Bekasi Regency Government Has Freed The Most Test Retribution

Bekasi Regency Trade Office officers conducted a tera and re-test on the request of the community in Cibarusah District, Bekasi Regency, West Java, Monday (26/2/2024). ANTARA/Pradita Kurniawan Syah.

BEKASI - The Bekasi Regency Government, West Java, has waived the cost of retribution and re-agency measuring, takar, weighting, and equipment services starting January 2024 or since the implementation of regional regulations related to levies. Head of the Legal Metrology UPTD at the Bekasi Regency Trade Office, Surahman, said that the policy of waiver of tera fees follows up on Law number 1 of 2022 concerning financial relations between the central and regional governments. "There is no tera retribution fee starting this year following up on central government regulations which are then made derivative regulations through the Bekasi Regency Regulation regarding regional levies," he said in Cikarang, Bekasi Regency, as reported by Antara, Monday, February 26. He said this retribution fee exemption policy did not disrupt tera services. His party continues to serve the owners of Ukur, Takar, Timbang, and Equipment (UTTP) tools wholeheartedly, such as when the retribution is still in effect. "If you look at regional income in the retribution and re-trial sector, last year it reached Rp2.4 billion. This year it has been abolished, directed by the central government, but this policy will not change or interfere with services," he said. Test and re-agency services continue as a form of the local government's commitment to protecting consumers and producers so that no one is harmed in every buying and selling transaction process. "Still the supervisory team and legal metrology penera calibrate the scales of traders in markets, gas stations and other locations," he said. Surahman hopes that the elimination of the tera and tera retrial test service retribution policy will be able to increase the compliance of UTTP tool owners so that they can contribute to realizing Bekasi Regency as a benchmark-ordered area. "Hopefully, with the abolition of levies, UTTP equipment owners, both sickle scales, spring scales, digital scales, and sensimal scales according to standards and are suitable for use in buying and selling transaction activities so as not to harm consumers," he said. His party ensures that it continues to facilitate requests for re-renewable and tera-self-contained activities in a number of trade sub-sectors with various types of activities that can be carried out.

"Such as gold scales, table scales, rice mills, waste, and bridge scales of various tonnage sizes. We will continue to serve these requests," he said.