Source: UK Reuters
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(BANGKOK, THAILAND) — More men are visiting Thailand’s famed massage parlours, helping refill depleted government coffers despite a renewed police effort to stop masseuses selling sex, tax officials say.
Excise department chief Sathit Limpongpan told reporters the country’s 88 registered massage parlours paid 30 percent more taxes in July than in June.
A bribery scandal involving a massage parlour tycoon and senior policemen which resulted in more active police patrolling around many massage parlours had not put men off.
"It is like having a meal. People have to eat no matter what," Sathit said. "If a restaurant you usually visit has a problem, you just go to one that doesn’t."
