DIGIVESTASI - The Directorate General of Taxes of the Ministry of Finance, led by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, recorded revenue from the digital economy business sector of IDR 22.179 billion until February 29, 2024. Dwi Astuti, Director of Advisory Services and Public Affairs, said the amount came from Value Added Tax (VAT) levies.

Electronic System Trading (PMSE) IDR 18.15 trillion, Virtual Currency Tax IDR 539.72 billion, Fintech Tax (P2P Lending) IDR 1.82 trillion and taxes collected from other parties Goods and/or services through government procurement Procurement Transaction Information System (SIPP tax) amounted to IDR 1.67 trillion.  

Meanwhile, the government has appointed 167 PMSE economic officials as VAT collectors until February 2024. This number includes four appointments of PMSE VAT collectors and one change or change in PMSE VAT collector data. 

"In February 2024, the appointments are Tencent Cloud International Pte.Ltd. Ltd, Blacklane GmbH, Razer Online Pte Ltd, Social Online Payment Limited. The February 2024 correction is Coda Payments Pte.Ltd," he said in the official DGT report quoted on Monday (March 18, 2024). 

Of the total designated collectors, 153 PMSEs collected and remitted PMSE VAT worth Rs 18.15 trillion. 
The amount includes deposits of Rp 7.314 billion in 2020, deposits of Rs 3.900 billion in 2021, deposits of Rs 5.510 billion in 2022, deposits of Rs 6.760 billion in 2023, and deposits of Rs 6.760 billion in 2024. That comes from deposits amounting to Rp 1.24 trillion," Dwi said.

Dowi said that until February 2024, virtual currency tax revenue had reached Rp 539.72 billion. The revenue consisted of IDR 246.45 billion in 2022, IDR 220.83 billion in 2023, and IDR 72.44 billion in 2024. Virtual currency tax revenue amounted to IDR 254.53 billion in Income Tax revenue 22 from virtual currency sales transactions on the exchange and DN VAT revenue of IDR 285.19 billion from virtual currency purchase transactions on the exchange. 

Later, DGT noted that tax fintech (P2P lending) also contributed tax revenue of IDR 1.82 trillion in February 2024. Fintech tax revenue comes from revenue of IDR 446.4 billion in 2022, IDR 1.11 trillion in 2023, and IDR 259 billion. 35 billion in sales in 2024. "Fintech tax amounting to P23 on loan interest received from WPDN and BUT received from WPDN amounting to Rp596.1 billion, P26 on loan interest amounting to Rp219.72 billion from WPLN amounting to Rp999.5 billion Consists of DN VAT on fixed deposits equivalent to , "said Mrs. Bi. 

In addition, tax revenue for other digital economy companies comes from SIPP tax revenue. In February 2024, SIPP tax revenue reached Rp 1.67 trillion. SIPP tax revenue reached 402.38 billion rupiah in 2022, 1.1 trillion rupiah in 2023, and 151.27 billion rupiah in 2024. SIPP tax revenue consists of income tax of IDR 113.85 billion and VAT of IDR 1.56 billion.

In order to create economic justice and equality (level playing field) for both traditional and digital economic actors, the government will continue to appoint PMSE economic actors to sell products from abroad to Indonesian consumers, We will continue to provide digital services.

In addition, Dowi said the government could explore the possibility of other corporate tax revenues from the digital economy, such as crypto tax on crypto asset trading transactions, fintech tax on loan interest paid by borrowers, and SIPP tax on procurement. that he will continue to do so. Manage transactions of goods and/or services through the Government Procurement Information System.

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