Entrepreneurs Avoid Taxes, Why Make Tax Center?

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (Hipmi) has expressed a strong commitment to support the government in the tax strategic agenda.

This was conveyed by the General Chairperson of Hipmi Akbar Himawan Buchari.

According to him, this was realized through collaboration with the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) of the Ministry of Finance.

"This hipmi makes this tax center for what? When entrepreneurs stay away from taxes, we even provide space and build partnerships with the Ministry of Finance, in this case the Directorate General of Taxes," he said at the inauguration of the Tax Center Hipmi in Jakarta, Wednesday, July 26.

Akbar explained, this initiation is also an answer to the anxiety of business actors so far.

"So so far, the literacy about taxation is lacking, not not wanting to pay taxes. Therefore, insight and education must be given," he said.

The second thing is how business actors provide input to the government.

"Because there are many stimuli given but they are deemed unfair. Like when giving incenti tax holidays," he said.

For information, tax revenues until June 2023 amounted to IDR 970.2 trillion.

This figure grew 9.9 percent compared to the same period the previous year of Rp882.6 trillion.

"Tax revenues until the first semester of 2023 grew positively, mainly supported by economic performance in the first quarter," said Finance Minister Sri Mulyani in a press conference on the State Budget earlier this week.

The Minister of Finance explained that the tax fine score in the first half of this year was equivalent to 56.4 percent of the APBN target set at IDR 1,718 trillion.