A prototype of SVG map of land and building tax objects in Indonesia
Sutanta, Heri and Sularno
The Directorate of Land and Building Tax, the Ministry of Finance has already created digital maps of most of the big cities in Indonesia. The aim was to build a GIS of land and building tax objects, and later to increase tax revenue. The systems, named as SIG-PBB, were put on the district level. SIG-PBB uses MapInfo and Oracle as its core software. Tax payers have no access to the systems, and they rely on the invoice letter from the directorate to know how much money they have to pay. The availability of extensive spatial and attribute data in the SIG-PBB were invaluable assets for the improvement of public services. The idea was to put the SIG-PBB on the internet and let the tax payers know in advance the amount of money to be paid to the government. The Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) was used as the file format of the prototype system.
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