Tax & legal help

The guide's tax headline for Bali is a single scheme line — “Foreign remote income untaxed” — attached to the Remote Worker visa, alongside property tax (PBB) at about 0.1–0.3% of assessed value and no local income tax. Land comes with its own legal shape: the guide's numbers page notes that foreigners lease (Hak Pakai) rather than own. Beyond those lines the guide is advice-heavy, budgeting for tax and estate advice and pointing readers to Peraturan.go.id for the law itself.

The headline scheme: foreign remote income untaxed

The guide lists among its “schemes that attract expats”: “Foreign remote income untaxed.” Its remote-work section states the same point for the specific route it belongs to: the Remote Worker (E33G) visa, one year, foreign income untaxed, on $60k/yr of foreign income. The site data carries both lines identically.

Only that scope is claimed here. The guide gives no conditions, definitions, registration steps or time limits for the untaxed treatment, and it does not extend the statement to pension income or to other visa routes — so neither does this page.

Property and local taxes — and the land rule — the guide does state

Property tax (PBB): ~0.1–0.3% of assessed value — the guide's “Taxes (property)” line, matched exactly in the site data. Note the base is assessed value in the guide's own wording.

Local income tax: none. The guide's line is simply “None” for local income tax. It gives no national income-tax bands or rates beyond the remote-income line above, so this page publishes none.

Land, from the same numbers page: rural land is listed at $10,000–40,000 rural, and foreigners lease (Hak Pakai) rather than own. Neither source gives Hak Pakai lease terms, durations or costs. At the guide's rate of $1 ≈ Rp16900, rupiah-denominated values convert at roughly that rate for planning.

The other schemes the guide names

Alongside the remote-income line, the guide's schemes list is short: the Remote Worker visa, the Second Home visa, and the Retirement KITAS from 55. Their sourced figures live on the Visa page — $60k/yr foreign income for the E33G, ~$130k in an Indonesian bank for the 5–10-year Second Home visa, and ~$1,500/mo pension in the retirement text. Beyond those figures the schemes are named without administering detail in either source, so they are flagged here as leads to research — starting from the official legislation source below — rather than described in detail this page cannot source. (The retirement-age wording across the sources is inconsistent — see the Visa and Retirement pages.)

U.S. expats: the obligations the guide actually covers

Be clear about what this guide does not do: it contains no U.S. filing rules — no mention of U.S. returns, foreign-account reporting, exclusions or credits — and the site data adds none. What the guide does, consistently, is budget and prompt for advice at the points where U.S. obligations bite:

• Before you become resident — the Luxury timeline takes “tax structuring advice before you become resident,” and the Mid-range checklist includes “tax advice taken on residency timing.”
• For retirees — a $1,100 line for tax and estate advice covering double-taxation, pension treatment and wills, plus checklist advice on your tax residency date and the pension treaty.
• Official U.S. channel — the guide lists the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia among its official sources, and the Retirement checklist includes registering with the embassy or consulate.

That is the sourced position: take advice before residency, especially on double-taxation and pension treatment. Anything more specific about U.S. obligations would be unsourced here.

Legal and residency basics, with the official sources

The guide's official-law entry point is Peraturan.go.id, the Indonesian legislation portal, listed with its URL in the guide and the site data; the site data also links a Wikipedia law overview from the country page. Everyday legal basics the guide does state: Bali drives on the left, foreigners lease land (Hak Pakai) rather than own, and after a move the settle stage includes registering your address and opening a bank account. For retirees, the checklist adds preparing a local will and power of attorney. The guide's own closing disclaimer applies to this whole page: figures were current at publication in 2026, tax rules and visa schemes change, and the guide is not legal, immigration or financial advice — verify against the official sources before you rely on them.

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