Purbaya to improve Coretax system to address SPT reporting jockeying practices

Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa stated that he will soon improve the Coretax system to tackle the practice of jockeying in reporting annual tax notifications (SPT) by taxpayers, as widely offered on social media. According to him, the emergence of jockeys is inseparable from loopholes in the tax system, which are then exploited by certain parties. “In economics, if there’s an opportunity, someone will enter it. But going forward, we will fix it so that Coretax no longer requires jockeys,” said Purbaya in Jakarta on Monday. He explained that the Coretax design has weaknesses, making the platform less user-friendly for the general public, which in turn creates opportunities for intermediaries in the form of jockeys who bridge users with the web-based tax service system. “It turns out it was designed to be somewhat difficult for ordinary people to use, so there are jockeys or software interfaces that can connect Coretax with ordinary people,” Purbaya stated. He said that for now, the time is too short to overhaul the tax service system in that one platform. Moreover, it has been less than a month since he became aware of the issue. The Coretax jockey phenomenon is rampant on social media. Several accounts on the Threads platform openly offer services for filing annual tax notifications (SPT) for taxpayers, even at relatively cheap rates. These accounts generally target taxpayers who face difficulties in using the Coretax system. As is known, the Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) recorded that as of 5 April 2025, the number of taxpayers who have activated Coretax accounts reached 17,710,824. Of that number, 16,643,707 are individual taxpayers, 976,261 corporate taxpayers, 90,629 government agency taxpayers, and 227 electronic system trading taxpayers (PMSE).