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Indonesia: Jakarta to collect value-added tax from online food service

The Jakarta Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda) of Indonesia has planned to introduce a new policy on regional taxes and levies, which will impose a 10% value-added tax rate on online food services.
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Jakarta (VNA) – The Jakarta Regional Revenue Agency (Bapenda) of Indonesia has planned to introduce a new policy on regional taxes and levies, whichwill impose a 10% value-added tax rate ononline food services.

Head of Bapenda Lusiana Herawati said the tax policy for online food supplyand delivery services is appropriate and does not need further discussion, addingthat this has been stated in regional tax regulations.

Authorities arecurrently making statistics on online food stores and determining theproportion of this business activity in the economic sector to accuratelyforecast tax rates, Herawati said.

Bapenda will discuss tax collectionmechanisms with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Finance beforeactual application so as not to affect the business operations of stores, she added./.
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