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Greater Jakarta: City to relax boarding-house rules
JAKARTA: The city administration is looking to relax regulation of boarding houses in an attempt to increase the cityâs tax income
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AKARTA: The city administration is looking to relax regulation of boarding houses in an attempt to increase the city's tax income.
Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said at City Hall on Friday that the city administration would help boarding-house owners who wanted to legalize their businesses. 'We will even allow them to change the zoning,' he said.
In order to change the zoning, the city will propose a revision to the Detailed Spatial Planning Bylaw No. 01/2014 to the City Council.
Ahok said, however, that the owners would have to pay taxes if they legalized their business.
The Jakarta Tax Agency previously planned to collect data on boarding houses around the city. According to Bylaw No. 11/2010, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2011, a boarding house renting out more than 10 rooms is subject to a 10 percent hotel tax.
