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Maritime Tax Masterclass:
Insights, Idiosyncratic Challenges, Risks, and Cost-Efficient Compliance

Don’t miss the Maritime Tax Masterclass: Insights, Idiosyncratic Challenges, Risks, and Cost-Efficient Compliance. This two-day masterclass provides a structured and comprehensive understanding of Indonesia’s maritime tax environment and its unique challenges.

Join us on 28–29 January 2026 at The Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place Jakarta, led by Arfian Rizka Permana, an Indonesian tax specialist with more than thirteen years of experience at the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT).

This masterclass offers a comprehensive exploration of the maritime tax landscape, covering precision in maritime taxation, idiosyncratic tax challenges, transaction mapping, cross-border implications, compliance analytics, and cost-efficient maritime tax design.
Benefits of Attending the Maritime Tax Masterclass
Foundational Knowledge
  • Comprehensive understanding of Indonesia’s maritime tax landscape
  • Tax dispute data analytics, including an overtime analysis of maritime-sector cases
  • Insight into how small tax misinterpretations can escalate into major financial burdens
Technical Expertise: The Idiosyncratic Tax Challenges in the Maritime Sector
  • Mastery of key tax complexities in maritime activities, including final vs non-final income tax, exempt vs imposed VAT, and local vs central tax distinctions
  • Clear understanding of multitransaction tax structures in a single voyage, covering freight, towage, pilotage, bunkering, ship charters, and more
  • Knowledge of cross-border taxation rules for international shipping, foreign shipowners, and non-resident charterers
Data-driven Compliance Assessment & Risk Mitigation
  • Ability to utilize publicly accessible data (AIS, IHS Markit, company disclosures) to self-assess and elevate compliance
  • Identification of data-driven indicators that may trigger tax scrutiny
  • Recognition of common findings and disputes in tax treatment based on real audit and dispute outcomes
  • Skills to design documentation, transaction identification, and bookkeeping mechanisms that satisfy regulatory standards
Strategic Framework
  • Competence in building a maritime tax intelligence framework for continuous monitoring
  • Understanding of cost-saving mechanisms in maritime tax design
  • Capability to incorporate dispute learnings into SOPs to avoid repeat audit issue
Who Should Attend
  • Shipping companies
  • Shipowners
  • Charterers
  • Maritime logistics operators
  • Port service providers
  • Bunkering companies
  • Ship management companies
  • Marine service providers
  • Offshore service operators
  • Vessel operators
  • Marine transportation professionals
  • Maritime-focused finance and accounting professionals
Leader

Arfian Rizka Permana

Arfian Rizka Permana is an Indonesian tax specialist with more than thirteen years of experience at the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT). His professional journey reflects a solid blend of technical tax expertise, regulatory analysis, and dispute resolution, reinforced by extensive hands-on involvement in tax oversight, audit review, and policy impact evaluation.

Key Roles at DGT:
  • Account Representative
  • Tax Objection Reviewer (Penelaah Keberatan)
  • Financial Statement Analysis Trainer
  • Tax Regulation Analyst
Academic Background:
  • Master of Accounting (Forensic), Monash University (First Class Honours & 2024 Dean's Student Excellent Award)
  • Taxation foundations from Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara (STAN)
  • International training in Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination, West Virginia University
  • Various professional certifications from Indonesia's Ministry of Finance and DGT, including tax auditor certificate.
Beyond his professional responsibilities, Arfian is deeply committed to education and knowledge sharing. Since 2018, he has collaborated with Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia (IAI) as an academic tutor, professional speaker, and trainer in financial statement analysis. National Awards:
  • 2020 National Best Financial Statement Analysis Application Developer Award
  • 2018 National Best Account Representative Award
DAY 1
MARITIME SECTOR TAXATION: FOUNDATIONS, CHALLENGES, & RISKS
Session 1 | Why Maritime Taxation Requires Precision
  • Overview of Indonesia's maritime tax landscape
  • General overview of tax disputes in the shipping business
  • How small misinterpretations escalate into major financial burdens: an introduction
Session 2 | Understanding Idiosyncratic Tax Challenges in the Maritime Sector
  • Key tax types imposed on maritime activities
  • Gross-based taxes: opportunities, pitfalls, and corrected exposure
  • Mixed tax genres: Final vs Non-Final Income Tax, Exempt vs Imposed VAT, Domestic vs International Tax, and Local vs Central Tax
  • Interaction between central and local tax regimes
  • Multitransaction scenarios in a single voyage
  • Bookkeeping challenges arising from mixed tax treatment
  • How tax basis defines impact liabilities
  • Case study review (from actual audit and dispute outcomes)
Session 3 | Getting Deeper into Transaction Mapping for Every Voyage
  • A full walkthrough of transactions commonly taxed in maritime operations:
    • Freight, towage, pilotage, mooring, stevedoring
    • Bunkering, overseas repairs, ship charter structures
    • Distinguishing taxable vs non-taxable components
    • Why calculation and identification errors often occur at the documentation stage
Session 4 | A Closer Look at Cross-Border Transactions & Taxation
  • VAT and Income Tax rules for international shipping
  • Treatment of foreign shipowners and non-resident charterers
  • Overseas bunkering, dry-docking, and repair services
  • Documentary evidence required for cross-border tax positions
Session 5 | Deep Analysis of Gross-Based Tax Regimes to Minimize Disputes
  • Correct application of tax bases for VAT, Income Tax (PPh 21/22/23/26), Hotel Tax, and Heavy Equipment Tax
  • Identifying mismatches in tax basis definitions between commercial and tax perspectives
  • How incorrect transaction identification creates exposure
DAY 2
DATA ANALYTICS, COMPLIANCE STRATEGIES & COST-EFFICIENT TAX DESIGN IN THE MARITIME SECTOR
Session 6 | Tax Compliance Level Reflection Using Publicly Accessible Data
  • How publicly accessible and third-party data might reflect tax compliance:
    • AIS (Automatic Identification System)
    • IHS Markit vessel registry data (flag, GT, operator, owner)
    • Cross-checks with listed-company disclosures
  • Indicators that may signal potential tax compliance issues
Session 7 | Data-Driven Insight into Tax Oversight Processes for Improved Compliance
  • Understanding how inconsistencies are detected
  • Overview of commonly used datasets and methods to reflect compliance
  • Benchmarking against industry norms to gauge current compliance levels
  • Typical patterns observed in tax audit and dispute outcomes and how they can help improve compliance
  • Governance structures that minimize penalties and disputes
Session 8 | Practical Compliance Strategies & Cost Optimization
  • Designing tax documentation and bookkeeping for gross-based regimes
  • Cost-saving mechanisms in maritime tax design
  • Avoiding repeat audit issues through standardized processes
Session 9 | Final Integration: Building a Maritime Tax Intelligence Framework
  • Framework for continuous monitoring
  • Incorporating dispute learnings into SOPs
  • Tools and datasets to integrate into daily operations
Key Takeaways
Foundational Knowledge:
  • Comprehensive understanding of Indonesia's maritime tax landscape
  • Tax dispute data analytics; an overtime analysis of cases in maritime sector
  • How small tax misinterpretations can escalate into major financial burdens
Technical Expertise; the idiosyncratic tax challenges in maritime sector:
  • Mastery of key tax complexities in maritime activities:final vs non-final income tax, exempt vs imposed-VAT, and local vs central tax distinctions
  • Multitransaction tax structures in a Single Voyage: Mapping all maritime operations (freight, towage, pilotage, bunkering, ship charters, etc.)
  • Cross-border taxation rules for international shipping, foreign shipowners, and non-resident charterers
Data-driven Compliance Assessment & Risk Mitigation:
  • Using publicly accessible data (AIS, IHS Markit, company disclosures) to self-assess and improve tax compliance level
  • Data-driven identification of indicators that may trigger tax compliance scrutiny
  • Data-driven identification of common findings and disputes in tax treatment
  • Designing documentation, transaction identification, and bookkeeping mechanism that suffice the required standard
Strategic Framework:
  • Building a maritime tax intelligence framework for continuous monitoring
  • Cost-saving mechanisms in maritime tax design
  • Incorporating dispute learnings into SOPs to avoid repeat audit issues
Date

January 28-29, 2026

Investment
Rp.20,500,000.*/participant
*) Including Coffee break, Luncheon, Workshop materials *) Cancellation Fee : 7 days before the event : 80%
Venue

Ritz Carlton Pacific Place, Jakarta

Further Information

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Telephone: +62-21-2245-8787

Email: marketing@petromindo.com

*Please note that this is a draft program and subject to change prior to the conference.
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