Sri Mulyani Affirms Loss Is The Reason The Company Provides Taxes In Today's Memory, June 28, 2021

The tax reporting atmosphere at one of the tax offices. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, four years ago, 28 June 2021, Minister of Finance (Menkeu), Sri Mulyani revealed the reason for the loss to be the most widely used by companies to outsmart taxes. This condition is considered unreasonable because some companies have even expanded their business.

Previously, Indonesia was known for its self-assessment tax collection system (self-assessment). Taxpayers calculate and report their tax obligations. This condition often raises tax disputes.

Taxes are a powerful development fuel for Indonesia. The estuary is because taxes are the biggest contributors to the state budget. The portion reaches 70 to 75 percent. This amount makes the government actively collect taxes.

Problems arise. The tax collection system in Indonesia is self-assessment. This means that personal and corporate taxpayers must calculate and report their own tax obligations. This condition in fact brings many problems.

Tax officials often find differences between reports and taxes should be. Tax disputes have emerged. Those who are subject to tax disputes are not small but piled up. The number is increasing year by year in 2021 alone reaching more than 15 thousand application files.

Taxpayers do not give up. They often have a strategy to be able to prove that the tax apparatus has wrongly assessed. The trick to lose is one of the strategies that are relied on. This trick can make the majority of taxpayers often win in the initial stage of the series.

The number of requests that tend to increase shows that taxpayers are increasingly understanding their rights. Tax officials must be more accurate when issuing a determination. The increasingly mounting dispute files must be addressed by the tax court to further implement a fast, simple, and low-cost trial. Hopefully, the ones that are being developed can be realized soon," said Budi Nugroho in his writings in Kompas daily entitled Sengketa Pajak, Negara Wins (2022).

The problem has become Sri Mulyani's main focus. He feels for himself how taxpayers have a powerful strategy to deal with tax disputes. Sri Mulyani revealed that the strategy in question is the reason for losing money to become the foundation for outsmarting taxes on June 28, 2021.

He revealed this fact because he saw data on taxpayers who lost money from 2012-2016 only 5,199 taxpayers. However, in 2015-2019 it increased significantly to 9,496 taxpayers. He considered the reason for the loss to be used was reasonable.

Sri became suspicious. He observed for himself that some companies claimed to have lost was actually different from the facts on the ground. In fact, in the field, many companies are expanding their business wings. Something that indicates that the loss is not entirely true.

"The agency's taxpayers who reported losses continued to increase by 8 percent in 2012 and rose to 11 percent in 2019. However, we want to make fair compliance, many corporate taxpayers use tax evasion schemes. On the other hand, Indonesia does not yet have comprehensive tax evasion," Sri Mulyani said as quoted on the CNBC Indonesia website, June 28, 2021.