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Re:From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying by selimthegrim on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:59AM (#21060890)
Pakistani-American here - land transfers in subcontinent are carried out by first going to the local patwari (clerk) in charge of land revenue records. Stamp duty and and registration is charged after that on declared transfer price of the property, so cash portion is under the table and not subject to it

https://joshandmakinternational.com/legal-procedure-pertaini...

Source: family selling a house in Karachi

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Re:From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying by selimthegrim on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:36AM (#21061290)
As a note, that site is out of date for Punjab, in 2017 they combined a lot of taxes under stamp duty (not relevant to me obviously)
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Re:From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying by rohan_shah on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:03AM (#21060928)
So black money is equally prevalent in Pakistan also? Another sign of our strong bond, connection and brotherhood! xD
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Re:From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying by yogesch on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:12AM (#21061038)
Not Paki, but aware of their situation.

It is not "equally" prevalent. It is at least an order of magnitude worse. Almost everything in Pak is about an order of magnitude worse than in India. Almost everything, except civic violence - that's about 2-3 orders of magnitude worse. The establishment has traditionally had other priorities. The current PM is trying to fix some things but faces tremendous pushback.

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