The Directorate General Of West Sumatra-Jambi Tax Sets The Director Of Palm Oil Plantation As A Suspect

PADANG - The Regional Office of the Directorate General of Taxes (Kanwil DJP) of West Sumatra and Jambi have named the Director of CV DD which is engaged in oil palm plantations with the initials AS as a suspect in a tax crime case.

"Through the case title both internally at the West Sumatra and Jambi DGT Regional Offices as well as with the Jambi Regional Police PPNS Korwas, investigators have named AS a suspect," said Head of Counseling, Services and Public Relations of the West Sumatra DGT Regional Office and Jambi Marihot Pahala Siahaan in Padang as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, August 1.

Marihot said that before being named a suspect, Civil Servant Investigators (PPNS) who also cooperated with the Jambi Regional Police (Polda) first conducted an investigation into the US.

The US is suspected of violating Article 39 Paragraph (1) letter d of Law Number 6 of 1983 concerning General Provisions and Tax Procedures as last amended into Law Number 7 of 2021 concerning Harmonization of Tax Regulations.

In the investigation process, investigators found two pieces of evidence as required by the Criminal Procedure Code and the decision of the Constitutional Court Number 21/PUU-XII/2014 dated October 28, 2014.

Furthermore, investigators from the West Sumatra and Jambi DGT Regional Offices immediately made and completed the case files which were then submitted to the Jambi High Prosecutor's Office through the Jambi Police PPNS Korwas.

Based on the request of the West Sumatra and Jambi Regional Office investigators, the Jambi Police coordinated with the Bangko Police to detain the US for the next 20 days, and were entrusted to the Bangko Police Detention Center.

In accordance with the provisions of Article 21 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, detention was carried out because it was feared that the suspect would run away, destroy evidence and repeat his actions. The criminal act committed by the suspect was intentionally submitting a notification letter (SPT) and/or information whose contents were not true.

Or incomplete during the period of the 2020 tax year (for the annual PPh SPT) and the tax period from June to July 2020 (for the VAT period). The suspect's actions caused losses to state revenues of at least Rp452 million.

The suspect's actions are threatened with a minimum imprisonment of six months, and a maximum of six years and a fine of at least two times the amount of payable taxes that are not or less paid, and a maximum of four times the amount of payable taxes that are not or are less paid.

In connection with this case, the West Sumatra and Jambi DGT Regional Offices hope that people in the region carry out tax obligations properly in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The Regional Office of West Sumatra and Jambi DGT continues to be committed to law enforcement in a consistent and professional manner as an effort to increase public compliance with tax provisions and increase state revenues.