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Over 10 million individual tax returns submitted as of deadline day
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Taxpayers wait their turn to file their annual tax return at a tax office in South Jakarta before the deadline on March 31. (Antara/Hafidz Mubarak)
O
ver 10 million individual taxpayers had submitted their annual tax returns as of Saturday morning, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said.
The number is still below the Finance Ministry's target of 80 percent of the 18 million individual taxpayers that are subject to the annual tax return filing, which amounts to about 14.4 million.
"Up till today, we have received 10,051,101 individual tax returns," Sri Mulyani said after a visit to a Central Jakarta tax office on Saturday.
About 8.2 million of the tax returns were filed using the online e-filing system, while the remaining 1.8 million were filed manually.
"Today every tax office in Indonesia is open to receive individual tax return filing," the Finance Ministry's Director General of Taxation Robert Pakpahan said. "But you don't have to come to the tax office to file, it can also be done online."
Both Sri Mulyani and Robert acknowledged that there had been some network issues that made it difficult for some taxpayers to file their returns online.
Sri Mulyani said that one way to avoid such problems would be to file long before the deadline, to avoid overloading the servers.
"I urge all taxpayers not to wait until the deadline. Next year we will campaign about this again," she said, adding that the ministry would also continue to improve its network capacity.
Taxpayers who miss the deadline are subject to a fine of Rp 100,000 (US$7.27). (kmt/evi)
