Selasa, 09 April 2013

Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo: "Tax Authority needs to take attention on 12 things"

Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) was asked to give attention to 12 matters. Those 12 matters are: (1) the tax receivable, (2) issues related to public accounting, (3) renegotiation on KK/PKP2B minerals and coal, (4) VAT policy optimization, (5) structuring the organization and working procedures, (6) general tax issues, (7) mining tax, (8) tax potential intensification among others through the national tax census, (9) optimizing the use of tax data, (10) Small Middle Economy (UKM) Tax, (11) Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), and (12) State Revenue Module.

This was revealed by the Minister of Finance Agus Dermawan Wintarto Martowardojo when he gave direction to the Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua regional officials of the Ministry of Finance during the evaluation gathering with the theme "2013 Priorities and Challenges" in Makassar, March 8, 2013.

In his direction, Agus expressed his appreciation and gratitude to the performance of the Papua and Maluku DGT Regional Office (RO), the North Celebes, Central Celebes, Gorontalo and North Maluku (Sulutenggo Malut) DGT RO, and the South Sulawesi, West and East (Sulselbartra) DGT RO.

According to Agus, the Indonesian economic growth is quite good even though the world is in crisis in the last five years with an average growth of 5.9 percent. Since the beginning of reform in 2012, Indonesia continued economic improvement and the international rating agency raised the Indonesia Investment grade after the last in 2007. Indonesia is now a member of the G-20 and ranked 16th world's major economy. "Our GDP gap is better than previous years. It decreases from 90 percent in 2007 to 24 percent in 2012. Indonesia is hailed by the world in the field of fiscal, investment, and the real sector," said Agus.


Despite improvements in the economy, Agus admitted that the global crisis gives impact on Indonesia, which is characterized by a deficit trade balance in 2012. "Commodity sales fell due within one year export has decreased while imports rose. Especially subsidized fuel imports rose sharply," cited Agus.


Although the tax and customs state revenue reach 980 trillion but Indonesia should remain cautious of fuel and electricity subsidies, which may results into primary balance deficit. "Over the last seven years the deficit in Indonesia was always 2 percent, compared with the U.S. and Japan, which are 4 to 8 percent. However if we are not careful, it could be far from realization. It is influenced by the exchange rate, oil lifting, and others," remarked Agus.

Agus welcomed cooperation between the DGT and Directorate of Customs in managing the bonded zone. "We must prepare for extra revenues optimization to increase revenues and expenditure savings. It is expected the realization in 2013 will be high with a budget spending of 18 trillion," said Agus.

In the same occasion earlier, the Head of the South Sulawesi, West and Southeast (Sulselbartra) DGT RO, Arfan stated that the Sulselbartra Regional Office tax revenue in 2010 to 2012 continue to rise. "Our major tax revenues comes from the construction sector, processing, and administration," said Arfan.

Whereas the tax revenue of the Papua and Maluku DGT RO is no longer rely on government treasurer spending but explore the potential of the private sector. "In 2013,the Papua and Maluku Regional Office sets up more tax revenue from the plantation, marine, and fishing sectors," said the Head of the Papua and Maluku DGT RO, Singal Sihombing.

In terms of the North Sulawesi, Central, Gorontalo and North Maluku (Sulutenggo Malut) tax revenue, Head of the Sulutenggo Malut DGT RO, Yoga Hestu said that the tax revenue of Sulutenggo Malut during the past two years almost reached 99 percent and continues to increase. "Sulutenggo Malut Regional Office will increase potential tax from the construction sector. There is one tax office which already oversees state budget tax payments through periodic and realtime system. It can monitor the tax payment by crosscheckingthrough the use of the NTPNsystem in the tax office,"said Hestu.

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