Digital Tax is Optimized, Local Marketplaces are Involved

The government has appointed local marketplaces (lokapasar) as digital trade tax collectors. Taxes from this sector have the potential to rise significantly in 2023.

KOMPAS/PRIYOMBODO (PRI)

Activities at the JD.ID warehouse in the Marunda warehouse area, Bekasi, West Java, Friday (10/12/2021).

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The government will optimize tax collection from digital trade to boost tax revenue amid this year's economic slowdown. The coverage of the platform providers appointed as tax collectors is expanded to include not only foreign platforms such as those that have been in force, but also the domestic marketers.

The expansion of the collectors of value added tax through trade using the electronic system (PPN PMSE) is regulated in Government Regulation (PP) No. 44 of 2022 issued in early December 2022. The regulation is a derivative regulation from Law No. 7 of 2021 on the harmonization of tax regulations (HPP Law).