Padang Tax Revenue Realization Reached 71.83 Percent

id Padang Tax Revenue Realization Reached 71.83 Percent

Padang Tax Revenue Realization Reached 71.83 Percent

Illustration. Hotel Tax. (cc)

Padang, (Antara Sumbar) - Realization of local tax revenue of Padang Municipality, West Sumatra until October 2017 reached 71.83 percent or Rp240.3 billion from the annual target of Rp334.5 billion.

"Local tax revenues up to October should have reached 83.32 percent, it means that another 11.49 percent must be fulfill until the end of this month, but if compared with last year's revenue in the same period it had increased," Head of Billing and Inspection Agency of Padang, Budi Payan stated in Padang, Monday.

According to him, local tax revenues that still have not reached the target due to several things, among others, the targeting factor that is not in accordance with plan and situation in the field, and also the factor of arrears in some types of local taxes.

Several types of local taxes still need to be improved in the pursuit of year-end targets namely, hotel taxes, billboards, ground water, non-metallic minerals and rocks, Land Acquisition Rights and Building Tax (BPHTB) as well as land and building taxes.

"Of the six types of local taxes, the type that need to be pursued is tax revenue from hotels and billboards," he said.

He said the acceptance of the two types of tax is still minimal, because there are arrears of payment on each taxpayer.

Local tax revenues until October 2017 includes the hotel realized Rp21.66 billion or 64.49 percent, and the restaurant realized Rp24.7 billion or 80 percent.

Then entertainment taxes realized Rp6.3 billion or 88.75 percent, billboards realized Rp6.1 billion or 60.40 percent, and street lighting tax (PPJ) realized Rp73.7 billion or 76.79 percent.

Furthermore, revenue from parking tax realized Rp1.7 billion or 85.67 percent, ground water tax realized Rp518 million or 57.93 pesren, swallow bird nest tax realized Rp3.7 million or 75 percent.

And non-metallic mineral and rock tax revenues realized Rp28.6 billion or 62.87, taxes BPHTB realized Rp35.5 billion 71.65 percent, and the UN realized Rp41.1 billion or 70 percent. (cha)

Editor: Vicha Faradika