Jakarta, May 25 -- The Directorate General of Taxes under the Indonesian Ministry of Finance has recently removed the tech giant OpenAI - the developer of ChatGPT - from the list of value-added tax (VAT) collectors for e-commerce. The agency has been making adjustments to the list throughout April 2026, with two new entries, HashiCorp, Inc. and Perplexity AI, Inc. It said this measure is part of an administrative adjustment, without detailing the reason behind OpenAI's removal. Following the latest update, Indonesia now has a total of 264 digital economy companies designated as VAT collectors for e-commerce transactions. As of April 30, 232 companies had fulfilled their tax collection obligations, with total VAT revenue reaching approxima...