Taxation Directorate Opens More Offices to Pursue Individual Taxpayers

The Directorate General of Taxation will be more aggressive in pursuing individual taxpayers following the personal income tax (PPh) revenue target of Rp 12 trillion this year, a 6.86 percent rise from last year's realization of Rp 11.23 trillion. The Directorate General of Taxation's Director of Services, Counseling, and Public Relations Hestu Yoga Saksama told Kontan on Monday (1/20) that the tax authority would run regional-based supervision, mainly to capture non-employee individual taxpayers who have not been registered in the system or had been registered but are not sufficiently compliant to pay taxes.

The Directorate General of Taxation plans to add 18 new tax service offices (KPP), including Primary KPP in East Java. Thus, they can explore the tax potential of individual taxpayers more thoroughly. For individual taxpayers living abroad, the tax authority will utilize the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) data from the collaboration with 98 countries, as well as personal financial account data and information with a minimum balance of Rp 1 billion.