Pattaya Bar Raid Crusade Continues... Silver Star GoGo - Busted!!!

From Pattaya One News comes the story of yet another bar being raided by police in Pattaya. This time the Silver Star GoGo on Walking Street was raided. According to police they had received a tip-off that the bar was employing underage and foreign bar workers. Out of 20 ladies in the bar, 18 were arrested! 9 of the girls were under 18 years of age and another 9 girls were from Laos working without a permit. Even for Pattaya’s Walking Street this seems a bit over the top and in your face. Bound to attract some negative attention from somebody.

Now this makes me wonder. Who would complain about a Walking Street gogo having too many girls from Laos working in the bar? There are 3 possible answers:

1:  Another bar owner of course that must have been peeved that Silver Star was hiring too much cheap foreign labor while the other bars had to pay more for local girls from Thailand.

2: Seasoned Thai dancers were peeved the bar was only hiring cheap girls from Laos.

3: The bar was behind on its voluntary contributions to the various local tax collectors.

I can see it now, the bar owner says Ok, we’ll make this payment and this payment but pay this last tax collector next week. The tax collector they didn’t pay was one they should have paid on time and he decided to make his point crystal clear to the bars owners.

It would seem the raiding of bars in Pattaya has become a weekly occurrence during the past month. Is there a bar raid crusade taking place in Pattaya? Perhaps a tax increase was  put in place and some of the bar owners were complaining about the increase? If that's the case then no doubt the bars have gotten the message that whether they like it or not it’s time to pay higher taxes for the new year if you want to stay in business.

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