Sri Mulyani's Subordinates Say The Government Will Continue Fiscal Incentives In The Health Sector This Year, 2021 Realization Will Reach Rp10 Trillion

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JAKARTA - The government has decided to extend the provision of tax incentive facilities for goods needed to handle the COVID-19 pandemic and Income Tax (PPh) facilities for health workers until June 2022. The policy is contained in Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) Number 226/PMK. 03/2021.

Director of Counseling, Services and Public Relations at the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, Neilmaldrin Noor, said this effort took into account the national disaster that had not yet fully ended.

"So it is necessary to re-arrange tax incentives on goods needed for handling the pandemic and PPh facilities for health workers (health workers)," he said in an official statement, Wednesday, January 12.

In addition, the government has also extended incentives in the form of a Final PPh facility of 0 percent for additional income received by human resources in the health sector.

"This means that health workers such as doctors and nurses as well as health support personnel such as cleaning staff, ambulance drivers, and corpse recovery personnel, who are tasked with handling COVID-19 and receiving honoraria or other benefits, can receive the additional income in full because they are subject to PPh 0 percent," he explained.

In a statement delivered by the Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani last week, it was revealed that the realization of fiscal incentives in the health sector throughout 2021 was Rp10.12 trillion.

The amount consists of incentives for importing medical devices of Rp1.79 trillion, incentives for importing vaccines of Rp8.33 trillion, and incentives for the business world of Rp7.68 trillion.