The tax receipts will represent 70 percent of the overall state revenues this year, Director General of Taxation Fuad Rahmani said here on Friday.
He said he was optimistic the target can be achieved owing to the people`s growing awareness to pay taxes.
Head of the South, West and Southeast Sulawesi Provincial Office of the Directorate General of Taxation Angin Prayitno meanwhile said the people`s awareness to submit annual tax returns (SPT) in the three provinces was still low, with 61.79 percent of 610,661 registered taxpayers in 2009 submitting their annual tax returns.
He said tax receipts in three provinces in the year up to March 2010 reached Rp775 billion and rose to Rp942 billion in the same period this year compared to the target of Rp6.99 trillion for this year.
The tax receipts in the first three months of 2009 consisted of income tax on non-oil/non-gas commodities worth Rp470.8 billion, value added tax and luxury sale tax Rp285.2 billion and other taxes Rp15.5 billion.
In the year to March 2011, state revenues from income tax on non-oil/non-gas commodities increased to Rp579.1 billion, value added tax and luxury sale tax Rp343 billion and other taxes Rp16.7 billion.
Angin expressed optimism the target of tax receipts for 2011 could be achieved owing to the people`s growing awareness to pay taxes. (*)
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