Traffic Corps Suggests To Abolish Fees Of Title Transfer And Progressive Vehicle Taxes

Brigadier General Yusri Yunus, Director of the National Police Traffic Corps. ANTARA/HO-National Police Traffic Corps Public Relations

JAKARTA - The Traffic Corps (Korlantas) of the National Police has proposed the abolition of the transfer fee for motorized vehicles (BBN2) and a progressive vehicle tax.

"We propose that this name change be removed so that the public wants to pay taxes," said the Director of Regional Police of the National Police Korlantas Brigadier General Yusri Yunus in a written statement quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, August 25.

Brigadier General Yusri Yunus explained that the proposal aims to regulate vehicle ownership data and stimulate the public to be more obedient in paying taxes.

Yusri revealed that one of the reasons why many people do not pay taxes is because used vehicle buyers do not change their identity of ownership of the name of the vehicle due to the high cost.

For the proposed abolition of progressive tax, Yusri said that many original vehicle owners use other people's names for their vehicle data to avoid progressive tax.

In addition, said Yusri, there are vehicle owners who use the company name to avoid taxes.

"The tax for PT is very small, it is a loss to the state. So, we propose that the progressive tax be eliminated already, so that people who have lots of cars are happy, they don't need to use the PT name anymore, they are just afraid to pay progressive taxes," he explained.

Yusri stated that his party would propose it to regional heads from governors to regents. This is for the sake of increasing regional income. The reciprocal of increased regional income is that public facilities will be maximally provided by the government to the community.

"It's not a matter for the police, taxes are a matter of suspension. However, we are synergizing there, especially regarding data," he asserted.

In addition, Yusri also conveyed the difference in the number of motorized vehicles between the Police, PT Jasa Raharja, and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

According to Yusri, this could happen because the vehicle owner did not report the state of his vehicle ownership. For example, the vehicle is lost, damaged and/or does not pay taxes so the data is deleted.

"All motorized vehicles registered with the police still have data, the data is complete," he said.

Yusri said that the difference in vehicle data affected the community's compliance data in paying taxes.

Therefore, Yusri hopes that with the National Samsat coordination meeting, the data problem can be equated.

"We are setting up a single data set to unify and equalize all data," he said.