Calm, Seal Rp3,000 And Rp6,000 Still Valid Until 2021

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JAKARTA - The government officially raises the stamp duty rate to one price, namely Rp.10,000, and the regulation on this matter will come into effect in 2021. The Ministry of Finance ensures that this new stamp duty tariff does not apply immediately, there is a transition period in the application process for one year. .

The Director General of Taxes (DJP) of the Ministry of Finance, Suryo Utomo, confirmed that the old stamps of Rp. 3,000 and Rp. 6,000 that were already circulating in the public could still be valid until the next year or 2021. Even though at that time the new stamp duty rates were already in effect.

As is known, currently the applicable stamp duty rates are IDR 3,000 and IDR 6,000. The tariff has increased six times, from Rp. 500 and Rp. 1,000 as permitted in Law No. 13/1985 on Stamp Duty.

"There is a transition that the old seal can still be used in one year from now. So the transition is in 2021, one full year we provide a transition," he said, in a virtual press conference, Wednesday, September 30.

Suryo explained that this transitional period was given at the same time to use up the old stamp stock that was already printed but not yet used. This is because, according to him, most people buy a seal but do not use it immediately, but store it first.

"The transition depletes the existing stamp stock, I think that's my simple language. While spending the unused stamp duty stock, we give it space. Because the name is stamp duty we have already bought, but sometimes when we don't know," he explained.

On the same occasion, Director of Tax Regulations I DGT, Arif Yanuar, said that the public can still use both stamps of Rp. 3,000 and Rp. 6,000. This can be done for the next year during the transition period.

"By sealing the document a minimum nominal value of Rp. 9,000. So Rp. 6,000 and Rp. 3,000 or Rp. 6,000 and Rp. 6,000 can be installed. At least Rp. 9,000. Up to one year ahead. This is the transition period," he said.

Previously, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) passed the Stamp Duty Bill (RUU) into Law. The agreement was made at the plenary session of the second level of the decision making on the Stamp Duty Bill, Tuesday, September 29.

The Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, expressed her gratitude for the support of all DPR members in the process of forming this Stamp Duty Bill. So that it comes to the decision-making stage in the plenary session.

This State Treasurer said that stamp duty is a tax on documents whose legal basis for collection is currently referring to Law Number 13 Year 1985 concerning Stamp Duty which has been in effect since January 1, 1986. Since then it has not been changed.

Meanwhile, the existing conditions that have occurred in society for more than three decades have undergone many changes, both in the field of economics, social law and information technology.

According to Sri Mulyani, this has resulted in most of the existing stamp duty arrangements no longer answering the challenges of the increasing need for state revenue as well as developments in the situation and conditions that exist in society.

"The ratification of this bill is very useful as one of the roles of instruments to improve people's welfare and increase quality economic growth and improve stamp duty governance while still considering the principle of justice," said Sri Mulyani.

In this law, it will be optimized in terms of price, namely Rp. 10,000, from the two rates of Rp. 3,000 and Rp. 6,000. However, the government still supports small and medium enterprises, including those whose document values are below or equal to IDR 5 million, do not need to use a stamp.