Tax Office Expects 2 Million New Taxpayers
The Finance Ministry is expecting to register an additional two million taxpayers this year, courtesy of a “sunset policy” campaign that is part of an intensified effort to encourage more people to pay taxes .
Darmin Nasution, director general of tax at the Ministry of Finance, explained that the sunset policy allows people to register for a new tax identification number until Dec. 31, 2008, without being sanctioned for not having done so previously. The policy also means that the tax office will not chase any unpaid taxes.
“I can’t really give the exact figure, but for this year, it is likely that we’ll get 2 million people,” Darmin told reporters on the sidelines of an event at the Finance Ministry that gathered the country’s top individual taxpayers.
Darmin said last year’s efforts managed to register 1 million new taxpayers.
The country of 220 million people only had around 6 million registered individual taxpayers as of 2007.
Darmin said there are at least 30,000 “big individual tax payers” in Indonesia, but as this was based on self-reporting, the number could not be considered accurate.
Darmin Nasution, director general of tax at the Ministry of Finance, explained that the sunset policy allows people to register for a new tax identification number until Dec. 31, 2008, without being sanctioned for not having done so previously. The policy also means that the tax office will not chase any unpaid taxes.
“I can’t really give the exact figure, but for this year, it is likely that we’ll get 2 million people,” Darmin told reporters on the sidelines of an event at the Finance Ministry that gathered the country’s top individual taxpayers.
Darmin said last year’s efforts managed to register 1 million new taxpayers.
The country of 220 million people only had around 6 million registered individual taxpayers as of 2007.
Darmin said there are at least 30,000 “big individual tax payers” in Indonesia, but as this was based on self-reporting, the number could not be considered accurate.