Coretax Error on Final Day, Said Abdullah Urges Tax Directorate to Extend SPT Filing Deadline

Member of the Indonesian House of Representatives’ Commission XI, Said Abdullah, has requested that the Directorate General of Taxation grant an extension of the reporting deadline for Annual Tax Notification Letters (SPT) for individual taxpayers. This step is deemed urgent due to technical issues with the Coretax information technology system on the final filing day, Thursday (30 April 2026). Said stated that, up to the last day of reporting, around 3.3 million taxpayers had yet to submit their SPT, even though the deadline had been extended by one month from the usual 31 March 2026. Therefore, he hopes the Directorate General of Taxation can provide discretionary policy in the form of an additional extension, at least one day to one week. “I hope there is attention from the Directorate General of Taxation on this so that taxpayers can still report, for example, by granting a one-day extension due to IT system issues. If corporate taxpayers’ SPT can be until 31 May 2026, I think there is no problem if individual taxpayers are extended by a day or even a week,” Said remarked. In fact, Coretax is designed to support the tax administration system with the ability to integrate data and read tax obligations in more detail to increase state revenue. “Now the Coretax system has been implemented and I see important progress in tax administration. However, since the initial implementation, the Coretax IT system has experienced issues several times,” Said said. He also questioned the timing of system maintenance, which is not conducted at night as is customary in the banking sector. “If there are repeated obstacles in its use, I worry that taxpayer compliance will decline because the prepared system is still problematic,” Said expressed. He added that current tax revenue is the backbone of the state and the main support for financing government programmes and development. Said assessed that a decline in taxpayer compliance due to system issues could directly impact reduced state revenue. Therefore, Said hopes that Finance Minister Purbaya will involve relevant agencies or professional personnel to audit the Coretax system to identify weaknesses and fix them so that similar incidents do not recur. “Do not let these technical issues disrupt strategic policy targets. The Directorate General of Taxation must manage the technical timing so that the number of reporting taxpayers can reach a target of more than 15 million people to support state revenue,” he emphasised.