December 30, 2025 | 04:13 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Directorate General of Taxes under the Ministry of Finance has appointed OpenAI OpCo LLC, the owner of ChatGPT, as a value-added tax (VAT) collector for digital trade. OpenAI was appointed as a digital tax collector along with two other companies, namely the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation and Bespin Global.
Digital VAT is applied to digital product or service transactions. Alongside appointing new digital collectors, the government also revoked the VAT collector status of Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l.
The Director of Information, Services, and Public Relations at the tax authority, Rosmauli, said the appointment of companies engaged in artificial intelligence (AI) shows the growing advantages to digital economy, "especially in supporting state revenues," she said in an official statement quoted on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
As of November, the Indonesian government has appointed 254 companies as digital VAT collectors, where 215 have successfully collected and deposited Rp34.54 trillion in total.
This amount consists of Rp731.4 billion in 2020, Rp3.9 trillion in 2021, Rp5.51 trillion in 2022, Rp6.76 trillion in 2023, Rp8.44 trillion in 2024, and Rp9.19 trillion thus far in 2025. In total, by the end of November 2025, the government recorded revenues of Rp44.5 trillion from the digital economy sector.
This comprises Rp34.54 trillion in digital VAT collection, tax on crypto assets of Rp1.81 trillion, tax on peer-to-peer lending or online loans of Rp4.27 trillion, and tax collected by other parties through the Government Procurement Information System (Tax SIPP) of Rp3.94 trillion.
Indonesia is committed to optimizing taxation in the digital sector in pursuit of a fair, simple, and effective tax system.
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