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Govt to chase SMEs in second round of tax amnesty
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Gearing up – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (left) talks with Ken Dwijugeasteadi (right) prior to a meeting on the tax amnesty program at the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Sept. 29. (Antara/Puspa Perwitasari)
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he Finance Ministry’s directorate general of taxation has said it will focus its attention on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the second round of the government’s tax amnesty program, which starts on Oct.1 and ends in late December.
The tax office further says that taxpayers who have not participated in the program will be approached and invited to participate.
“We want to chase SMEs and taxpayers who did not participate in the first round of tax amnesty, including prominent tax payers," the tax office’s director general Ken Dwijugeasteadi said in Jakarta on Monday.
He said around 368,000 taxpayers participated in the first round of the program, which began on July 1 and ran until the end of September. This figure is relatively small compared to the number of taxpayers who should have participated in the program, he went on to say.
Ken further said that 68,500 out of those 368,000 taxpayers were SMEs.
This figure, he said, was far lower than the number of SMEs registered at the tax office. It is believed that many SMEs do not have tax identification numbers.
Ken said his office would coordinate with the Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry to encourage SMEs to participate in the program.
There are more than 50 million SMEs in Indonesia, accounting for around 60 percent of the country's economy and 99 percent of its workforce. (ebf)
