JAKARTA - The Directorate General of Taxes of the Ministry of Finance appointed Amazon.com.ca, Inc as a collector of Value Added Tax (VAT) for Trading Through an Electronic System (PMSE) on digital products sold to customers in Indonesia.
Apart from Amazon, DGT also appointed three other companies that also met the criteria, namely Image Future Investment (HK) Limited, Dropbox International Unlimited Company, and Freepik Company SL.
Director of Counseling, Services, and Public Relations, DGT Neilmaldrin Noor, ensured that through this determination, the appointed digital tax collectors had reached 57 business entities.
"With this appointment, since April 1, 2021, these business actors will begin to collect VAT on digital products and services they sell to consumers in Indonesia", he said, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, March 31.
Neil said the amount of VAT that customers must pay is 10 percent of the pre-tax price and must be included on the receipt or invoice issued by the seller as proof of VAT collection.
Especially for marketplaces that are domestic taxpayers appointed as collectors, VAT collection is only carried out on the sale of digital goods and services by foreign sellers who sell through the marketplace.
DGT continues to identify and conduct socialization to several other companies that sell digital products abroad to Indonesia so that soon the number of business actors appointed as VAT collectors for digital products will continue to grow.
Previously, as many as 53 global companies were registered to have collaborated with the DGT since the beginning of July 2020 to collect digital VAT. Companies that are mostly located abroad include Amazon Web Services Inc, Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd, Google Ireland Ltd, Google LLC, Netflix International BV, and Spotify AB.
Then Facebook Ireland Ltd, Facebook Payments International Ltd, Facebook Technologies International Ltd, Amazon.com Services LLC, and Audible Inc. Furthermore, Alexa Internet, Audible Ltd, Apple Distribution International Ltd, Tiktok Pte. Ltd, The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd and LinkedIn Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Also, McAfee Ireland Ltd, Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, Mojang AB, Novi Digital Entertainment Pte Ltd, and PCCW Vuclip (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Skype Communications SARL, Twitter Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Twitter International Company, Zoom Video Communications Inc, PT Jingdong Indonesia Pertama, and PT Shopee International Indonesia.
Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited, GitHub, Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Regional Sales Pte Ltd, UCWeb Singapore Pte Ltd, Coda Payments Pte Ltd, and To The New Private Limited.
Nexmo Inc, Cleverbridge AG Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise USA, Softlayer Dutch Holdings BV, PT Ecart Webportal Indonesia, PT Bukalapak.com, Valve Corporation, and PT Tokopedia.
PT Global Digital Niaga, beIN Sports Asia Pte Limited, Etsy Ireland Unlimited Company, Proxima Beta Pte Ltd, Tencent Mobility Limited, Tencent Mobile International Limited, Snap Group Limited, Netflix Pte. Ltd, eBay Marketplace GmbH, and Nordvpn SA
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