JAKARTA History today, 13 years ago, June 22, 2012, a politician who is also a Candidate for Governor (Cagub) of DKI Jakarta, Joko Widodo (Jokowi) refused the DKI Jakarta government to tax a warteg (warteg) stall. The refusal arose because Jokowi saw warteg as a small business and not a restaurant class that had to be taxed.
Previously, the DKI Jakarta government's desire to withdraw taxes from warteg became a polemic. The 10 percent tax is considered burdensome because the warteg's profit is not much. This condition made national figures participate in criticizing the policy.
The DKI Jakarta government is often at the forefront of obtaining taxes. Moreover, under the administration of Fauzi Bowo (Foke). The discourse on collecting taxes is piled up. Everything is done so that Jakarta continues to build.
Foke is not only able to take taxes from the entertainment and tourism sectors. Foke even wants to work on warteg tax matters. The discourse has been present since the end of 2010. Foke wants to issue a regional regulation that participates in taxing warteg such as restaurants.
Warteg's tax plan continues to be discussed. The DKI Jakarta government then got the right formula. They will tax restaurants including warteg which is worth selling at least IDR 200 million per year. The Warteg will be subject to a restaurant tax rate of 10 percent.
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The DKI Jakarta government is not alone in drafting regulations. The power of attorney also involved the DKI Jakarta DPRD. The idea of Foke getting the green light of fellow politicians. The regulation officially comes on December 29, 2011. However, warteg entrepreneurs in Jakarta objected.
They consider warteg businesses not as big as other restaurant businesses. Determination of tax objects in the form of businesses worth selling Rp200 million a year is considered irrational. This is because if the daily sales are calculated, it is only more than Rp500 thousand.
Even then, from the existing sales, entrepreneurs are considered only to have a profit of IDR 75 thousand. If it is distributed to the government 10 percent, warteg entrepreneurs must provide a government of IDR 50 thousand per day. Meanwhile, warteg entrepreneurs only get IDR 25 thousand.
The Warung Tegal Cooperative clearly refused. They considered that they had never been involved in the regional regulation.
"With that minimal profit, it is impossible for us to run our business, let alone pay workers," said member of the Warung Tegal Cooperative, Ali Zakiyudin as quoted by the COMPASS.com page, February 1, 2012.
The affairs of the DKI Jakarta government, including warteg, do not only get protests from businessmen. Politicians also raise their voices. They consider the warteg tax rules to be impartial to small entrepreneurs.
A political figure who is also the Cagub of DKI Jakarta, Jokowi also spoke up on June 22, 2012. He strongly criticized and rejected the DKI Jakarta government for taxing warteg. Cagub, who will be paired with Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok), considers warteg as not yet a time to be taxed because it is still a small business.
The Cagub, which is promoted by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) and the Gerindra Party, also sees that the DKI Jakarta government does not provide a small growing space for small entrepreneurs. In fact, the government should be able to provide sufficient assistance so that warteg entrepreneurs develop and are equal to restaurants.
Jokowi then promised to help warteg entrepreneurs in Jakarta when they were elected later in the 2012 DKI Jakarta Pilgub. He is willing to provide assistance in the form of capital to treatment facilities.
"Small citizens when they were taxed. Don't give them a burden. Don't just tie them up yet, how come they have been taxed. If they have gone up to become a restaurant, they are taxed. We want (warteg) to rise to the restaurant level. Given facilities, capital injection so that the facilities at Warteg look hygienic. Provide treatment facilities. Besides being cheap, they perform well," Jokowi said as quoted on the tribunnews.com page, June 22, 2012.
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