Hooray Hotel, Restaurant And Cafe Employees Get Tax Relief Until The End Of 2025

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JAKARTA - The government provides good news for workers in the hotel, restaurant and cafe (Horeka) sector where starting from the second semester of 2025, employees in this sector will receive incentives in the form of Income Tax (PPh) Article 21 which is Borne by the Government (DTP) until the end of 2025.

This policy was conveyed by the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto as part of the continuation of the 2025 economic stimulus package which aims to maintain people's purchasing power and encourage economic activity in the second semester of 2025.

"The tax expansion is borne by the government, which is now running on a labor-intensive industry to also be encouraged to expand other sectors. (The sector) israkika," said Airlangga at a press conference in Jakarta, Friday (12/9/2025).

For information, PPh 21 DTP incentives currently apply to employees who work in labor-intensive sectors such as footwear, textiles and finished clothing, furniture, and skin and skin products, as stipulated in the Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) Number 10 of 2025.

In addition, data on taxpayers and business sectors who are entitled to receive this incentive refers to the classification of the main business fields listed in the attachment to PMK 10/2025 and the database in the tax administration of the Directorate General of Taxes (cantum in attachment letters A PMK 10/2025).

This policy is given to employees who are entitled to receive incentives and must also meet several criteria such as permanent employees with a monthly gross income of no more than Rp. 10 million; and non-permanent employees with an average daily income of a maximum of Rp. 500,000.

"To maintain the sustainability of people's purchasing power and carry out the function of economic and social stabilization, economic stimulus packages have been determined as an effort by the government in maintaining the level of community welfare, among others, by providing fiscal facilities in the form of taxes borne by the government," wrote the consideration of the regulation.