Tax Chief Reveals Potential State Losses of IDR 140 Billion Due to Export Manipulation

Key Points

• The DGT has discovered potential state losses of IDR 140 billion due to the practice of under-invoicing exports of CPO derivative products through the manipulation of “Fatty Matter” labels.
• A total of 25 taxpayers involved, with a total reported export value of IDR 2.08 trillion, are currently under investigation by the DGT.
• Preliminary evidence checks have been conducted on four companies—PT MMS, PT LPMS, PT LPMT, and PT SUNN—to verify the accuracy of transaction values and tax compliance.

Jakarta – The Directorate General of Taxes (DJP) of the Ministry of Finance has discovered a potential loss of state revenue of around IDR 140 billion due to under-invoicing practices between the values stated in export documents and the actual prices of exported palm oil derivative products.

Director General of Taxes Bimo Wijayanto said that this under-invoicing was carried out by misusing the export label for fatty matter.

Bimo said that based on the DGT’s analysis in 2025, 25 taxpayers were found to have reported exports of Fatty Matter with a total export goods notification (PEB) value of Rp2.08 trillion, which is still under investigation.

“We detected that in 2025, there were around 25 taxpayers involved in exports who used the same modus operandi. Our estimate is that the total transactions of these 25 parties amounted to around Rp2.08 trillion. Therefore, we estimate the potential state loss from taxes to be around Rp140 billion,” said Bimo when met at Tanjung Priok on Thursday, November 6, 2025.

Currently, said Bimo, his office is conducting a preliminary investigation (bukper) of PT MMS and its three affiliated companies, namely PT LPMS, PT LPMT, and PT SUNN. This investigation is being conducted to verify the accuracy of the data, the appropriateness of the transaction values, and compliance with tax obligations in accordance with applicable regulations.

“So the import duty could be 10 times higher than what is suspected to be underinvoiced. Of course, from a tax perspective, when we recalculate the tax liability owed to the state, it would also be significantly reduced. If the HS Code recognized is not the actual one for the exported goods,” he explained. (*) 

Editor: Galih Pratama