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20 May 2024: Legal Overview on Tapera (Tabungan Perumahan Rakyat), the "Citizen's Saving for Housing"

On 20 May 2024, Indonesia promulgated the Government Regulation Number 21 Year 2024 on the Amendment of Government Regulation Number 25 Year 2020 on the Implementation of Citizen's Saving for Housing (Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 21 Tahun 2024 tentang Perubahan atas Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 25 Tahun 2020 tentang Penyelenggaraan Tabungan Perumahan Rakyat) , commonly called as the " Tapera " . Referring to its definition, in principle, Tapera is a saving, conducted periodically by the "Participant", that can be utilized only for financing the housing and/or can be returned along with its yield resulted after the one's participation is ended. As stipulated in Article 15 of the Tapera regulation, the "Saving" rate has been set at 3% (three percent) of the "Salary" or "Wage" towards the "Employee Participant" (0.5% by the Employer and 2.5% by the Employee), and of the "Income" towards the "Independent Worker...

Summary on Indonesia Tax Amnesty (Law No.11 of 2016)


Any Tax Payer shall be entitled to Tax Amnesty which will be granted through the disclosure of its Property in the Statement Letter (letter submitted by the Tax Payer to disclose its Property, Debt, net value of its Property, and the calculation and the payment of Compensation Money), excluding for the Tax Payer under the investigation, the completed investigation files for pre-criminal charges, court proceedings, and criminal conviction within the scope of tax. Tax Amnesty comprises of tax obligations in the scope of Income Tax, and Value Added Tax or Sales Tax on Luxury Goods.

Tariff of Compensation Money (a sum of money paid to the state treasury fund in order to attain Tax Amnesty) upon Tax Payer’s Property either located beyond or within the jurisdiction of Indonesia that repatriated and invested within the jurisdiction of Indonesia for a period of 3 years since the said repatriation, shall be:

-              2% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter in the first month until the end of third month, starting from the effective date of this Law;

-          3% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter in the fourth month until 31 December 2016, starting from the effective date of this Law;

-          5% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter starting from 1 January 2017 until 31 March 2017.

Tariff of Compensation Money upon Tax Payer’s Property that located beyond the jurisdiction of Indonesia and that is not repatriated into the jurisdiction of Indonesia, shall be:

-          4% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter in the first month until the end of third month, starting from the effective date of this Law;

-          6% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter in the fourth month until 31 December 2016, starting from the effective date of this Law;

-          10% for the period of the submission of Statement Letter starting from 1 January 2017 until 31 March 2017.

Tariff of Compensation Money for the Tax Payer whose circulation money of its business is up to the amount of 4.8 billion Rupiah as of the Latest Fiscal Year, shall be:

-          0,5% for the Tax Payer who disclose the value of Property that up to 10 billion Rupiah in the Statement Letter; or

-          2% for the Tax Payer who disclose the value of Property that over than 10 billion Rupiah in the Statement Letter,

for the period of the submission of Statement Letter in the first month of the effective date of this Law until 31 March 2017.

The amount of Compensation Money shall be calculated by way of multiplying the tariff as mentioned above with the net value of Property which has never or not yet completely been reported in the Latest Income Tax Annual-Report (SPT PPh Terakhir).

In the event of the value of (additional) Property is under the foreign currency, its value shall be stated in Rupiah based on nominal value of Property in the form of cash, or the appropriate value at the end of Latest Fiscal Year for the Property value aside from cash.

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