The Movement To Stop Paying Taxes Due To Alleged Unreasonable Assets Owned By Rafael Alun, Commission XI Of The House Of Representatives: Restore Public Trust

Rafael Alun Trisambodo, who was removed from his position as an employee of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, decided to resign from the status of ASN. (doc VOI)

Member of Commission XI of the House of Representatives, Puteri Anetta Komarudin, revealed that there was a movement to stop paying taxes due to the alleged unnatural property of Rafael Alun Trisambodo, the father of the perpetrator of the persecution of Mario Dandy Satriyo while serving as an official of the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance.

According to him, the movement has the potential to erode taxpayers' trust, reduce tax revenues, result in continued development, and disrupted public services. "The benefits of this tax have been potentially eroded through this irresponsible movement. For this reason, public trust must be returned immediately, especially education that taxes are managed, supervised, and used properly," said Puteri in her statement, Tuesday, February 28, confiscated by Antara. She said, so far taxes have provided benefits to the public through various public services and facilities. According to her records, in 2020 the government managed to collect tax revenues of up to Rp1,717.8 trillion. The tax was used to provide social protection to 161.7 million people through basic food assistance, electricity subsidies, LPG subsidies, fuel subsidies, and national health insurance programs (JKN). In addition, she said, taxes were used to maintain the resilience of MSMEs through KUR and non-KUR subsidies to 7 million debtors. Taxes were used for the construction of basic service infrastructure, such as construction of 6,624 km of railway lines, 1,823 special housing units, as well as 2,344 BTS in the leading, outermost, outermost and underdeveloped (3T) areas.

Puteri emphasized that tax revenues are regularly examined and audited by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). The use of taxes to finance development is supervised by the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

Meanwhile, DPR member Daniel Johan said the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance was experiencing a severe blow due to the actions of one of the sons of a tax official. As a result of this problem, he said, on social media there was a movement to stop paying taxes. Daniel said that public trust in the Directorate General of Taxes should not continue to be eroded. He encouraged the government to make real actions so that people would continue to believe and be willing to pay taxes because if it took a long time, then it is not impossible for certain parties to take advantage of the issue. "There must be significant breakthroughs, not just symbolic. Returning trust is the best way," he said.