Digital Tax Reaches IDR 33.73 Trillion In February 2025

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JAKARTA The government noted that until February 28, 2025, the government recorded revenue from the digital economy business sector of Rp33.73 trillion.

Director of Counseling, Services, and Public Relations Dwi Astuti conveyed that the amount came from the collection of Trade Value Added Tax (VAT) through the Electronic System (PMSE) of IDR 26.18 trillion, crypto tax of IDR 1.39 trillion.

In addition, fintech taxes (P2P lending) amounted to Rp3.23 trillion, and taxes collected by other parties for goods and/or services procurement transactions through the Government Procurement Information System (SIPP tax) amounted to Rp2.94 trillion.

Meanwhile, Dwi said that until February 2025 the government had appointed 222 PMSE business actors to become Value Added Tax collectors (VAT).

In February 2025, eleven withdrawals were carried out which included PT Fashion Eservices Indonesia, Netflix International BV, Activision Blizzard International BV, Fenix International Limited, NBA Properties, Inc., BEX Travel Asia Pte Ltd, Tencent Mobility Limited, Unity Technologies ApS, EPIC GAMES INTERNATIONALS. AR.L., BERTRANGE, ROOTBRANCH, GLOBAL CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED, and HOTELS.COM, LP.

Dwi conveyed that of the total polls that had been appointed, 188 PMSE had collected and deposited PMSE VAT amounting to Rp26.18 trillion.

"The amount comes from IDR 731.4 billion in deposits in 2020, IDR 3.90 trillion in deposits in 2021, IDR 5.51 trillion in deposits in 2022, IDR 6.76 trillion in deposits in 2023, IDR 8.44 trillion in deposits in 2024 and IDR 830.3 billion in deposits in 2025," he said in his statement, Friday, March 14.

Dwi said that crypto tax revenues had been collected amounting to Rp1.39 trillion until February 2025. The receipts came from Rp246.45 billion in 2022, Rp393.12 billion in revenues in 2023, Rp620.4 billion in 2024, and Rp126.39 billion in 2025.

According to him, the crypto tax revenue consists of Rp560.61 billion in PPh 22 receipts for crypto sales transactions on exchangers and Rp825.75 billion in VAT DN receipts for crypto purchase transactions on exchangers.

In addition, Dwi conveyed that fintech tax (P2P lending) has also contributed tax revenues of Rp3.23 trillion until February 2025. Revenue from fintech taxes comes from Rp446.39 billion in revenues in 2022, Rp1.11 trillion in revenues in 2023, Rp1.48 trillion in revenues in 2024, and Rp196.49 billion in revenues in 2025.

"The fintech tax consists of PPh 23 on loan interest received by WPDN and BUT amounting to Rp832.59 billion, PPh 26 for interest on loans received by WPLN amounting to Rp720.74 billion, and VAT DN for period deposits of Rp1.68 trillion," he said.

Dwi conveyed that tax revenues for other digital economy businesses came from SIPP tax revenues.

As for February 2025, revenue from the SIPP tax amounted to Rp2.94 trillion, which came from Rp402.38 billion in revenue in 2022, amounting to Rp1.12 trillion in revenue in 2023, Rp1.33 trillion in revenue in 2024, and Rp93.93 billion in revenue in 2025. SIPP tax revenue consists of PPh of Rp199.96 billion and VAT of Rp2.74 trillion.

"In order to create justice and equal business (level playing field) for business actors, both conventional and digital, the government will continue to appoint PMSE business actors who sell products and provide digital services from abroad to consumers in Indonesia," said Dwi.

Dwi also added that the government will explore the potential for other digital economy business tax revenues such as crypto taxes on crypto asset trading transactions, fintech taxes on loan interest paid by loan recipients, and SIPP taxes on goods and/or services procurement transactions through the Government Procurement Information System.