Domestic Revenues Down Until Early June

Jakarta, June 19 (Antara) - The ratio of domestic revenues to gross domestic product (GDP) in the year to early June fell from the same period last year, Deputy Finance Minister Anny Ratnawati said. "Domestic revenues until June 7, 2013 stood at 34.6 percent, down from 35.7 percent in the same period last year," she said after a press conference on the revised 2013 state budget here on Tuesday. Yet the amount is based on the 2013 state budget rather than the revised 2013 state budget, she said. She said tax receipts fell to 35.1 percent in 2013 from 37.1 percent in 2012, with domestic taxes declining to 35.3 percent from 36.5 percent and value added tax falling to 33.2 trillion from 35 percent year-on-year. The relatively high decline was seen from tax on international trade which dropped to 31.9 percent in 2013 from 49.9 percent in 2012, she said. Export tax stood at 19.7 percent, down from 50.7 percent in 2012 due to a global impact on export commodity prices. As a result, state revenues from export tax fell far short of the 2012 export tax receipts, she said. "The decline suggests that there has been a global factor affecting the prices of our export commodities," she said. However, import duties fell slightly to 46.2 percent in 2013 from 49.3 percent in 2012, she said. Non-tax state revenues in the year to early June reached 32.8 percent compared to 30.4 percent a year earlier.