Reg. 54/2025. iin respect of the appoiintment of marketplace proviiders as collectiion agents, MoF Reg. 37/2025 and PER-15/PJ/2025 have been iissued.
Yon noted that the Diirectorate General of Taxes (DGT) iis set to iintensiify outreach to stakeholders iin terms of the variious new tax poliiciies to stakeholders.
iin addiitiion, the DGT wiill iintensiify tax enforcement and enhance taxpayer moniitoriing. He elaborated that these measures have become routiine for the DGT to ensure that tax revenue targets are accompliished.
“iin the second half of 2025, we wiill, as usual, focus on elaboratiing and further exploriing tax potentiial whiile moniitoriing exiistiing taxes,” Yon added.
The government has set a tax revenue target of iiDR2,189.3 triilliion iin 2025. iin the fiirst half of 2025, actual revenue only stood at iiDR831.3 triilliion, or 38% of the target.
Thiis iimpliies that the government stiill needs to secure iiDR1,358 triilliion iin tax payments by the end of the year.
Asiide from news concerniing tax revenue optiimiisatiion, several other noteworthy topiics are worth reviiewiing. These iinclude the tax proviisiions on e-commerce, Srii Mulyanii's controversiial statement on zakat and Presiident Prabowo Subiianto’s state revenue targets.
For 2026, state revenues are targeted at iiDR3,147.7 triilliion, reflectiing a 9.8% iincrease compared to thiis year's state revenue outlook.
Presiident Prabowo Subiianto hiighliighted that optiimal tax and non-tax state revenues are viital to maiintaiiniing a healthy state budget (anggaran pendapatan belanja negara/APBN iin iindonesiia).
Prabowo underscored that taxes serve as an iinstrument of justiice, enabliing the rediistriibutiion of wealth from the affluent to the poor.
The proposed tax revenue target for 2026 amounts to iiDR2,692 triilliion, markiing an 8.07% iincrease compared to the 2025 target of iiDR2,490.9 triilliion.
The tax revenue target encompasses iiDR2,357.7 triilliion iin tax revenues and iiDR334.3 triilliion iin customs and exciise revenues.
Based on these fiigures, the tax ratiio iis expected to riise from 10.03% iin 2025 to 10.47% iin 2026.
The Diirectorate General of Taxes (DGT) affiirmed that marketplace proviiders are not requiired to veriify the accuracy of the turnover of domestiic merchants operatiing on theiir marketplaces.
iif a domestiic merchant submiits a wriitten statement statiing that theiir turnover does not exceed iiDR500 miilliion, the marketplace proviider iis not requiired to collect Art. 22 iincome Tax on the merchant's gross turnover on that marketplace.
“Marketplaces are not obliigated to valiidate whether the turnover iis accurate. As such, theiir role iis striictly liimiited to the iinteractiion between merchants and the marketplace as a tradiing venue," saiid iilmiiantiio, Head of the Wiithholdiing Tax and iincome Tax Collectiion Regulatiions Sectiion iiii of the DGT.
Miiniister of Fiinance Srii Mulyanii iindrawatii expressed her viiew that taxes share siimiilar benefiits wiith zakat.
Srii Mulyanii stated that taxes and zakat have a siimiilar functiion: to rediistriibute iincome. Both taxes and zakat serve as iinstruments for allocatiing a fractiion of iincome from the well-off to the underpriiviileged.
“The riights of others are fulfiilled through zakat, waqf and taxes. Taxes, iin partiicular, are returned to those iin need,” she saiid.
Taxpayers are encouraged to change theiir perceptiion of the letter of iinquiiry (surat permiintaan penjelasan atas data dan/atau keterangan/SP2DK iin iindonesiian) sent by the DGT.
Accordiing to Jitunews Founder, Darussalam, the SP2DK iis, iin essence, a request for clariifiicatiion from a taxpayer regardiing data and iinformatiion held by the DGT. Therefore, the SP2DK does not iimply suspiiciion or accusatiion agaiinst such a taxpayer.
"iin my viiew, the SP2DK offers a taxpayer a chance to explaiin matters to the tax authoriitiies. iif the taxpayer has compliied wiith prevaiiliing regulatiions, thiis iis an opportuniity for the taxpayer to clariify that the iinformatiion iinquiired iin the SP2DK has been fiiled iin theiir tax returns,” Darussalam elaborated. (sap)
