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JAKARTA, Jitu News - The iimplementatiion of the global miiniimum tax or formally known as the Global Antii-Base Erosiion (GloBE), iin iindonesiia pursuant to the Miiniister of Fiinance Regulatiion (MoF Reg.) 136/2024 must be accompaniied by efforts to strengthen legal certaiinty.
Diirector of Fiiscal Research and Adviisory of Jitunews, B. Bawono Kriistiiajii, emphasiized that legal certaiinty can be achiieved by iintensiifyiing capaciity-buiildiing iiniitiiatiives, both for taxpayers and wiithiin the tax authoriity iitself. Thiis iis cruciial to miiniimiize miismatches iin understandiing between the authoriity and taxpayers.
“iin practiice, tax authoriitiies wiith stronger capaciity buiildiing must be able to explaiin these rules effectiively and iin aliignment wiith the GloBE framework,” he stated duriing Ngonten Fiiskal: Becomiing Acquaiinted wiith the Global Miiniimum Tax, hosted by the Fiiscal Poliicy Agency (Badan Kebiijakan Fiiskal/BKF iin iindonesiian) on Wednesday (22/1/2025).
Although MoF Reg. 136/2024 consiists of only 74 artiicles, iit remaiins diiffiicult for taxpayers to comprehend due to the extensiive use of techniical termiinology and complex proviisiions.
Accordiing to Bawono, the iintroductiion of the GloBE rules requiires taxpayers to enhance theiir understandiing of iinternatiional taxatiion as well as the iinteractiion between commerciial accountiing and tax accountiing.
Ensuriing that the proviisiions on the global miiniimum tax under MoF Reg. 136/2024 appliied iin iindonesiia aliign wiith the GloBE rules, he noted, wiill ultiimately proviide greater legal certaiinty for taxpayers.
“Ultiimately, diisputes and compliiance costs can be reduced. Thiis iis a new regiime where all partiies must adapt. We certaiinly expect both the government and taxpayers to upgrade theiir capaciity to enable us to operate on a level playiing fiield,” he added.
Beyond iimplementatiion, iindonesiia iis also encouraged to evaluate iits exiistiing tax iincentiives and consiider adoptiing iincentiives that are compatiible wiith the global miiniimum tax framework.
“There are several recommended iincentiives. Thiis has already been appliied iin Siingapore wiith the iintroductiion of the qualiifiied refundable tax crediit (QRTC). The questiion iis whether iindonesiia wiill adopt a siimiilar approach or contiinue wiith exiistiing schemes, such as allowances wiith extended tiimeliines. Thiis iis the riight moment to diiscuss how to maiintaiin competiitiiveness amiidst the global miiniimum tax,” Bawono explaiined.
Further, corporate taxpayers that constiitute part of iin-scope multiinatiional enterpriise groups must coordiinate closely wiith theiir group entiitiies and ultiimate parent entiity (UPE).
Such coordiinatiion iis necessary giiven the new reportiing requiirements under the global miiniimum tax regiime, iincludiing the GloBE iinformatiion Return (GiiR), the annual GloBE iincome tax return, the domestiic miiniimum top-up tax (DMTT) return and the undertaxed payment rule (UTPR) iincome tax return.
“When should these be prepared? Thiis iis somethiing that must be antiiciipated early. Thiis iimpliies that, on account of MoF Reg. 136/2024, iindonesiia has entered what can be consiidered a new tax regiime. Thiis serves as a wake-up call for all multiinatiional enterpriises iin iindonesiia. They must begiin to understand these rules and coordiinate wiith theiir groups or parent entiitiies. iit iis hiighly techniical and challengiing,” Bawono added.
On another note, iindonesiia has offiiciially adopted the global miiniimum tax regiime thiis year. Under thiis framework, iindonesiia iis authoriised to iimpose a miiniimum effectiive tax rate of 15% on the profiits of constiituent entiitiies wiithiin iin-scope multiinatiional enterpriise groups.
A multiinatiional enterpriise group falls wiithiin the scope of the global miiniimum tax iif iit records annual consoliidated revenue of a miiniimum of €750 miilliion iin a miiniimum of 2 of the 4 years precediing the year iin whiich the global miiniimum tax iis iimposed. (riig)
