Unknown Dewi listed as largest taxpayer
Unknown Dewi listed as largest taxpayer
JAKARTA (JP): Sinta Dewi Sampoerna of the East Java-based
Sampoerna Group surprisingly topped the list of the 200 largest
individual taxpayers in 1993, surpassing tycoon Soedono Salim,
the chairman of the Salim Group.
On the corporate level, the state-owned telecommunication
companies, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) and PT Indosat,
were listed as the first and second largest corporate tax payers.
Minister of Finance Mar'ie Muhammad announced Saturday evening
that Salim, popularly known as Liem Sioe Liong and highest on the
list in 1992, now ranks second.
The announcement of Dewi Sampoerna as the largest taxpayer
came as quite a surprise. Not only is she a new entry on the
taxpayer list but her business activities are quite limited
compared to the other entries.
"Don't ask me the reason why there is a change in the
composition of the 10 largest tax payers and why some people are
in the highest bracket," said the minister told regarding the 200
largest individual taxpayers.
Mar'ie said the names of the largest individual taxpayers
were determined according to the amount of their income tax
payments as written in their tax returns.
"Our tax payment system is based on self-assessment. We have
to believe it," he said when questioned about Dewi Sampoerna's
rank.
Prajogo Pangestu, the chairman of the Barito Pacific Group who
was previously ranked 16th, took third place. Anthoni Salim, the
son of Soedono Salim, previously third, ranked fourth and
Mohammad (Bob) Hasan, previously in eighth place, came in fifth.
Putera Sampoerna, Dewi's elder brother was in sixth place,
much higher than the 17th position he held previously, while
Usman Admadjaja, the chairman of Danamon Bank, ranked seventh, as
compared to the 13th position he took previously. Andree Halim, a
close relative of Soedono Salim comes in eighth, far lower than
the fourth place he reached in 1992.
Louis A. Clinton, an executive from the Irian Jaya-based
Freeport, is in 10th place.
President Soeharto's youngest son Hutomo Mandala Putra, who is
more popularly called Tommy, took a higher position in ninth
place, compared to his 21st place previously. His brother Bambang
Trihatmodjo, previously 38th, is now in 11th place, while his
eldest brother Sigit Harjojudanto S, previously 30th, now hold a
higher position at 23rd. Siti Hediati, one of President
Soeharto's daughters, is ranked 169th.
Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, the President's eldest daughter, did
not appear in the list of the 200 largest individual tax payers
as before. Her husband Indra Rukmana, however, climbed a few
positions, now in 34th compared to 42nd previously.
The other largest taxpayers included Ciputra, the chairman of
the Ciputra Group, who was in 15th (as compared to 25th
previously), The Ning King, the chairman of the Argo Manunggal
Group, in 16th (39th), Mochtar Riyadi, the chairman of the Lippo
Group, in 17th (83rd), Henry Pribadi of the Napan Group, in 18th
(12th), Ibrahim Risjad, an executive of the Indocement Group, in
21st (5th), Sjamsul Nursalim of Bank Dagang Nasional Indonesia in
22.
Probosutedjo, the chairman of the Garmak Group ranks 25th
(70th) and Sudwikatmono an executive of Indocement Group in 26th
(7th). Edwin Soeryadjaya, a former executive of the dissolved
Bank Summa, came in 30th, and his father William Soeryadjaya was
in the 52nd position.
Djuhar Sutanto, also an executive of the Indocement Group,
ranks 38th (2nd), Jakob Oetama, the chief editor of the Kompas
daily, in 78th (135th), Sukamdani S. Gitosardjono, the chairman
of the Sahid Group, in 79th (87th), Tanri Abeng, the president of
the Bakri Group was 87th, Rudy Ramli, the president of Bank Bali,
92nd, Faisal Abda'oe, the president of the state oil company
Pertamina, in 95th place, Burhan Uray, the president of the
Djajanti Group, in 97th, Aburizal Bakrie, the chairman of the
Bakrie Group, is 99th and Subronto Laras, the president of the
Indo Mobil Group, ranks 106th.
Corporate
State-owned Telkom topped the list of the 200 largest
corporate taxpayers in 1993, after taking second position in
1992.
Indosat, the provider of international telecommunications
services now listed on the New York and Jakarta stock exchanges,
dropped from first place in 1992 to second in 1993.
Third place was held by the East Java-based cigarette producer
PT Gudang Garam, advancing from sixth position in 1992, while
fourth and fifth place were held by state-owned Bank Negara
Indonesia and Bank Dagang Negara. Sixth place was held by Ekspor
Impor Indonesia.
The state-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga, the new
comer on the largest taxpayer list, was 7th, and Hanjaya Mandala
Sampoerna, a cigarette producer in East Java, ranks 8th, much
better than 32nd place in 1992.
The 9th and 10th positions were filled by the publicly listed
Bank International Indonesia and by the state-owned surveying
company PT Sucofindo, which respectively ranked 11th and 16th in
the previous year.
Tax Director General Fuad Bawazier, who accompanied the
minister of finance during the announcement of 1993's largest
taxpayers, admitted that the high ranks did not fully reflect the
sizes of the taxpayers' businesses but rather the size of their
incomes.
"The people who sold assets or made big transactions probably
paid higher taxes than the richer ones," Fuad said.
Both Mar'ie and Fuad did not elaborate on the amount of income
tax paid by each of the largest taxpayers.
The finance minister said that the total of the income taxes
paid by the corporate taxpayers in Indonesia in 1993 reached Rp
9.83 trillion (US$4.57 billion), of which Rp 3.99 trillion, or
around 30.4 percent, was contributed by the 200 largest corporate
taxpayers.
Mar'ie said that the portion coming from the 200 largest
corporate taxpayers in 1993 was lower than the 38.1 percent share
in the previous year, due primarily to the widening of the
corporate tax base.
The total income taxes paid by individuals in 1993 reached Rp
4.6 trillion ($2.13 billion), of which Rp 167.37 billion, or 3.6
percent, was paid by the 200 largest individual taxpayers, he
said. (hen)