building permits

Should one pay apart from tax when you buy land or lease it and pay tax on building permits also pay a yearly tax on those three. I get from some informative sources on the net the impression one should pay a yearly tax being assets, but when I ask around people deny it or say I should not...

Snarled traffic, city hotels and rubbish-strewn beaches are not images most associate with Bali. But this is increasingly the reality on the famous resort island, as rampant over-development and failing infrastructure threaten to destroy its fabled beauty. Growing alarm at the oversupply of...

Government officials yesterday raided more than 15 villas in Seminyak listed on Airbnb all of which had no licence to operate as a commercial business. A team of 15 investigators have been accumulating data for the past 7 months on 4000+ villas advertised on Airbnb operating across Bali in...

Just read this on the Bali Discovery site. "A Zone Defense Calls to Demolish Illegal Structures and Jail Those who Break Building Permit Regulations (11/3/2013) A member of a special legislative committee to examine problems and issues surrounding the issuance of Building Permits (IMB)...

Iam curious where do you find land available and who does it belong too, there seems to be many pitfalls to buying land and building everything i read seems to indicate you can, but it seems a lot of expats seem to have away around this how secure is that, i have read some horror stories, and...

Better make that, unchallenged by officialdom. My amateur video - HERE - shows the start of the building of a new Harris Hotel in Seminyak, Bali, despite the fact that building permits have been rejected, and that formal complaints and protests of all neighbours, including myself, (from whom...