Like Heaven And Earth, Tax Amnesty Volume II Is Far From Volume I

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JAKARTA - The implementation of the Voluntary Disclosure Program (PPS) which has been held by the government since the beginning of the year will end on June 30.

This program, which is often referred to as tax amnesty or tax amnesty, is the second event after the government implemented the same scheme in 2016-2017 ago.

So, how does the success of these two tax programs compare?

Citing data reported by the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) of the Ministry of Finance, it is known that as of Thursday morning, June 9, 2022, the number of taxpayers (WP) who participated in the second volume of tax amnesty was 68,762 WP.

From that figure, the declared value of assets reached Rp. 144.2 trillion. Then, the net value that goes into the pockets of the state through the withdrawal of income tax (PPh) is Rp. 14.4 trillion.

Meanwhile, for the first volume of the tax amnesty, the number of program participants reached more than 956,000 participants with a total disclosed assets of around IDR 4,800 trillion. Meanwhile, the receipts that went into the state treasury amounted to Rp135 trillion.

This significant difference has made the DGT of the Ministry of Finance carry out a number of special strategies in order to boost the level of taxpayer participation in the PPS agenda this year.

"We continue to intensify socialization and campaigns carried out not only by the head office but also by tax offices throughout Indonesia," said Director General of Taxes Suryo Utomo in his presentation on the realization of the state budget some time ago.

According to Suryo, his party also made an appeal through a letter to the taxpayer based on the data that had been collected so far.

"We get this data from taxpayers' accounts, as well as their asset data so that they immediately report any assets that are in the SPT in 2020 and 2015 if there are any that have not been disclosed," he said.

Based on the provisions, the Voluntary Disclosure Program this time imposes a rate of 8 percent to 11 percent for assets that have not been reported with an acquisition year before December 2015.

Then, the rate is 12 percent to 18 percent of assets obtained from 2016-2020 but have not been reported in the 2020 Annual Tax Return.