The Law No. 33/2004 states that every region 
has a regional regulation (Perda) under the central 
laws or even bound by the central law (Republik 
Indonesia, 2004). The municipal governmeny of 
Batam issued Perda No. 15/2001 concerning the 
regional tax of the municipal as an alternative 
financing for the government to implement regional 
autonomy (Pemerintah kota Batam, 2001). 
In the tax context, considering that Batam 
geographical area is an industrial city where the 
majority of the population is industrial workers, it 
requires entertainment place and facilites to reflect 
their mind. The subject of entertainment tax is an 
individual who enjoys entertainment and a business 
entity that organizes entertainment. Therefore the 
large number of residents both domiciled or regional 
and foreign tourists have a contribution in 
entertainment tax revenues. Even the municipal 
governmet itself wants the city to be placed not only 
for industrial side but also for tourist destination so 
that the increase in taxpayers, residents and tourists 
is a potential object for the municipal government to 
increase its local income.   The  size  of  the  central 
tax and regional tax revenues will be largely 
determined by the population (Musgrave in Lubis, 
2017). (Wardhono, Indrawati and Gema, 2012) In 
the results of Musgrave’s research, it was stated that 
one of the potential taxes is entertainment tax. 
"Taxes that are very potential are derived from the 
hotel and restaurant tax, entertainment tax, public 
street lighting tax and class C mining  tax". 
The municipal city of Batam  is also an area that 
is very close to Singapore and Malaysia. The high 
number of tourist visitors outside of  the region and 
abroad as well as the great number of people 
working in the city work requires entertainment 
faciliies and the tourism sector is expected to 
increase the city genuine income (PAD) from the 
entertainment tax sector. 
Macroeconomic stability is one of the important 
conditions for maintaining sustainable growth and 
achievement of development targets so that the 
inflation rate and per capita income also bring 
contribution in entertainment tax revenues. The 
inflation rate is one of the important components in 
influencing economic stability since inflation and 
income are related to the prices of basic and general 
goods. Inflation is a process of increasing prices that 
prevail in an economy (Sukirno, 2002). Therefore 
the public will be more inclined to choose to 
withhold financial expenses even for entertainment 
and travel if income and expenses are not balanced. 
The following data is the target and realization of 
the revenues from the entertainment tax in the 
municipal city of Batam for the year of 2015-2017. 
 
Table 1: Target & Realization Revenues of 
Municipal City of Batam in  2015-2017 
Year Realization   Target 
2015 14,959,000,000  17,471,447,712 
2016 20,645,400,000  19,995,079,994 
2017 24,608,000,000  23,806,496,302 
Source: Dispenda Kota Batam (2018) 
2  THEORICAL FRAMEWORK 
Local Tax  
The definition of tax  according to  Rochmat 
Sumitro in Darise (2009) is “the contribution of the 
people to the state treasury based on the law (which 
is forced) by not receiving reciprocal services 
(counter-achievements) which can be directly shown 
and used to pay for public expenditure” (Darise, 
2009). While Darwin in a book entitled “regional tax 
and regional retribution (2010)”, proposed the 
regional taxes in general are taxes  those are 
collected by the regions based on tax regulations 
stipulated by the regions for the benefit of local 
government household financing as public legal 
entities (Darwin, 2010). 
From the above mentioned definition, it can be 
concluded that regional taxes have these elements: 
obligatory contributions or coercion to the, indirect 
or reciprocal benefit for paying taxes and it used for 
public or public purposes. 
 
Entertainment Taxpayer 
Darise (2009) defines entertainment as all types of 
shows, games, dexterity games, and/or crowds with 
any name and form, which is watched or enjoyed by 
everyone with a fee, not including the use of 
facilities for exercise (Darise, 2009). In the local 
government regulation, Perda No. 7/2017 on article 
17/2 states that “entertainment taxpayers are 
individuals or bodies that organize 
entertainment”.The object of entertainment tax is 
entities or institution that organizes entertainment 
and picks up and or receives fees from the business 
(Pemerintah kota Batam, 2017). The Perda No. 
7/2017 furthermore states the entertainments ranging 
from film show; performances of art, music, dance; 
bodybuilding, and the like; exhibition; circus, 
acrobatics, and magic; billiard game; bowling game; 
horse racing/motorized vehicles; fitness center; 
sports match; fashion shows, beauty counters; 
discotheques, karaoke, night clubs, and the like; 
massage parlor, reflection, steam bath/spa; and 
dexterity game (Pemerintah kota Batam, 2017). 
 
 
 
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