The Directorate General of Taxes ensures that the Coretax system will not be postponed but will be implemented in parallel, what does that mean?

    Director General of Taxation at the Ministry of Finance Suryo Utomo (center) accompanied by the Head of Commission XI of the People's Representative Council Muhammad Misbakhun (left) announced changes to the implementation of Coretax, the old system is still used to anticipate problems at the DPR building, Jakarta, February 10, 2024. Tempo/Ilona Esterina.

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    The Directorate General of Taxes of the Ministry of Finance has officially implemented a parallel system along with the implementation of the Core Tax Administration System (CoreTax). The decision was taken after a meeting between the Directorate General of Taxes and Commission XI of the House of Representatives yesterday.

    Since its implementation on January 1, 2025, CoreTax has received many complaints from individual and corporate taxpayers. The Director General or Director General of Taxes Suryo Utomo said that as a compromise, it was decided that there would be two systems running, namely the old system and CoreTax. 

"We are both consistent, the implementation of Coretax should not interfere with efforts to collect state revenue," said Suryo in a press conference after a meeting with Commission XI at the DPR, quoted on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

In the meeting, the DPR Commission XI had asked for the implementation of Coretax to be postponed. However, the results of the agreement from the meeting of about four hours decided that Coretax would remain in effect together with the old system. So that there are two tax reporting systems. The conclusion was confirmed by the chairman of Commission XI of the People's Representative Council, Mukhamad Misbakhun.

"Earlier we concluded that the Directorate General of Taxes is reusing the old taxation system, as an anticipation in mitigating the implementation of Coretax which is still being refined. So as not to disrupt the collectivity of tax revenues," he said.

Director of Counseling, Services, and Public Relations of the Directorate General of Taxes Dwi Astuti said that the two systems would run side by side, "the implementation of Coretax DJP (Directorate General of Taxes) is carried out in parallel with several legacy features before implementation," he said in an official statement, quoted Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

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The scenario includes service features that have been run in parallel, such as reporting annual tax returns before the 2025 tax year using e-submitting via the pajak.Pass.Identity page, and the use of the e-invoice computing device application for certain taxable entrepreneurs or PKP taxpayers in accordance with the decision of the Director General of Taxes.