Jakarta, July 15 -- Indonesia's Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) will soon appoint foreign-based marketplace platforms to collect income tax (Article 22) from Indonesian online sellers operating on those platforms.

"There are marketplace platforms in Singapore, China, Japan, and the U.S. where many Indonesian sellers operate. We can appoint them to collect Article 22 income tax at a rate of 0.5 percent," Hestu Yoga Saksama, DJP's Director of Taxation I, stated during a media event as quoted in Jakarta on Tuesday.

The DJP had implemented a similar measure in 2020, appointing foreign e-commerce platforms as Electronic System-Based Trade Operators (PPMSE) to collect value-added tax (VAT). Hence, DJP believes the same approach can be appl...