Just saw a report that a judge ruled that lap-dances must be taxable as they are considered a service and not art. The entire case stems from the Hustler Club on the West Side Highway trying to avoid paying a sales-tax on lappers.
The ruling is that they club owes $2.1million dollars in back taxes, so the TOR guys wanted to find out how many lap dances this means
figuring the 8.875% NYC sales tax, $2.1 million dollars in back taxes should have been collected over $23,661,971.83. Now figure that an average lap-dance at the Hustler club is probably $20 (per song) we're talking about 1,183,098 lap dances..
now just imagine how much the local Korean dry-cleaners made off of that and then figure out the 8.875% for that.
Big Government wins again
Dutch Jeff's wife just told me that Dutch Jeff has started hanging out at the Hustler Club a lot lately. He tells her that's it just a "chill place to relax and have a beer." So Dutch.
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