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The retirement visa comes with a kitas. If you have a kitas, you have to pay the new fiskal at the airport. The stated intention of the new fiskal is to 'motivate' the one with the kitas to get a Tax Number (a friend with a social visa was just told by immigration/tax people at the airport that...

When bambang mentioned his "colleagues at the World Bank", I googled in "world bank indonesia" and found the following article: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/17/content_10671932.htm On Jan. 9th or 16th, 2009, just two weeks after the 250% fiskal increase took effect with 3 working...

Dr Deepak "Labelling the Indonesian government insensitive and impolite, diagnosably insane and capable of doing any wrong against you says more about you than it does about Indonesia." Bambang, as much as I appreciate your forthrightness, please do not put words like this into my mouth I did...

Absolutely marvelous letter FreoGirl with brilliant clarity and chockful of practical information I have been looking for. My sincere thanks to you very much. I am in kind of shock about all of this. No one told us we would be incurring all-of-this. The visa agent didn't tell us. The visa...

A Retirement Visa is not allowed to work or earn money in Indonesia. Therefore, why is a Tax Number required to pay tax on income which cannot be earned? They sprung this surprise without taking retirement visas into consideration or else they plan to begin taxing the retirement pensions of...

There is discussion already in the Forum about the Fiskal Tax but most of it is just a repeat of what was said in the newspapers and almost none of it was specific to retirement visa. That is why this is a separate thread. When it came time to re-new our retirement visa last October, we...

For weeks now I have been trying to find out if retirement visa has to pay the new draconian fiskal tax. My visa lady doesn't know and the tax people she consulted are unsure. Another visa agent said yes you do because you have a kitas and anybody with a kitas has to pay. He also said if I...

As of April 2, 2008, I have this banking question also. I have Euro and Rupiah accounts at BNI and I asked for debit card. Oh, yeah, they said, make a one hour trip and come down here and pick it up. After half an hour of confusion, I figured out what they mean by debit card cannot be used on...