Even in 2013 I met people who had to pay deposit at the western border from the Altai into Mongolia.
What i think is the way:
If you do not write the exit border into the custom paper, they think that you want to leave the vehicle and they ask for the deposit.
So always write at the exit border "Altanbulag / Sukhbaatar " and they know you are leaving again.
If you write the same ( western ) border again, than they want also ask you for deposit and they know that it is hard for you to get it back and maybe you give up after some hours or a day ( and then some custom guard will take the deposit )
But maybe there is really a new law, but I do not think so.
What really happened and also Mongolians told me, that at the time of the Mongol Rallye, they ask for deposit when they suspect a Member of the Rallye, because many of them just left the cars in UB and left.
And that is what they dont want to happen anymore...
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