The Indonesian government has updated tax policies for the crypto industry, which raises levies to merchants and miners while eliminating the tax amounts (VAT) for consumers.
On Monday, Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance released many regulation updates, including regulations No. 50/2025 And no. 53/2025which changes in crypto tax rates and effectiveness requirements on August 1st.
According to Reuters, the new plot is increased The income tax on crypto asset sales made at domestic exchanges from 0.1% to 0.21%.
The new taxes are significantly higher for crypto sales made in foreign crypto exchanges, from current 0.2% to 1%, the report noted.
Indonesia’s miners hit the higher tax
In addition to income tax walking, the new tax framework has been reported to raise VAT for crypto miners from 1.1% to 2.2%.
In addition, the ministry removed a 0.1% special crypto mining income tax rate, which has been reported undergoing such income in either personal tax tax or corporate tax rates, effective in 2026.
“Crypto asset miners who have been confirmed as taxpayers (…) are taxable businessmen,” the regulation of 50/2025. It adds:
“Crypto asset miners who are not fulfilling provisions (…) will be subject to sanctions such as regulation of general provisions and law in tax procedures.”
While increasing taxes for miners and crypto sellers, the ministry has set up some crypto transactions from VAT.
Crypto transactions have been to be exempted from VAT
According to regulation 50/2025, the transfer of crypto assets “equivalent to security” and not subject to VAT.
According to Reuters, exemption targets consumers of crypto assets, which are no longer subject to VAT. Under previous policies, consumers have been reported to be required to pay a VAT of 0.11%–0.22%.
A local report from CNBC Indonesia detailed that the VAT rate for crypto transactions was removed from regulation 53/2025, which removed articles 343 and 354.
“To provide legal certainty for crypto asset trading transactions and adapt to crypto asset trade developments, it is necessary to fix tax provisions for crypto asset trading transactions,” said financial minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati the document.
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