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View all search resultsTax blitz on evaders moving slowly, Purbaya seeks to secure Rp 20t by year-end
Based on the latest projections, the Finance Ministry expects to collect less than half of what the state had hoped to secure from tax evaders by the end of the year.
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Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa stands at the front of the press room before he provides a briefing to the press on Oct, 24, 2025, at the Finance Ministry in Central Jakarta. (JP/Deni Ghifari)
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he Finance Ministry has secured only a small portion of the eyed funds from tax evaders so far in 2025 and projects to collect less than half of what the state had hoped to collect from the violators by the end of the year.
Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa told reporters on Friday that the Tax Office had only collected Rp 8 trillion (US$478 million) so far from a total of around Rp 50 trillion to Rp 60 trillion the Finance Ministry targets from taxpayers who have failed to pay what they owe.
He said the ministry would “pursue” the total amount “slowly” and warned the evaders “not to mess around with us”, vowing to collect all the tax owed by some 200 violators composed of individual and institutional taxpayers, according to CNN Indonesia.
“Some have not paid the taxes in full, and we will approach them, we’ll come over, so they pay the taxes on time. There are a few hundred businesspeople that have not paid the taxes on time, and we’ll send them love letters, so they pay up,” Purbaya said at a press briefing at the ministry’s offices in Jakarta.
The minister said some of the violators could not pay the outstanding tax upfront and had to pay in installments. He had previously revealed that the cases of these evading taxpayers were subject to final and binding court rulings.
Sitting beside Purbaya at the briefing, Tax Director General Bimo Wijayanto said his office could collect a total of around Rp 20 trillion by year-end “because some of [the evaders] are having liquidity difficulty and are asking for an extension of debt restructuring”, according to CNBC Indonesia.
Rp 8 trillion marked a little progress from the Rp 7 trillion the tax blitz had yielded as per Oct. 8. The crackdown on evasion comes as total tax revenue in this year’s first nine months is down 4.4 percent year-on-year (yoy).
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