Indonesia Scraps OpenAI from Digital VAT Collector List

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Directorate General of Taxes under the Ministry of Finance has removed the tech giant OpenAI—the developer of ChatGPT—from the list of value-added tax (VAT) collectors for e-commerce. This was announced in an official statement on Thursday, May 21, 2026.

The Taxes DG has been making adjustments to the list throughout April 2026, with two new entries, HashiCorp, Inc. and Perplexity AI, Inc.

The agency said this measure is part of an administrative adjustment, without detailing the reason behind OpenAI's removal.

"The revocation against OpenAI LLC is part of the administrative adjustment," as stated in the official Taxes DG release quoted from Sunday, May 24, 2026.

Thus, until April 2026, a total of 264 e-commerce actors are registered as VAT collectors. As of April 30, 2026, out of all appointed collectors, 232 have collected VAT amounting to Rp39.94 trillion.

In total, tax revenue from the digital economic sector until April 30, 2026 reached Rp52.04 trillion. This digital tax is derived from the e-commerce VAT collection, crypto tax, peer-to-peer lending fintech tax, and tax from procurement transactions of goods and services through the government procurement information system (SIPP tax).

In addition to e-commerce VAT, revenue also comes from crypto taxes, amounting to Rp2.03 trillion, while fintech taxes have contributed Rp4.88 trillion in tax revenue. Meanwhile, tax revenue from SIPP Tax has reached Rp5.18 trillion.

The Director of Tax Dissemination, Services, and Public Relations, Inge Diana Rismawanti, said this revenue trend indicates good performance amidst the adjustment of e-commerce collector data. "This development indicates the expanding tax base of the digital economy and the increasing compliance awareness of business players," she said.

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