Tax Chief Opens Option for Extension of Annual Tax Return Filing Deadline
Jakarta – Indonesia’s Director General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, Bimo Wijayanto, has opened the possibility of extending the filing period for annual tax returns (SPT) for individual taxpayers. The extension option was raised in light of the original filing deadline coinciding with the public holiday for Eid al-Fitr.
Wijayanto stated that an evaluation will be conducted approximately one week before Eid. If the filing trend graph demonstrates an upward movement, the reporting deadline will likely remain as scheduled.
“We’ll assess the situation one week before Eid. If the filing figures are trending upwards, the deadline for individual taxpayers will probably remain unchanged,” Wijayanto told reporters at the Dhanapala building in Central Jakarta on Tuesday, 10 March 2026.
Nevertheless, Wijayanto emphasised that contingency measures have already been prepared should an extension of the filing period become necessary.
He added that any such proposal would first be submitted to the Minister of Finance for approval before implementation.
“However, we are already prepared to take action depending on our level of confidence one week before Eid. I will then present this to the Minister to request authorisation,” he said.
For context, a total of 6,691,081 taxpayers had filed their annual tax returns as of 24:00 Western Indonesian Time on Monday, 9 March 2026. The majority of filings were submitted through the Tax Directorate General’s Coretax DJP system, whilst 5,216 returns were filed through the Coretax Form system.
According to records from the Directorate General of Taxes at the Ministry of Finance, the breakdown of individual taxpayers who had filed included 5,947,665 salaried employees and 595,835 self-employed individuals for the financial year from January to December 2025.
Additionally, 141,055 corporate annual tax returns had been filed in Indonesian rupiah, with a further 116 filed in United States dollars.
For taxpayers with different financial years, 1,173 corporate entities filed in rupiah with a further 21 filing in US dollars.