Taxing on pensioners

Taxing on pensioners

From Kompas

As a private employee I have submitted tax returns (SPT) for 20 years, despite my retirement. When I became a pensioner in April 1984, I requested the withdrawal of my taxpayer code number and exemption from my obligation to hand in SPT, only to be rejected.

It means, therefore, that I will have to submit annual tax returns until I die though no more income is earned. In fact, a tax information program on state-owned TVRI already indicated in 2003 that a retired employee due to old age is not obliged to pay tax.

At the age of 67 and without any other income, I do hope I can be exempted from outdated regulations still followed by the Directorate General of Taxation in this period of reform.

WILLY MULAWARMAN Jakarta