Finance Minister reconfirms VAT rise to 12% 1st January 2025
Following press speculation of a 2024 VAT rise, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, has confirmed this week that the second-stage Value Added Tax increase from the current 11% to 12% will only come in January 2025. The Minister was defending the long-planned rise amide growing public criticism of the effect on prices for next year
As part of the original Tax Harmonisation Law 2021, VAT was scheduled to rise from 10% to 12% in two stages: 2022; and 2025.
April 2022: first stage 10% to 11% VAT increase completed as economy recovers from COVID-19
The increase in VAT is part of a set of reforms to broaden the tax base of southeast Asia’s largest economy. Despite ongoing COVID-19 pandemic issues, the economy grew in quarter 2 of 2021 for the first time in over a year. With some renewed confidence in consumer spending, the government had proposed the tax changes to the House of Representatives on 16 August 2021 as part of the 2022 budget.
Only Saudi Arabia and Nigeria have so far raised VAT rates in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Most other countries have temporarily reduced rates, particularly in the most hard hit sectors of tourism and hospitality.
Indonesia introduced Value Added Tax in 1984. There is registration threshold of IDR4.8billion, although there is scope for a voluntary VAT registration.
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