UPH Business School & KPP Pratama Tigaraksa Introduce the Guide to Fill Out and Report the Yearly SPT (e-Filing) at UPH

As responsible citizens of Indonesia, we are obliged to support the country in many ways. One of them is by paying taxes. However, the issue these days is the lack of understanding and awareness of the people, especially when it comes to accessibility to reporting. Therefore, the authorities continue to promote how to report the tax revenue. To help overcome this issue, the Tax Center at the UPH Business School teamed up with Kantor Pelayanan Perpajakan (KPP) Pratama Tigaraksa, Direktorat Jenderal Pajak (DJP) Kanwil Banten, to hold an event to introduce the guide for filling out and reporting the yearly SPT (e-Filing) to the entire staff and lecturers of UPH. The event was held on 23 March 2015, at the MYC Multi Purpose Room, UPH, and was attended by approximately 80 participants.

E-filing is a reporting method of the yearly SPT PPh-income tax, completed electronically in real time on the internet. The presentation consisted of two sessions, which were a seminar, delivered by Sulistya Wibowo, the Head of Reduction, Objection, and Appeal DJP Kanwil Banten, and the tax reporting guide presentation, which was offered by 28 tax volunteers who were also students of UPH.

According to Yohanes Mardinata, UPH Tax Centre Officer, who is currently a taxation lecturer at the UPH Business School, said that the e-filing system is an innovation from DJP to help citizens in reporting their taxes. ?It used to be done manually, and then sent via post or sent directly to the tax office, so it was truly complicated. Now, with the e-filing system, everything becomes easier. So, no more reason not to report,? he explained.

This program was also supported by the Human Resource Department (HRD), UPH. According to Eva Tjen, Compensation Specialist for UPH, this training was really good at educating the students in the different aspects of the tax system and was also beneficial for the staff in reporting the SPT. Even more, with e-Filing, the reporting process becomes simpler and well-documented.?

Prior to this, a similar event was held at the Summarecon Digital Centre, Serpong. The accounting major students of UPH, who have been trained to be Tax Volunteers by KPP, participated in presenting information about taxation to the public. Approximately 2000 people were served by KPP and the volunteer students from 13-22 March, 2015.

UPH Accounting students was serving the assessables as Tax Volunteers 

The tax officer from KPP Pratama was explaining on how to do e-filing via smartphone

?We are greatly helped by UPH students who wanted to be the Tax Volunteers. They were really enthusiastic and care about the taxation problems. Hopefully this program will continue and be surely improved,?said Arif Hartono, the SectionHead of Taxation Exentification and Counseling of KPP Pratama Tigaraksa. (el)

Following is the testimony from a participant: 

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With e-filing, the SPT reporting is no longer conventional (hardcopy), but we have entered the digital era which is more practical, easily accessible, and online-based. This means the reporting is punctual, appropriate, and either free or at minimum cost if compared with the conventional method.   I met no difficulties accessing the website djponline.pajak.go.id because of the fact that the website is being developed and enhanced by the government, which made this an efficient and effective tool and simplifies the process for the Indonesian people to do their duties in reporting and paying taxes for the sake of Indonesia as a nation. So there are no more reasons, especially in urban areas in which information technology via internet takes place, not to report taxes from the income they get. The reporting proof also can be received in no time via the Internet network, through email.   As a suggestion, the Dirjen Pajak must anticipate that not all citizens understand how to use the information technology, especially the elderly or people who live in villages or other regions with no internet connections. Therefore, on the website, it needs a tool to print out the yearly SPT that has been reported because sometimes the print-out is needed to make a visa abroad.

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