The Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) sent an e-mail blast to individual taxpayers suspected of deleting their Income Tax (PPh) withholding receipts when reporting their 2025 Annual Income Tax Returns (SPT).
Through the e-mail, DGT urged taxpayers to re-examine the conformity of the income data and withholding tax receipts that have been reported. This step is necessary to ensure that the submitted annual tax return reflects the taxpayer's true tax situation.
"DGT has sent an e-mail urging taxpayers who deleted their withholding tax receipts to recheck their tax data," as quoted from DGT's official website, Wednesday (November 11, 2026).
For context, the DGT's tax return reporting system (e-Filing) is currently equipped with a pre-populated feature, where tax withholding data from third parties will automatically appear. This indication of deletion is generally detected by the DGT system when taxpayers manually delete the withholding tax receipt data already available in the system.
Taxpayers who receive the notification are requested to review, verify, and cross-check the income data and withholding tax receipts that have been reported. If any income or tax information is found to be unlisted, causing the tax return not to reflect the actual condition, taxpayers are urged to immediately file an amended tax return.
More detailed procedures for the amendment have been conveyed by the DGT through the e-mail sent to the respective taxpayers. The amendment must be carried out in accordance with the provisions of tax laws and regulations.
DGT also reminds taxpayers to ensure that all income, tax credits, withholding tax receipts, and other tax information have been reported correctly, completely, and clearly. This is because filling out the tax return incorrectly, incompletely, or unclearly can result in sanctions under applicable regulations.
Beware of Fraudulent E-mails
In connection with this e-mail blast, DGT asks taxpayers to remain vigilant against potential fraud or phishing in the name of the tax authority.
DGT emphasizes that official e-mails sent by the institution use only the @pajak.go.id domain. Taxpayers need to verify the sender's address before following up on the received message contents.
In addition, all DGT services are free of charge. DGT never asks taxpayers to make payments to personal bank accounts, nor does it send links outside the official website. The tax authority also emphasizes that it never asks taxpayers for passwords, one-time password (OTP) codes, screen sharing, or other confidential information.
If further explanation is needed regarding this notification e-mail, taxpayers can contact the Account Representative (AR) at their registered Tax Office (Kantor Pelayanan Pajak/KPP), tax counselors, or helpdesk officers at the nearest KPP/KP2KP, as well as the official Kring Pajak channel at 1500200.
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Writer: Fiorentina Renata Trixie | Editor: Thomas Rizal
