Ilomata International Journal of Tax & Accounting
P-ISSN: 2714-9838; E-ISSN: 2714-9846
Volume 2, Issue 4 October 2021
Page No. 304-312
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Compliance Level of Annual
SPT Reporting for Individual Taxpayers at the Pondok Aren
Tax Service Office, South Tangerang City
Ambarwati
1
, Indra Sumarna Sobari
2
, Rudi Kristanto
3
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Indonesia Institut Ilmu Sosial dan Manajemen STIAMI
Jakarta, Indonesia
Correspondent: ambaryusuf26@gmail.com
1
, indra@stiami.ac.id
2
, rudikristanto@stiami.ac.id
3
Received : August 08, 2021
Accepted : August 25, 2021
Published : October 31, 2021
Citation: Ambarwati., Sobari, I.S., Kristanto, R.
(2021). The Impact of the COVID-19
Pandemic on the Compliance Level of Annual
SPT Reporting for Individual Taxpayers at the
Pondok Aren Tax Service Office, South
Tangerang City. Ilomata International Journal
of Tax & Accounting 2(4),304-312.
https://doi.org/10.52728/ijtc.v2i4.369
ABSTRACT: Indonesia has recorded a total of 1,626,812
positive cases of covid 19, 44,172 people died, recovered
1,481,449 people (last update: April 22, 2021; data source
www.Covid19.go.id). The outbreak of the coronavirus or
Covid-19 that hit the whole world, Indonesia was also
affected by changes in the economy becoming unstable,
causing the wheels of business to be hampered or even some
have stopped their activities for the next few days. The impact
experienced by all taxpayers throughout the country is
affected, at least it is enough to make activities in this country
not conducive. The decline in the level of the Indonesian
economy experienced a very significant decline. The
government's policy in fighting this epidemic must be
supported from all aspects and levels of society, in line with
the government's policy of the Directorate General of Taxes
(DGT) of the Ministry of Finance providing relaxation in the
form of simplifying the submission of documents for
completing annual notification letters or SPT, in conditions
of the Covid-19 pandemic This relaxation is provided for
corporate taxpayers and individual taxpayers. The low tax
revenue due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is a
consequence that the government must accept. This study is
to find out whether there is an influence on understanding
tax regulations, the method used in this study uses a
quantitative method based on tax rates and the principle of
justice on mandatory compliance, the impact of the Covid 19
Pandemic disaster on the level of compliance with the annual
SPT reporting of individual and corporate taxpayers. The
Utilization of Information Technology significantly affects
taxpayer compliance.
Keywords: Covid 19 Pandemic ; Impact ; SPT Reporting
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INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected tax revenues for all countries in the world, this is a
challenge for countries that have targeted an increase in tax revenues in the 2021fiscal year.
(Brodeur et al., 2021; Thomson et al., 2021). The government was forced indirectly to correct tax