NusaBali.com reports that the Provincial Government of Bali is targeting Rp. 325 billion in revenues from the Rp. 150,000 per person paid in foreign tourist tax (PWA) in 2025. In 2024, Bali collected PWA revenues amounting to Rp. 318 billion despite the Province’s widely reported failure to efficiently collect the tax.
Bali’s Provincial Secretary Dewa Made Indra announced the PWA targets after a meeting with the National Ombudsman in Denpasar, Bali, on Thursday, 23 January 2024.
Dewa Made confirmed that through 31 December 2025, a total of Rp. 318.208.200.000 in PWA revenues were collected by purchasing 2,121,388 tax vouchers at Rp. 50,000 each.
Dewa Made continued: “The target set for the 2024 budget was Rp. 250 billion. So we exceeded the target.”
The Provincial administrators have been criticized for failing to optimize the collection of PWA from the Rp. 6.3 million foreign tourists who visited Bali in 2024. If 100% of all foreign visitors had paid the mandated Rp. 150,000 PWA fee, the total potential revenue would have totaled Rp. 945 billion – 297% higher than the actual tax revenue realized.
To quell criticism of provincial tax collectors, Dewa Indra explained that the PWA is a new policy in Bali that continues socialization and education. He is sure that, over time, the amount collected will increase.
He also explained that international events sponsored by the Central Governent in Bali are exempt from PWA payments. “Regional Regulation (Number 6 of 2023) regulates exemptions. During 2024, the Province received 2,133 applications for exemptions and rejected 1,207 others, including individuals and institutions,” explained Dewa Indra.
For 01-19 January 2025, PWA revenues of Rp 13,766,400,000 amount to around 0.04 percent of the 2025 target.
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