Has anyone else fallen fowl of the Kintamani Tourist Tax?
We went through there the other day and got stopped for 'tourist tax' 160,000!!! 6 of us in the car, made us pay for 5, I didn't have to pay as I was driving. Kitas holders with family. Even if you are just traveling through or not tourists, if you don't want to pay, you can take an alternative route! It seems this has been enforced for about a year and its absolutely outrageous. I then found out that many of our clients have also had to cough up this 'tax' when travelling through the area.
The other alternative we were offered was to pay 100,00 and not take a ticket. Well there's a surprise! So annoyed, who to write to? Like so many others, these punks are damaging tourism, something that most of this island not only survives on, but thrives on and dammed if I was going to put that sort of money in the pocket of these crooks working under the name of the community.
We went through there the other day and got stopped for 'tourist tax' 160,000!!! 6 of us in the car, made us pay for 5, I didn't have to pay as I was driving. Kitas holders with family. Even if you are just traveling through or not tourists, if you don't want to pay, you can take an alternative route! It seems this has been enforced for about a year and its absolutely outrageous. I then found out that many of our clients have also had to cough up this 'tax' when travelling through the area.
The other alternative we were offered was to pay 100,00 and not take a ticket. Well there's a surprise! So annoyed, who to write to? Like so many others, these punks are damaging tourism, something that most of this island not only survives on, but thrives on and dammed if I was going to put that sort of money in the pocket of these crooks working under the name of the community.
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