Coretax Remains a Challenge: HIPMI and Privy Assist Entrepreneurs in Improving Digital Documents

For many business actors, tax affairs remain a headache. The complicated filling of SPT, adaptation to the digital system, and technical obstacles in Coretax often cause the reporting process to be disrupted, especially as deadlines approach.

In this situation, the readiness of administration and legality of documents becomes key. Addressing this need, HIPMI Bandung City and HIPMI West Java have partnered with Privy as a provider of certified digital identities and electronic signatures to help young entrepreneurs smooth the tax reporting process in the digital era through Coretax.

This step is crucial amid the implementation of Coretax, which has entered its second year. This is because many business actors still require guidance in adapting to this new system.

The initiative was realised through a strategic discussion titled “Coretax Era: Master Annual SPT Filling & Legally Valid Paperless Documents” on 15 April 2026, attended by nearly 100 members of HIPMI Bandung City and West Java.

This collaboration also aligns with Privy’s role as an official partner of the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP), providing electronic certificates for secure digital signatures on the Coretax system for two consecutive years.

According to the General Chairman of BPC HIPMI Bandung City, Ibrahim Imaduddin, many business actors in West Java are still focused only on the procedures for tax reporting through Coretax. Although they have switched to digital documents, many have not ensured aspects of document validity such as invoices, contracts, and financial reports.

These documents can actually be verified through the use of digital signatures. “Therefore, HIPMI Bandung City is partnering with Privy to educate young business actors on the relationship between document legality through electronic signatures that drive efficiency and legal validity to support tax reporting,” said Ibam.

In agreement, Chairman of Basnom Tax Center West Java, Angga Prayoga, stated that the readiness of digital documents is an inseparable part of tax compliance itself. Moreover, the management of legally valid documents is also the foundation of long-term competitiveness for young entrepreneurs. “Thus, the implementation of Coretax can become a momentum that supports business sustainability and credibility, in addition to encouraging tax reporting efficiency,” he said.

Meanwhile, Verent, Enterprise Business Solution (EBS) Lead at Privy, reminded that digital format documents without legal validity are very risky for business actors, because certified electronic signatures are not just scanned signature images transferred to digital documents but have verified identities, through an encrypted system and clear audit trails.

Therefore, he assured that Privy as a digital signature service application can be a solution with several advantages. One of them is the availability of an Enterprise account that allows business actors to sign documents with Enterprise Affiliation, namely an electronic certificate directly linked to the company profile. “And it can manage the role of each employee based on their position under the company account,” said Verent.

Currently, Privy is trusted by more than 71 million verified individual users and 200,000 companies and institutions in Indonesia, consisting of various industries such as banking and multifinance, telecommunications, to health and education.