Cell phone ( mobile phone ) high-tech , or smart phones ( smartphones ) will be subject to Sales Tax Luxury Goods ( GOODS ) .

Cell phone ( mobile phone ) high-tech , or smart phones ( smartphones ) will be subject to Sales Tax Luxury Goods ( GOODS ) .


Cell phone ( mobile phone ) high-tech , or smart phones ( smartphones ) will be subject to Sales Tax Luxury Goods ( GOODS ) . According to the Fiscal Policy Agency Acting Kapala ( BKF ) Finance Ministry Bambang Brodjonegoro , during this mobile smartphones categorized manifold is not a luxury .

When viewed from the type of goods , the smartphone is that it should be categorized as goods luxury goods . Therefore , all the components in the smartphone comes from imports .

As it will be categorized as luxury goods , then the Government will make a categorization of the smartphone . " It can be seen from the level of technology , such as in a car that uses CC , " Bambang said in Jakarta yesterday .

The government has plans to revise the Regulation on PPnBM . It 's to improve the trade balance deficit continues . With luxury sales tax rates apply between 125 percent to 150 percent , the expected number of imports can be suppressed smartphone . But He did not explain how the potential reduction of the deficit reduction in imports this smartphone .

Separately, Director of Marketing and Communications Erajaya Swasembada Tbk PT , Djatmiko Ward said it was a policy of the government , if it is applied to the imposition of sales tax on luxury . "Businesses still have to live , but there is the most important thing , that there are many black market ( black market ) , " he said .

According Djatmiko , black market mobile products is still rampant in Indonesia , and it is recognized by the government . " Concerns businesses fellow competitors not to compete but the black market of illegal products , " he said .

He pointed out if the phone is officially worth Rp 3 million per unit then the illegal phone around Rp2 , 7 million . Well , if the application PPnBM about 10-20 percent the price of mobile phones on the market officially around Rp3 , 5 million so that the difference amounted to 800,000 . " Consumers will be tempted to use a smartphone product of black market because the price difference very much , " he said .

So , to compensate for the luxury sales policy , further Djatmiko , the government must ensure the circulation could decrease the number of illegal mobile phones significantly new PPnBM apply .