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Tax office’s payment card integration needs BI approval
The Directorate General of Taxation is waiting for approval from Bank Indonesia (BI) for the integration of its Kartin1 smart card system with banking payment cards, including credit and debit cards.
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Tax officials serve taxpayers at the Directorate General of Taxation in Jakarta. (JP/Anton Hermansyah)
The Directorate General of Taxation is waiting for approval from Bank Indonesia (BI) for the integration of its Kartin1 smart card system with banking payment cards, including credit and debit cards.
Kartin1 cards could hold 80 kilobytes of information and had been injected with taxpayer data, such as the holder’s tax identification number (NPWP), address and biometrics, said the tax office’s director of information and communication technology transformation, Iwan Djuniardi.
More information could be added in line with the increasing number of institutions joining the system, he added.
"Bank Mandiri and BNI are already interested in Kartin1 and have sent official letters to BI; however BI still wants to make a study, taking into account security aspects," Iwan said at a media briefing in Tanjung Pandan, Bangka Belitung Islands, on Monday.
The Health Care and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan) and the Workers Social Security Agency (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan) have agreed to join the system.
A portmanteau from 'Kartin1', the system is part of the tax office’s efforts to streamline taxpayer data. Iwan said one of the main problems at the tax office was a lack of personal data on taxpayers, but added that the tax office could not inject the data contained on Kartin1 into national electronic IDs (e-IDs).
"The capacity of the e-ID is too low at only 8 kB, leaving no space for additional data. Second, if you lose your e-ID, it takes a long time and complicated bureaucracy to get a new one, and third is the [aspect of] quality," he said. (bbn)
