Sri Mulyani Complains That Indonesians Have 40 Identity Numbers: Difficult To Collect Taxes

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JAKARTA - Minister of Finance (Menkeu) Sri Mulyani revealed that the number of identity numbers owned by Indonesian citizens with systems that have not been integrated makes the data difficult to analyze.

In fact, according to the Minister of Finance, integrated data will be useful for identifying transactions, assets, and other information related to taxpayers.

“Currently, Indonesians have 40 identity numbers. The identity number has its own system, spread across various institutions or agencies," he said as quoted from the official website of the Ministry of Finance, Sunday, May 30.

The Minister of Finance added that through more complete data and systems, the resulting analysis would be more accurate, both predictive and perspective in nature, to make projections and make policy recommendations.

"In addition to taxation, an integrated data system will make it easier for the government to provide social assistance, subsidies, or other interventions," he said.

Therefore, the Ministry of Finance is committed to building an integrated data system. This effort is in line with the government's initiative in the One Data Indonesia program which is regulated in Presidential Regulation number 39 of 2019, the system will use a common identifier.

"Currently while continuing to build the foundation, the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) is integrating tax data by matching the NIK with the NPWP," he said.

Thus, continued the Minister of Finance, with Government Regulation Number 31 of 2012, DGT has the authority to obtain data and information from agencies, institutions, associations, and other parties (ILAP).

Meanwhile, a total of 80 countries, 69 agencies, with 337 types of data covering transaction data, identity data, licensing data, and non-transactional data were obtained and used by DGT to explore tax potentials, build databases, and analyze potential and risks.

"This is where DGT still faces challenges, especially when doing data matching," he said.

For information, state revenue as of April 30, 2021 was recorded at Rp. 585 trillion or 33.5 percent of the budget ceiling in the 2021 State Budget which was Rp. 1,743 trillion.

The achievements in the first four months of this year are known to have grown by 6.5 percent from the same period in 2020 which amounted to IDR 549.4 trillion.

In detail, this year's state revenue was supported by tax revenues of IDR 374.9 trillion, customs and excise of IDR 78.7 trillion, non-tax state revenues (PNBP) of IDR 131.3 trillion and grants of IDR 100 billion.