Kedungkandang (malangkota.go.id) – Various steps have been taken by the Malang City Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda) to increase Regional Original Income (PAD) from a number of tax sectors. Such as proactive efforts with outreach services to facilitate taxpayers or conducting inspections to taxpayer locations that are indicated to be in arrears or have differences in tax payments.
From the existing data, the revenue projection as of October 2023, the achievement of PAD 2023 for regional taxes is 58,56 percent, regional levies 68,22 percent, management of separated regional assets 22,11 percent and other legitimate PAD 82,13 percent. Referring to this data, various accelerations must be carried out, considering that it is currently approaching the end of the year.
Responding to this, the Head of the Malang City Bapenda, Handi Priyanto, when met on Thursday (26/10/2023) said that his party had made various breakthroughs to optimize revenue from the tax sector. Like a few days ago where his party carried out operations for three consecutive nights targeting a number of hotels.
This was done because he said that lately hotel occupancy has been very high and people have a hard time finding hotels, both on weekdays and weekends. "One easy way is to open a hotel booking application and type in need of 10 rooms, there definitely won't be any. From that step, we then compare it with the tax payments, it turns out it's not balanced," Handi added.
"It just so happened that during our operation yesterday, there was a member of the Audit Board of Indonesia (BPK) to check the compliance via e-Tax. So what we inspected was not the transaction on that day, but in the previous month, whether or not it was in accordance with the tax paid. Like this, a hotel officer said that he gave the wrong explanation. Occupancy is not 80 percent but 30 percent, we just allow it as long as it is true," he explained.
Handi further said that the cash register at the receptionist could not possibly lie, that is why the inspection team immediately conducted checks, including in several restaurants. Currently, checks are being carried out by Bapenda officers and those targeted during the operation are not all but those that indicate a difference between occupancy and the amount of tax paid to Bapenda.
"If there is a difference, a summons will be made for clarification, and if there is indeed incorrect data at Bapenda, please let the taxpayer submit the data," he said.
If there is no proper evidence, then it will be a bill. In accordance with the existing rules, namely regional regulations, from the difference multiplied by four, so in one location will get hundreds of millions of rupiah. For example, there is a difference of only IDR 25 million, if multiplied by four, it becomes IDR 100 million. Handi said that it is a calculation of one month, if two to three months just multiply it.
"This step is one of the efforts to increase revenue from the Other Regional Taxes (PDL), such as hotels, restaurants, Groundwater (ABT), parking, in addition Bapenda officers also do outreach," concluded Handi. (say/yon)
