The Ministry Of Finance Gives 2 Months For A Tax Collector Marketplace From Omzet Traders Above IDR 500 Million

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Finance has given two months for the marketplace to prepare to collect income tax (PPh) 22 from online traders.

Director of Taxation I Hestu Yoga Saksama said that his party had coordinated with a number of local market players to socialize the plan to appoint Trade Organizers through the Electronic System (PPMSE) who would collect taxes from online traders.

According to him, the pelapasar actors admitted that they needed time to prepare their system before implementing the policy.

"When they are ready for implementation, maybe in the next month or two we will designate them as PMSE collectors," Yoga said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, July 15.

On the same occasion, the Expert Staff of the Minister of Finance for Tax Compliance Yon Arsal explained that the policy regulated in the Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) Number 37 of 2025 was not immediately implemented even though it was promulgated on July 14, 2025.

His party will hold an audience with each market player to see each other's readiness.

"To provide equal treatment. We realize that there are local markets that are ready, some are not yet. But we hope that the distance will not take too long, so that later we will take a mechanism," said Yon.

He also ensured that the appointment of a marketplace as a tax collector would be followed up with a Decree of the Director General of Taxes.

appointments will also be made in stages.

For the record, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati officially signed PMK 37/2025 on June 11, 2025 and promulgated on July 14, 2025.

Through this PMK, Sri Mulyani as finance minister will appoint a marketplace as a PPMSE to collect taxes from online traders.

The amount of PPh 22 collected is 0.5 percent of the gross turnover received by traders in a year. The levy is outside the value added tax (VAT) and sales tax on luxury goods (PPnBM).

The traders targeted for this policy are those who have a turnover of more than IDR 500 million, as evidenced by a new statement submitted to the appointed marketplace.

Meanwhile, traders who have turnover below IDR 500 million are free from this levy.

Exceptions also apply to a number of other transactions, such as expedition and online transportation services (online motorcycle taxis or ojol), credit sellers, to gold trading.