Currently excise tax is one source of high enough state income with only three objects of taxable goods. Customs revenue in 2017 reached Rp 153.4 trillion from Rp 192 trillion in revenues from the Directorate General of Customs and Excise or about 11.4 percent of total state revenues.
It encourages government initiatives to increase state revenues from the excise sector by adding wearable objects. Plt Technical Director and Excise Facilities Nugroho Wahyu said that Indonesia is currently very likely to continue to extend the excise tax to various objects that meet the characteristics of taxable goods.
Looking at neighboring countries that successfully apply excise taxes to several objects, such as Thailand with 21 excise objects and Laos nine excise objects, Indonesia still has a high chance to add other taxable objects. "The main objective of the excise tax is not the acceptance, but the control of excisable goods in the community, while the revenue is only the effect of the excise duty," Nugroho said in a seminar entitled Improving Ratio of State Revenue to GDP through Excise Policy, Tuesday (3/7).
Economic observer Aviliani added that the imposition of excise also has intersection with some consumption of staple food, the idea of disease, and environmental sustainability. He added that Indonesia's three major diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, are closely linked to the high consumption of sugar and rice in Indonesia.
So also with the use of motor vehicles that are closely related to environmental sustainability. The Government may take consideration in the imposition given the impact it may have.
"As long as it does not disturb the community, we will definitely push it," said a member of House Commission XI Amir Uskara.
He hopes that in the future rules of excise can easily be established. "As long as we are transparent, the people will believe in the government, and our task is how to educate the community well so that all policies that the government makes can be well understood and executed in the future," said Nugroho.
