KPK Installs Tax Arrears Stickers For 6 Hotels In Sorong

PHOTO VIA BETWEEN

SORONG - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) together with the Sorong City government put stickers indicating tax arrears on six hotels.

The head of the Sorong City Regional Tax and Levy Management Agency, Demianus Nakoh, said that the tax arrears for the six hotels with the KPK stickers were valued at Rp. 4.6 billion.

The six hotels with tax arrears stickers are the Vega Hotel, Kriyad Hotel, Belagri Hotel, The Belagri Hotel, Royal Mamberamo Hotel and Marina Mamberamo Hotel.

He explained that the tax arrears that had to be paid by the six hotels were payable from December 2019 to November 2021.

According to Demianus, although the Sorong City Regional Tax and Levy Management Agency coordinates every time so that the hotel pays the tax, it is always ignored.

According to him, there is no policy to reduce the value of the tax arrears, because it is not company or hotel money but consumer or community tax money that is entrusted to be deposited into the regional treasury.

"However, local governments can provide relief to pay the tax arrears in installments," he said, quoted by Antara, Friday, November 19.

Demianus said that of the six hotels that had the KPK sticker on them, the largest tax arrears was Hotel Vega, worth Rp. 1 billion.

"We give the hotel time for the next week to pay off the tax arrears," he added.

Meanwhile, the Head of the KPK Region V Coordination and Supervision Task Force, Dian Patria, who gave a separate statement, said that the COVID-19 pandemic was not an excuse for hotels not to pay taxes, because tax money is not company money but consumer or public money that is deposited. to be submitted to the local government.

He said the tax arrears sticker would be removed when the hotel paid off their tax arrears to the local government of Sorong City.

"We have agreed that the time given for the next week for the hotel to pay off all their tax arrears so far," said Dian Patria.