Kedungkandang (malangkota.go.id) – Positive progress was shown by the Malang City Regional Tax Service Agency (BP2D) at the end 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 92,6 percent.
Referring to data collected by BP2D until the end of last September, the amount of budget that has been deposited into the regional treasury has reached IDR 291,7 billion.
A significant spike was seen in the Urban Land and Building Tax (PBB) sector, which expired on July 31. Its revenue so far has reached Rp55,7 billion. From the target of Rp56,86 billion imposed, this means that the achievement has reached 98 percent.
Significant results are also seen from the Restaurant Tax sector. With a target of Rp 38,47 billion, Rp 40,2 billion has been received, or exceeded the target (104,5%). Likewise, from the Groundwater Tax sector with a target of Rp 600 million, Rp 612 million has been received or an achievement of 102 percent.
From the Hotel Tax sector which has a target of Rp 30,68 billion, Rp 30 billion has been received. This means that the percentage of achievement of the target has reached 98,11 percent. Of that amount, the four-star hotel group contributed the most income in this sector with a value of around Rp 14 billion.
Moving on to the Entertainment Tax sector which has a target of Rp 6,04 billion, revenue until the end of last September has reached Rp 5,82 billion or a percentage of achievement of up to 96,4 percent. From this tax sector, the largest revenue comes from the film, cinema and VCD businesses which contributed Rp 2,7 billion in deposits.
For Advertising Tax, Rp16,8 billion has been received. This means that from the target of Rp19,17 billion for this year, 87,5 percent has been achieved. Then from the Street Lighting Tax which is targeted at Rp45,6 billion, Rp39,7 billion has been received, or 86,9 percent of the target achievement.
No less satisfying is the receipt of Parking Tax. With a target of Rp 4 billion, receipts until the end of the third quarter have reached Rp 3,98 billion, or covering 99,7 percent of the achievement.
Meanwhile, from the Land and Building Acquisition Tax (BPHTB), so far the percentage of achievement has reached 86,9 percent. This is the result of revenue of Rp 98,7 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 public, aka Taxpayers (WP), to make transactions in the last quarter.
Looking at the indicators, the 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 will have exceeded the target," he said optimistically, Monday (9/10).
Ade's confidence is not without reason. Because, for the past four years, BP2D, formerly known as the 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, as he is familiarly called.
Although there were comments and opinions that the target was exceeded due to poor planning, Ade firmly denied this.
"In accordance with the direction of the auditors of the BPK (Supreme Audit Board, ed.) of the Republic of Indonesia and the BPK Representative Office of East Java who have been our working partners, that the determination of targets must go through scientific studies according to the rules and must be accountable. Therefore, we have engaged independent consultants in the framework of the target research study according to the Regulation of the Minister of Home Affairs (Permendagri) of the Republic of Indonesia Number 33 of 2017 concerning Guidelines for the Preparation of Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budgets," he explained.
The former Head of Public Relations of the Malang City Regional Secretariat did not forget to express his appreciation for the awareness of the people of Malang City to fulfill their regional tax obligations.
"Thank you to all residents of Malang City, especially Taxpayers who have consciously fulfilled their obligations. This further spurs us to further improve the productivity of performance and excellent service to the community," he said again.
Appreciation was also conveyed by the Mayor of Malang, H. Moch. Anton. According to him, the high level of public awareness in paying taxes directly has positive implications for the community itself.
"Because the receipt of tax money also serves the interests of the people of Malang City. Which will later be returned in the form of programs and development projects to advance Malang City and for the prosperity of the Bumi Arema community and support the program to realize a Dignified Malang City," explained Abah Anton, as he is familiarly called.
The number one person in the Malang City Government then gave an example of the form of the program and development in question, all for the sake of the greatest possible regional development and the prosperity of its citizens.
"So the infrastructure of roads, bridges, drainage to the construction of city parks, even the education sector and social assistance are funded from tax money paid by the people of Malang City," concluded Abah. (say/yon)
