The irony of

The irony of
tax reporting

Amid the intense government campaign through its taxation
institution to encourage all citizens to possess taxpayer code
numbers (NPWP) and submit their annual tax returns (SPT), still
there is a foreign investment company, PT OPC (NPWP: 1-081-598-3-
407), which refuses to give up my income tax withholding
certificate (form 1721-A1/2001) in spite of two written requests
to the firm for this purpose.

As a consequence, I have had to hand in a request for the
postponement of my submission of SPT-2001 (form 1770), to the Tax
Service of Jatinegara, Jakarta, and at the same time another
letter for the assistance of the Director of Tax Audit and
Investigation in securing the said tax withholding evidence.

This reality is indeed ironical and constitutes a challenge to
the personnel of the Directorate General of Taxation to take
further action in connection with the difficulty caused by the
firm to its employee already having a personal NPWP.

TIRTA P.

Jakarta