TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Tax Director General of the Finance Ministry has prepared three new strategies to optimize the tax amnesty program, since the program will come to an end on March 31, 2017.
"We have implemented Article 18, a program to ease the access to the data of bank customers and a program that increases the level of services for taxpayers (WP)," said Tax Director General Ken Dwijugiasteadi on Monday, February 13, 2017.
Ken explained that the first step is to launch an application that enables users to reveal bank secrecy, which is called Akasia. This application is intended for internal use at the Finance Ministry to accelerate the process of submitting a proposal to the Finance Minister.
"We were actually able to reveal a taxpayer’s account intended either for investigative or billing [purposes], but it was manually done. It is now online and quicker," Ken said. According to him, the process would take up to 240 days if it was done manually, now it’s been cut down to 30 days.
The next strategy is the implementation of Article 28 of the Tax Amnesty Law for people that don’t participate in it, or participated but filed a bogus report. They will face a number of consequences.
Taxpayers that participate in the amnesty program, but didn’t report their whole asset will be given a tax increase of 200 percent for the unreported assets.
The third strategy, Ken says, is the improved service provided for taxpayers by providing an E-form facility. "Previously, you would have to fill the form while you're online, but now you can download the form to fill it offline before sending it back to us," Ken said.
Other than that Tax DG also provides a pre-populated service where the data that is obtained by the Tax DG already includes third party data such as employers and will automatically fill in the electronic Tax Returns, either if it’s e-filing or even e-form.
GHOIDA RAHMAH
