{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "id": 1690434,
        "msgid": "it-turns-out-toll-road-vat-was-nearly-implemented-in-2015-1776750698",
        "date": "2026-04-21 12:16:00",
        "title": "It Turns Out Toll Road VAT Was Nearly Implemented in 2015",
        "author": "Muhammad Idris",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "The Indonesian government, through the Directorate General of Taxes, is planning to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) on toll road services as part of its strategy to broaden revenue sources, outlined in the DJP Strategic Plan for 2025-2029. This policy revives a previous attempt from 2015, which was cancelled due to protests from logistics businesses and deemed untimely under President Joko Widodo's administration. The reintroduction aims to legally mandate toll road operators to collect, deposit, and report VAT, potentially using toll tickets as equivalent to tax invoices.",
        "content": "<p>The government, through the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP), is\npreparing a plan to impose Value Added Tax (VAT) on toll road services.\nThis policy is one of the steps to expand the country\u2019s tax revenue\nsources in the coming years. The plan is outlined in the DJP Strategic\nPlan (Renstra) for 2025-2029, which includes several agendas for\npreparing new regulations to strengthen state revenues. In that\ndocument, the preparation of rules regarding the mechanism for\ncollecting VAT on toll road services is listed as one of the\ngovernment\u2019s priority policies to increase state revenues. \u201cProviding a\nlegal basis for the mechanism of collecting VAT on the provision of toll\nroad services,\u201d states the document, quoted on Tuesday (21\/4\/2026). For\ninformation, the implementation of toll road tax with a VAT mechanism is\nnot something new. This plan has actually been around for a long time\nand was nearly realised in 2015. \u201cThe regulation also stipulates that\ntoll road entrepreneurs must report their business to be confirmed as\ntaxable entrepreneurs who subsequently have the obligation to collect,\ndeposit, and report the due VAT,\u201d writes the Directorate General of\nTaxes. With this VAT, toll road entrepreneurs are required to issue tax\ninvoices for every provision of toll road services. To facilitate this,\ntoll tickets become certain documents whose position is equated with tax\ninvoices. However, the toll road VAT, which was originally set to take\neffect from 1 April 2015, was then cancelled by the government after\nreceiving protests from various parties, including logistics\nentrepreneurs. The government in the era of President Joko Widodo\n(Jokowi) then cancelled the plan to impose tax on toll roads. The\ncancellation was carried out because the implementation time was\nconsidered inappropriate. The government through the Directorate General\nof Taxes then issued a new regulation that cancelled the toll road tax\nwith the VAT collection scheme, namely DJP Regulation Number\nPer-16\/PJ\/2015, which at that time was signed by DJP Director General\nSigit Priadi Pramudito.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/it-turns-out-toll-road-vat-was-nearly-implemented-in-2015-1776750698",
        "image": ""
    },
    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
    "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
}