Is Affiliate Mandatory To Pay Taxes? Check Out The Explanation Here

YOGYAKARTA - The affiliate program of various e-commerce companies is known by many people to be able to help provide additional income. For information, affiliation or affiliate is a program for content creators to produce commissions or money by promoting various products on social media. Because it makes up to millions of rupiah per month, is it affiliate to pay taxes?

Shopee, one of the e-commerce that is widely used by the public, requires Shopee Affiliate Program actors to list 16 digit NPWP as a condition for obtaining commissions. Meanwhile, on TikTok Shop Affiliate, affiliates can complete tax information including NPWP before withdrawing commissions. However, if you have included the NPWP, are affiliates who play affiliate required to pay taxes?

The Director of Counseling, Services and Public Relations of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, Dwi Astuti explained, NPWP must be owned by everyone who has met subjective and objective requirements. This is also applied to people who are members of the affiliate e-commerce program.

Are affiliate taxpayers? (Freepic)

Affiliate e-commerce actors who meet the requirements will also be required to pay taxes from the income they get. According to Dwi, based on the applicable laws, subjective requirements include the existence of tax subjects.

"For example, for private people, which is more than 183 days in Indonesia in 12 months," explained Dwi.

As for the objective requirements, namely receiving income that exceeds Non-Taxable Income (PTKP) in a year. Law Number 7 of 2021 concerning Harmonization of Tax Regulations (UU HPP) regulates, PTKP for individual taxpayers is IDR 54 million per year or IDR 4.5 million per month.

The amount of the PTKP can still increase according to the conditions of each taxpayer, to be as big as:

For all affiliate actors with the commission to touch this figure, they will be required to pay income taxes.

"If an affiliate e-commerce person meets subjective and objective requirements, he is obliged to have an NPWP and the income he receives will be subject to an income tax," he said.

People who want to try to become an affiliate e-commerce but don't have a NPWP don't need to worry. Because, everyone who meets the requirements can apply for the manufacture of NPWP independently via online.

Quoted by VOI, individuals who do not run their business are only required to provide Identity Cards (KTP).

Next, take the steps to make NPWP below:

After registering, taxpayers can access the NPWP card online on the ereg.pajak.go.id page which will later be used to register for the affiliate e-commerce program.

That's a review of whether affiliate is mandatory to pay taxes. Hopefully this information will be useful. Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.