Be Prepared, e-Commerce Actor will be subject to Tax

INDUSTRY.co.id - E-commerce business actors will be taxed. The tax regulation has been pocketed by the Directorate General of Taxation of the Ministry of Finance.

Director General of Taxes Ministry of Finance Ken Dwi jugia steadi said the tax rules that apply to digital economic players is contained in the regulation of finance minister (PMK). "This (PMK) has not been signed, it's been prepared," Ken said not long ago.

PMK related to e-commerce, Ken said, also became one of the efforts of the Directorate General of Tax pursuing 40% lack of tax revenue in 2017.

"Our strategy there is a new PMK in e-commerce, yes there is, but the tax is 10% baseball like this VAT, baseball," he added.

One that will be listed in the rule is the taxing scheme. Where, says Ken, the tax will be billed at the online market place aka shop.

"What he wears will be this company, the company appointed as the cutter, as Tokopedia, Lazada, continue if run overseas yes it is impossible, he wants to run abroad later there also Charged, there is AEoI, (exchange of financial data information automatically or Automatic Exchange of Information, "he said

For information, the Directorate General of Taxes recorded cumulative tax revenue from January to August only reached Rp 686 trillion or 53.5% of the target of APBN-P 2017 of Rp 1,283.6 trillion. The achievement is higher than the same period last year which reached 46% of the target.

The tax revenue consists of non-oil and gas PPh of Rp 378 trillion; Value Added Tax (VAT) and Sales Tax on Luxury Goods (PPnBM) of Rp 267 trillion; Land and Building Tax (PBB) of Rp 1.2 trillion; other taxes Rp 4.3 trillion; and oil and gas PPh amounting to Rp 35 trillion.