JAKARTA. Directorate General of Taxation is sending 200,000 invitation letters to taxpayers to participate in tax amnesty, due to the low participations.
As of 20 November, the tax authority just collected as much as Rp 97.3 trillion redemption fees. This has just increased by Rp 3.5 trillion from the first phase of tax amnesty.
The number of tax amnesty participants during the second phase of the program is only 118,957 taxpayers, or lower than 395,358 taxpayers during the first period of the program.
This has forced tax authority to launch some strategies to increase the participations in tax amnesty. One of the strategies is to call taxpayers, who might have not reported some of their assets on Annual Tax Notification (SPT).
The tax authority sends email to 204,125 taxpayers to call the taxpayers to join tax amnesty.
Director General of Taxation Ken Dwijugiasetiadi said that this letter is not coercive. "The decision to participate tax amnesty or not is up to the taxpayers," he said, Wednesday (21/12).
However, he warned, the unreported assets may potentially be considered as findings by tax investigators in the future. If the assets are not considered as findings, they may be considered as the unreported additional incomes of the taxpayers.
As a result, the taxpayer must pay the tax debts in a worth of assets, plus administrative sanctions as much as 200% of the assets value. He confirmed that the tax authority has valid data about the assets, on the grounds that the data were derived from the capable sources. The assets consist of properties, shares, until motor vehicles.
Ineffective
Executive Director of Center for Indonesia Taxation Analysis (CITA) Yustinus Prastowo estimates that the strategy will not be effective. The policy may have impacts in the third phase of tax amnesty. However, the impacts will likely be insignificant.
(Muhammad Farid/Translator)
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