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Land office scamming foreigners.
This past week my girlfriend and I went to the Land Office in Hua Hin to complete the purchase of a house there. We were informed that we had to pay a tax of 26,000 baht plus 300 baht to complete the purchase of the house. We were a bit upset at this unexpectedly high tax. My girlfriend called a friend who is the manager of the Land Office in Korat who told her that the tax should only be 8,000 baht. My girlfriend corrected the Hua Hin land office person telling her the correct rate for calculating the tax and instantly the amount of tax was reduced to 8,000 baht. We were also given only one of the two receipts required for the tax paid. Our real estate person spotted this quickly and went back into the office and obtained the second receipt. My girlfriend's friend managing the Land Office in Korat said that employees in the land offices run these scams frequently on farangs and just pocket the difference.
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