No one was more surprised to learn that Dimas Prayitno owned a Rolls-Royce than the 21-year-old Indonesian himself, who was baffled when told he owed $15,000 in taxes on the luxury vehicle.

But a look at the construction worker’s home in a rundown neighborhood quickly convinced officials that Prayitno was the latest victim of tax evasion by one of Jakarta’s wealthy elite.

Rampant tax dodging costs Indonesia billions of dollars in lost revenue annually and it has taken on a renewed urgency as Jakarta moves to pass a raft of bills aimed at revving up Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and adding millions of poor to the middle class.

“I was shocked and asked them ‘what car’?” Prayitno told AFP about his visit from tax officials.

“How could I afford a car when you see me living in a house like this?”

Prayitno — whose top pay is about 150,000 rupiah ($10) a day — later learned he’d been duped by a former boss who took his government ID card ostensibly for a legitimate purpose.

But instead, the employer registered his luxury car in Prayitno’s name to dodge taxes.

About 350 Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and other top-end cars in Indonesia’s capital — punctuated by a yawning divide between rich and poor — are improperly listed in the name of low-income people like Prayitno, the tax agency said.