The Indonesian authorities has overhauled its taxation framework for the crypto asset business, introducing a sequence of revised insurance policies focusing on numerous crypto-related actions.
On Monday, Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance issued a number of regulatory updates, together with rules No. 50/2025 and No. 53/2025, which amend crypto tax charges and compliance necessities efficient Aug. 1.
Based on Reuters, the brand new framework has elevated the revenue tax on crypto asset gross sales made on home exchanges from 0.1% to 0.21%.
The brand new taxes are considerably greater for crypto gross sales made on overseas crypto exchanges, up from present 0.2% to 1%, the report famous.
Indonesian miners hit with greater taxes
Along with mountaineering the revenue tax, the brand new taxation framework have reportedly raised the value-added tax (VAT) for crypto asset miners from 1.1% to 2.2%.
Moreover, the ministry has eliminated a 0.1% particular revenue tax price on crypto mining, reportedly subjecting such revenue to both private revenue tax or company tax charges, efficient in 2026.
“Crypto Asset Miners who’ve been confirmed as taxable entrepreneurs […] are retail dealer taxable entrepreneurs,” the regulation 50/2025 reads. It provides:
“Crypto asset miners who don’t fulfill the provisions […] can be topic to sanctions as regulated within the common provisions and tax procedures regulation.”
Whereas growing the taxes for crypto miners and sellers, the ministry has exempted some crypto transactions from VAT.
Crypto transactions exempted from VAT
Based on regulation 50/2025, transfers of crypto property which might be “equated to securities” and should not topic to VAT.
Based on Reuters, the exemption targets patrons of crypto property, who’re now not topic to VAT. Underneath earlier guidelines, patrons had been reportedly required to pay a VAT of 0.11%-0.22%.
A neighborhood report from CNBC Indonesia detailed that the VAT price for crypto transactions has been faraway from regulation 53/2025, which eradicated articles 343 and 354.
“To supply authorized certainty for crypto asset buying and selling transactions and adapt to developments in crypto asset buying and selling, it’s needed to regulate tax provisions for crypto asset buying and selling transactions,” Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated within the doc.
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