Director General Of Taxes: Rich People Are Not Operational Targets

Director General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance Suryo Utomo (Photo: Capture Hipmi Youtube screen)

JAKARTA The Director General (Dirjen) of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, Suryo Utomo, dismissed the assumption that the government was forming a special task force (task force) targeting rich people to pay taxes.

According to him, this assumption has deviated from the duties and functions currently being carried out by the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP).

"If people are rich in the task force, right (it's not true). We don't target rich people to be the target of operations," he said on the agenda of the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (Hipmi) in Jakarta, Wednesday, July 26.

Suryo straightened out that the efforts now being taken were solely to secure state revenue.

"But maybe there are people whose compliance doesn't fit our taxes... If the risk is high, it will be a priority in terms of future handling," he said.

Sri Mulyani's subordinate explained that the DGT is currently building a risk management system. This initiative was taken to ensure taxpayers (WP) can fulfill their obligations to the state. In addition, the latest scheme can encourage work efficiency within the Ministry of Finance.

"Now there are 1,600 (employees) in the Directorate of Taxes. When compared to our effective taxpayers, there are almost 16 million taxpayers. So it is very impossible for us to mark to mark monitoring one taxpayer with one tax worker, so we develop tools," he said.

Furthermore, Suryo said that the government had also implemented a tax amnesty program in 2016 to facilitate taxpayers to be able to reveal what had not been declared.

This is like a national reconciliation to let each other go of the past. We close and we face to face so that there is access to more open information. So do we have checking accounts for ladies and gentlemen? We have. Since when? Since 2017 and 2018 we have received it," he said.

"This is not to scare, but so we can talk about transparency," said Suryo.