If Jakarta only allowed vehicles with proper documents and up-to-date tax payments to drive on the streets, then we wouldn’t have this macet problem.
But the reality is Jakartans haven’t paid vehicle taxes on 3.4 million vehicles, which amounts to Rp 895 billion in tax arrears.
Most of them are motorcycles, which is to be expected.
“From 2010 to 2015, from a total of 6.1 million [registered] motorcycles, 3 million haven’t paid their taxes. The tax arrears [for motorcycles] totals Rp 395 billion,” said Andri Kunarso, head of Information Services and Tax Counseling at the Jakarta Tax Services Agency, as quoted by Warta Kota yesterday.
Meanwhile, from 2 million registered cars in Jakarta, 400,000 aren’t up to date with tax payments. This amounts to Rp 500 billion in tax arrears.In August, the provincial government and the Jakarta Police are going to set up checkpoints throughout the city to catch those vehicles with late tax payments. They will be instructed to pay any outstanding tax fees, but they won’t be sanctioned with any additional traffic fines.
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