KITAP/KITAS

    My name is Istvan. i LIVING HERE FOR 2 1/2 YEARS ON BALI.
I have to renew my KITAS TO KITAP in June i wonder why sponsors asking so much for KITAS or KITAP.
If i go to immigration and arrange it by myself it will be much cheaper, so i am always asking to myself why they earn so much????????

Istvan
   

    -@istvantan2552

You can't go to immigration without a sponsor.

There you have it. They can charge crazy prices, so they do

@Fred

I find it not good I find it crazy !

There must be control for this

Not a lot outside your ability to shop around.

How much are they asking for?

I dont understand. I did all myself  without agent

@Fred

Hello Fred, if I may ask, anybody can be a sponsor as long as he/she is Indonesian, or does it have to be somebody specific?

Many thanks for your advice and kind regards, Beatrice

Hi guys,

you talked about two different issues.

You NEED a sponsor. That can be a husband / wife, a friend, a company, or an agent. It's your choice.

The agent grabs money for sponsorship, and for the imigrasi service. Huge money.

Better do all the imigrasi stuff by your own, even that takes a lot of time, but safes you a lot of bucks. And it doesn't matter where you flatten your butt waiting. In imigrasi office, or on your couch. But you wait.

@Harald54 Thank you. But I think that Indonesia is very greedy with income tax (30%!!) so I will look in another country.

Terimakasi baniak!

    @Harald54 Thank you. But I think that Indonesia is very greedy with income tax (30%!!) so I will look in another country.Terimakasi baniak!        -@Beatrice BWM

Only if your income in this country is over 5 billion.

It starts at 5%

@Fred Thank you very much to take time to reply to me, I really do appreciate. Would you happen to know if there is a website I could look into as I've been looking around and they all seem to say different things... Perhaps I should go directly to the Embassy here...

@Fred  But how about if I am retired however with quite a few billions..?

    @Fred  But how about if I am retired however with quite a few billions..?
   

    -@Beatrice BWM

Is it taxable in Indonesia?

There's a better than avaerage chance it isn't

    @Fred  But how about if I am retired however with quite a few billions..?        -@Beatrice BWM

Interesting question. So I'm a UK citizen. I am a higher rate tax payer. If I spend a certain amount of time as an expat overseas I do not pay UK tax. Of course if I am working in an overseas country I am liable as a resident to pay taxes due there. American citizens are subject to income tax the world over but this can often be offset due to bilateral treaties between the relevant countries.

What I think Beatrice is asking, as a non US citizen, is if her (unearned) income emanates from outside Indonesia i.e pension, stock dividends etc, would she be liable to Indonesian tax?