Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo revealed, the Directorate General of Taxation Ministry of Finance is actively following up on taxes receivable. He said the amount of their tax collection continues to increase and has also been identified. ‘ve always monitored that if associated with a large tax receivables are receivables from income taxes (income tax) and value added tax (VAT), also the United Nations (property tax). And, this is being actively followed up by the Directorate General of Taxes.
According to Agus, Directorate General of Taxation has received a commitment from all staff that the staff of the tax will further carry out the functions with high integrity. Moreover, whistle-blower system in the ministry was formed. So, if there are inputs associated with a tax official who is less (or) who do not properly reported to the whistle-blower system.
He also requested that taxpayers who have not fulfilled its obligation to promptly solve them. For this, the Tax Office has been asked to speak to the taxpayer is problematic. “We will ask their awareness of the obligation to immediately pay the taxes. Then if they do not carry out, we’ll remind you. If you do not want to be reminded, we’ll announce the names in the media who do not meet their tax obligations,” said Agus.
If the announcements in the media are also unreliable, ban on taxpayer will be done abroad. Forced body will be made if the taxpayer still will not fulfill its obligations.
About the nominal, according to data from the Directorate General of Tax, total tax receivable until June 2011 reached Rp 72.3 trillion, increased by Rp 18.3 trillion from Rp 54 trillion at the end of 2010. Meanwhile, tax revenue to date has already reached 81 percent.
The government will not allow the tax receivable until the end of June 2011 which has reached Rp 72.3 trillion, to be forfeited due to expire. It is possible, after the Directorate General of Taxation in cooperation with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to prevent the expiration of tax receivables.
Billing is done Tax Office Service and the Office of the Directorate General of Taxation is directed to the delinquent taxpayers. At the same time, billing persuasively also is done by calling or consulting services to delinquent taxpayers to settle their tax debts.
Billing is active, a series of law enforcement activities conducted Directorate General of Taxation. It includes a data search activities through an external data source, blocking of accounts delinquent taxpayers, do cease-and-desist (ban) against delinquent taxpayers, and forced the action agency (gijzeling) against delinquent taxpayers with certain conditions.
To sharpen the billing, the Directorate General of Taxation also being perfected Data Information System National Tax Receivables, which allows no control over the development of the tax receivable data across tax service offices throughout Indonesia. With this system, the tax receivable that will enter the expiry date can be known and anticipated early on.
Meanwhile, the value of taxes receivable which expire until June 2011 reached Rp 4.5 trillion, an increase over the position in December 2010 which reached USD 2.6 trillion. Taxes receivable are categorized expires, if during the five years cannot be billed.
Regarding the case of expiry of tax receivables, the Corruption Eradication Commission of the policy highlights the Ministry of Finance in setting the expiration of tax receivables. Field of Prevention of Vice Chairman of KPK, Haryono Umar, said the tax receivable that otherwise expired cannot be billed, so the potential to cause losses to the state.
After not afford (to collect tax receivables), government (MoF) and then cited a tax expired. As a result, the tax cannot be billed and the country suffered the loss of potential tax losses.
A potential loss due to expired state tax receivable was big enough. In 2010 taxes uncollectible receivables reached Rp 2.6 trillion. Now the Ministry of Finance has reserved the potential of expired tax of Rp 9.4 trillion, which means if it means there is a plan to expire reserved. Should receivables are collected.
Responding to such conditions, the Commission has sent a letter to the MoF that contains a warning not to let it just evaporate tax receivables. MoF could have actually foreclosed assets of the company in lieu of unpaid taxes.
Related to corporate tax arrears, the previous Commission to acknowledge the 14 foreign companies engaged in oil and gas sector (oil and gas) are delinquent taxes. KPK has also urged the MoF to collect tax receivables of the company.