Tax collection team formed

The West Jakarta administration has formed a special team to tackle the problem of huge arrears in property taxes in the mayoralty in the just concluded fiscal year, which totaled Rp 16billion (US$ 8million).

"The team's main task is to collect taxes from errant taxpayers," said Aritonang, the section head of administrative affairs at the mayor's office.

Aritonang said at least 247,245 taxpayers in the mayoralty had yet to pay their property taxes in the 1993/94 fiscal year, which ended in March.

Last year West Jakarta mayoralty administration received only Rp 17billion from property taxes of a target of Rp 33billion.

This year's target of revenue from property taxes for West Jakarta, set far below last year's figure, is Rp 25billion.

"Thus far we have collected Rp 5.2 billion," Aritonang said. (has)