JAKARTA: The tax office will launch an investigation into the data and documents of Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Twitter in Singapore, looking for any tax liabilities that the four digital giants have not paid to the country.
Jakarta Tax Office head Muhammad Hanif said the office must thoroughly scrutinize the records of those companies not only from data provided by their Indonesia-based representatives, but also their records in other countries to find the exact amount of the Indonesia-based contribution to their income.
“We will check the data with Singaporean companies,” he said as reported by kontan.com on Sunday, adding that the income of those companies from their Indonesian clients was subject to income tax.
In the near future, Hanif continued, top management personnel from Google Asia Pacific, which is based in Singapore, would visit Indonesia to hand over the billing data of their Indonesian clients.
The four tech-giants have not paid a penny to the Indonesia tax office since they first began operations in the country. Opening representative offices in Indonesia has so far been their strategy to avoid paying taxes here.
