Good News For Honorary Workers, Sri Mulyani Opens Your Tax Clear Option

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JAKARTA - The Minister of Finance (Menkeu) admitted that he would review the discourse on the abolition of tax levies for honorary workers.

This was conveyed by the Minister of Finance when attending a Working Meeting with the DPR's Budget Board today.

According to him, the income of workers who are included in the honorary workforce is relatively small. This can not be separated from the many types of activities held so that the focus of budget allocation is divided.

"I understand about taking sides with them. But also frankly below (agencies) there are many types of work, from BKKBN, Village Fund assistants, social and others. Indeed, this creates jobs, but the salary is small, so it's a lot," he said at the parliamentary complex on Thursday, May 19.

The Minister of Finance also said that his party would review the amount of honorarium and accompanying tax obligations.

"It's all been included in our thinking (study)," he said.

Even so, the state treasurer explained, the current policy adopted is to strengthen the tax base in order to achieve development targets rather than providing new fiscal incentives. As compensation, the government then tries to strengthen purchasing power through spending interventions in the APBN.

“Frankly, I don't really like this (tax incentives), because when we talk about purchasing power from the public, it's not about the taxation side. Tax actually wants to be complete. Because if we always make this exception, the exception will become a tax, it will never become a solid backbone,” he explained.

"For that we must see that to make interventions better in terms of spending, so as not to weaken the instrument side of our APBN (state revenue sector)," continued Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani.

Citing data released by the Ministry of Finance, it is known that until March 2022 tax revenues have reached Rp. 322.5 trillion or grew 41.4 percent compared to the same period the previous year of Rp. 228.1 trillion.