Tax Revenue Not Yet Maximized, Board Evaluates Bogor City Bapenda Performance

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BOGOR - Commission II used the working meeting to discuss the 2025 Draft Regional Budget as a forum to evaluate the performance of the Bogor City Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda), Tuesday, October 29.

Deputy Chairperson I of the Bogor City DPRD, M Rusli Prihatevy, who is also the coordinator of Commission II of the Bogor City DPRD, assessed that the performance of the Bogor City Bapenda has not been optimal in collecting taxes for the Bogor City PAD.

He also questioned the taxpayer's receivables which based on the Ministry of Finance's SIKD data have only been realized at 79.59 percent.

"Bapenda must be able to maximize taxes that have not been collected so that the realization of regional taxes can be 100 percent," explained Rusli.

Specifically for taxes from the PBB sector, according to Rusli, their realization must be maximized. This aims to increase the Bogor City PAD which will contribute to increasing the Bogor City APBD.

Because there are still many arrears from PBB taxes that have not been paid and this is a very large potential income for the City of Bogor.

Rusli also emphasized that the tax options that are currently being transferred to the Bogor City Government must be maximized by Bappeda.

"Bapenda must be more creative in collecting PBB tax arrears. So that the Bogor City PAD can increase and have a positive impact on the Bogor City APBD structure," said Rusli.

At the same location, a member of Commission II of the Bogor City DPRD, Akhmad Saeful Bakhri, hopes that Bapenda will conduct an evaluation in optimizing revenue.

By opening up, consolidation and coordination space with other related Agencies. This aims to ensure that potential and opportunities as well as obstacles and problems can be solved together through the Agency's program activity strategy.

"For example, with Dinkopukmdagin regarding restaurant tax, Disparbud regarding hotel restaurant cafe entertainment tax, parking tax with Dishub and others," said ASB.