The Taxation Directorate General will increase the number of tax officers and tax service branches as part of the 2017 tax reform agenda.
he Taxation Directorate General will increase the number of tax officers and tax service branches (KPP) as part of the 2017 tax reform agenda.
Tax office reform team chairman Suryo Utomo said the number of tax officers had yet to be ideal as only 38,000 officers currently served 30 million registered taxpayers.
"We have received a lot of input, including from Chatib Basri [former finance minister], and we are calculating how many additional personnel are required to reach the optimum number," Suryo said at a tax amnesty update press conference at the tax office headquarter on Wednesday.
Previously, senior economist Chatib Basri said Indonesia, which has a population of 254 million, needed about 100,000 tax officers. Singapore, which has a 5 million population, has about 2,000 tax officers.
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Regarding the tax branches, Suryo said the directorate general had only a few branches outside Java. Some branches in Kalimantan have to handle vast areas.
"The span of control is too wide," he said.
Currently, the directorate general has 341 tax service branches. (dmr)
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