Indonesia: No extension for filing taxes, says Sri Mulyani

• Apr 02, 2018

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has stressed that the government will not extend the period for filing tax returns (SPT), although there were complaints over problems with the e-filling facility on the final day on Saturday.

Sri Mulyani said in Jakarta on Saturday that the government had given taxpayers three months since January, which was plenty of time for them to file their tax returns, whether manually or electronically.

“No, there is no extension,” she responded to journalists as quoted by tribunnews.com on Sunday, saying that any extension would encourage taxpayers to always put off submitting their annual tax returns.

Taxpayers who missed the Mar. 31 deadline will subject to a fine of Rp 100,000 (US$7.27).

By the 11:59 p.m. deadline on Saturday, 10,589,648 taxpayers had submitted their returns, spokesman Hestu Yoga Saksama of the Directorate General of Taxation said, adding that 80 percent of all taxpayers had filed their tax returns electronically.

Hestu added that the volume of tax returns had rise by 14 percent from last year’s figure of 9,288,394.

Sri Mulyani said that one way to avoid any problems would be for taxpayers to file their returns long before the deadline to avoid overloading the servers. “I urge all taxpayers not to wait until the deadline. Next year, we will [run a public campaign] on this again,” she said. She also noted that the ministry would continue to improve its network capacity. (bbn)

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/04/02/no-extension-for-filing-taxes-says-sri-mulyani.html