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12-03-2007, 09:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HK
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| | | No rental Receipts
Hello, my employer is very strict with its rental reimbursement allowance doucmentation and will only accept original reciepts from the landlord. My landlord refuses to issue rental receipts and will not answer my calls (I just auto pay the money into his account each month). Is there any other method I can use to meet the requirement to provide receipts? I have issued a stamped tenancy agreement. | |
12-03-2007, 09:18 PM
|  | Resident Peacekeeper | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Pokfulam Age: 40
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| | | Cancel your auto-pay .. he'll call you. | |
12-03-2007, 09:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HK
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| | | Will do, but unfortunately I have already paid this month and need to submit by end of March... | |
12-03-2007, 10:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Hong Kong
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| | | The landlord is probably avoiding the payment of property tax on the rental income. Shop him/her. Do as KIA suggests and stop paying. Ask your employer's HR department if it is OK to back claim the rent at a later date. | |
12-03-2007, 10:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006
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| | | Well that's really an annoying situation !
Yes, do cancel that auto pay but do you have time to pay a personal visit to the landlord? Usually face to face people here are quite rational. | |
12-03-2007, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sham Tseng Age: 33
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| | | Surely the bank info is enough. We just gave our HR people a copy of the contract and a copy of the automatic payment form for the bank and it was sufficient. We have never got anything from the landlord. I know they need to do it by the book but I think my company would be so this must be a suitable option. Maybe check with your company again. | |
15-03-2007, 08:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HK
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| | | No luck. HR are playing hardball and will not accept the bank statement, and the agent got in touch with the landlord who refuses to issues the recietps, grrrrrrr Basically they have told me I am screwed withour the reciepts or a landlord letter, so there goes that money down the drain.
Let this be a lesson to all new people in HK, definitely agree the issuance of reciepts on your lease.
Assuming they are trying to avoid paying property tax. Maybe I should send an annonomous letter to the tax department, I have the landlords HKID number..... | |
15-03-2007, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Hong Kong
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| | | Do it do it do it! | |
16-03-2007, 02:44 PM
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| | | My landlord was very open about this when I moved in and he explained that he would not issue official receipts as he does not want to declare the income to the Gov't. | |
16-03-2007, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 919
| | | Can you get SOMEBODY to give you a receipt? HR is being ridiculous....the most famous Hong Kong word
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