Liputan6.com, jakarta – The regional income agency Jakarta (Bapenda), talking about the collection of taxes on sports. According to Bapenda Jakarta, the Patel is a sport that loves the community. Even to rent a field, residents should stand in line for a long time and pay expensive.
“Then why are you playing the Podel to pay taxes?” Bapenda Jakarta wrote in the press release on Friday (4/7/2025).
Responding to this, the head of Bapenda Jakarta, Lusiana Herawati, said that this was because the Padat was included in the taxes of entertainment, namely part of the local tax and in fact it was not a new type of tax. Because this type of tax has existed since 1997, in accordance with the Law of 19 of 1997.
Lusiana said that the tax is a form of mutual cooperation for citizens in financing the development and government of the state. According to him, regional tax facilities, as a rule, are the consumption of goods or services. There is no exception of entertainment, such as VAT collected by the central government.
“Entertainment is all types of glasses, performances, games and/or crowds that the audience uses by gathering.
Lusiana continued, the regional regulation of DKI Jakarta No. 13 dated 2010 with the amendments of the DKI JakArta Regulation No. 3 of 2015 mentioned several sports, which were taxed, tennis, squat, footsal and other sports in the form of entertainment games, became categories, affected taxes.
“Thus, in fact, the game of games for a long time is due to tax taxes, and there are no problems. Cool with a noise, ”he explained.
