Kedungkandang (malangkota.go.id) – Positive progress was shown by the Malang City Regional Tax Service Agency (BP2D) in the middle of the third quarter of 2017. With a target of Regional Original Income (PAD) from the tax sector of IDR 315 billion which is planned to be increased to IDR 352,5 billion in the Revised Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) for 2017, the average achievement has now reached above 78 percent.
Referring to data collected by BP2D Malang City until the second week of August 2017, the amount of budget that has been deposited into the regional treasury has reached IDR 238,3 billion.
A significant spike was seen in the Urban Land and Building Tax (PBB) sector whose due date ended on July 31. Its revenue so far has reached Rp53,79 billion from the target of Rp56,86 billion imposed, meaning that the achievement has reached 94,6 percent.
Significant results are also seen from the Restaurant Tax sector. With a target of Rp 38,47 billion, Rp 34,03 billion has been received, or 88,47 percent of the target. Meanwhile, from the Groundwater Tax sector with a target of Rp 600 million, Rp 468 million has been received, or 78 percent of the target.
From the Hotel Tax sector which has a target of Rp 30,68 billion, Rp 23,53 billion has been received. This means that the percentage of achievement of the target has reached 76,7 percent. Of that amount, the four-star hotel group contributed the most income in this sector with a value of around Rp 11 billion.
Turning to the Entertainment Tax sector which has a target of Rp 6,04 billion, revenue until mid-June has reached Rp 4,92 billion or a percentage of achievement of 81,47 percent. From this tax sector, the largest revenue comes from the film, cinema and VCD businesses which contributed Rp 2,2 billion in deposits.
For Advertising Tax, Rp14,2 billion has been received. This means that from the target of Rp19,17 billion for this year, 74,25 percent has been achieved. Then from the Street Lighting Tax which is targeted at Rp45,6 billion, Rp30,4 billion has been received, or 67 percent of the target achievement.
No less satisfying is the receipt from Parking Tax. With a target of Rp 4 billion, the receipt until mid-August has reached Rp 3,47 billion, or covering 86,9 percent of the achievement.
Meanwhile, from the Land and Building Acquisition Tax (BPHTB), so far the percentage of achievement has reached 64,7 percent. This is the result of revenue of Rp 73,4 billion from the target value of Rp 113,5 billion.
Looking at the trend of previous years, PAD deposits from the BPHTB sector may still increase at the end of the year due to the tendency of the community, aka Taxpayers (WP) to usually make transactions in the last quarter.
Meanwhile, from the recorded fine revenue until the middle of the third quarter of this year, there was a range of IDR 1,56 billion.
Thus, the total of nine types of regional taxes has entered the regional treasury by Rp240 billion. If calculated from the total target of Rp315 billion, it means that the shortfall that must be met is only Rp76,68 billion.
Seeing these indicators, Head of BP2D Malang City Ir. Ade Herawanto, MT is optimistic that the target of Rp 352,5 billion if the Revised APBD is ratified later, can be achieved by the end of the 2017 book. "It is even possible that before the end of the year it has exceeded the target," he said optimistically, Tuesday (15/8).
Ade's confidence is not without reason. Because, for the past four years, BP2D, formerly known as the Malang City Regional Revenue Service (Dispenda), has always been able to meet targets with satisfactory records, and even always exceed targets with progressive values.
"This means that we must continue to work hard to carry out intensification and extensification steps, and continue to map out potential that can still be explored. We will continue to push various innovations and breakthroughs until the end of this year," said Sam Ade d'Kross, his nickname.
The former Head of Public Relations of the Malang City Regional Secretariat did not forget to appreciate the high awareness of the Malang City community to fulfill their regional tax obligations.
"Thank you to all the citizens of Malang City, especially the Taxpayers who have consciously fulfilled their obligations. This further spurs us to further increase the productivity of performance and excellent service to the community," said the man who is also known as a musician and national sports figure. (say/yon)
