Spasi-id.com. Recently, the government has officially announced an additional pay tax rate to 12 percent from next year. This decision was passed on by Minister of Permanent Field Coordinator, Hartarto Airlanga.
He explained that this 12 percent of PPN rise corresponds to the 7-year-2021 Act of Taxation Harmonization. This move was taken to support development financing and improve fiscal balance in the midst of global economic challenges.
"According to this HPP bill's mandate, according to the schedule that the PPN set next year will go up 12 percent per January 1, 2025," airlangga in a press conference, quoted VIVA Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Advertisements Ads end in 20 X's More, Airlangga adds even though PPN goes up to 12 percent, there are goods that people need excluded from this rise.
"The stuff this society needs, the PPN is given a facility or 0 percent," it adds up.
As for the PPN-free goods, rice, meat, eggs, milk, vegetables, sugar consumption, education services, general transportation, financial services, polio vaccine, and water use.
For the record, there's been an increase in PPN value to increase the income of the state to fund the development program, such as infrastructure, education and health.
As a result, this decision was made by citizens on social media. Some of them commented on the concerns of the impacts of the PPN rise on the price of the principal needs and the power of public purchases.
12 percent PPN Warganet response
"Remember yes sir must be a necessity or a item whose category is plentier and luxurious," write a reporter in a comment that uploads about the PPN rise on social media.
"Please, once it's official, the government has made a solution related to this decision for especially medium-lower society," the other branch drops in comment.
With a large enough public reaction on social media, the government seems to have to face a challenge to convince the public that this policy is truly for the common good. (viva)
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