Costs & Taxes

Water Blow in Nusa Dua, Bali

Bali Land Taxes: Who Pays What, and Under Which Article

Two plots in our own catalogue. A hundred are of freehold in Nusa Dua at Rp 26,000,000,000. Seven are of leasehold in Kutuh at Rp 2,275,000,000 for twenty-five years. The freehold is eleven times the money — and it carries the lighter tax burden, measured against what is paid. That is not how the market describes it. "Land tax" in Indonesia is four taxes under three instruments, each naming a different...

Pandawa beach with the carved statues in the cliff wall, Bali

What It Costs to Build a Villa on Land You Buy in Bali

Most people researching a Bali villa start with the build cost and treat the land as a detail. On the Bukit the arithmetic runs the other way round: the land is usually the larger number, sometimes by a factor of five. This page works through both halves with real plot prices from our own catalogue, and is honest about which construction figures can be trusted and which cannot. Why the published...