High Tax And Customs Revenue, Commission XI Appreciates The Performance Of The Regional Office Of The Director General Of Taxes In East Kalimantan

Deputy Chairman of Commission XI DPR RI Amir Uskara during a visit scheduled for a meeting with East Kalimantan DJBC in Balikpapan, Thursday (2/2/2023).

Deputy Chairman of Commission XI DPR Amir Uskara appreciates the positive Regional Office (Kanwil) of the Directorate General of Taxes and Customs (DJBC) of East Kalimantan Province (Kaltim) for realizing high tax and customs revenues.

Amir also hopes that the state revenue can have a broad impact on the welfare of the community

"This is something that is very maximal. This percentage is probably the highest in Indonesia. If you look at the causes of the increase in revenue due to the high increase in commodity prices and it turns out that the receipts are not targeted in the 2022 work plan," said Amir when met during a visit. scheduled meeting with East Kalimantan DJBC in Balikpapan, Thursday 2 February.

He said, based on data from the Regional Office of DJBC Kalbagtim, the acceptance of the East Kalimantan Customs Regional Office until December 2022 was 115.16% of the target of IDR 4,104,908,981,000.00 and the realization was IDR 4,727,130,492,966.00.

For this achievement, Amir hopes that the opportunity to increase revenue can be maintained. "These will all be reviewed and seen for potential, if there is still of course in 2023, we hope that state revenues can also be maximized even more," explained the politician from the PPP faction.

Maximizing state revenue will also encourage government programs in an effort to prosper the people. For this reason, Amir said that no matter how much tax value is obtained, it will certainly be distributed for the purpose of improving the standard of living of the Indonesian people.

"Every rupiah received from the taxation will be budgeted in state spending. No matter how small it is, it will certainly affect the welfare of the community. Therefore, we in the DPR will monitor how that budget is spent by the government, there will be direct influence in improving the welfare of the community," he explained.

As for the meeting, the Head of the Regional Office of the Directorate General of Taxes for East and North Kalimantan, Max Darmawan, said that his party continues to boost the tax target in 2023.

Several ways are done both internally, such as taking the steps that have been set in achieving annual SPT compliance with several approaches and preparing schedules for the implementation of activities and the realization of prognosis so that compliance targets can be achieved earlier.

Meanwhile, from the external side, the DGT will also try to supervise the dominant sector taxpayer activities (mining and plantations) on tax obligations that are due in the current year and carry out surveillance plans for taxpayers who do not depend on global commodity prices.