Now he’ll need $21.
If Detroit only had a brilliant mayor like Michael Nutter, they certainly wouldn’t be bankrupt. When the going gets rough and you’ve run out of money, create a new tax out of thin air. Nutter has already jacked up taxes on cigarettes and soda, which impact the poor the most. Now he wants to tax you for having a trollop sit on your lap. I bet Nutter will have 10,000 government union drones applying for the 50 lap dance enforcement specialist jobs that will be created. Maybe they can add a blowjob tax (an extra 5% if they swallow), a handjob tax, an anal tax, and a premature ejaculation tax. Nutter is cumming for your money. If you need any more proof of a city in a downward spiral, this is it. Do it for the chilrun.
This guy should get a tax refund.
Lap dance in West Philly
Lap dances to be taxed to help Philadelphia school revenues
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Romy Varghese
A man in a strip club Photo: Michael Rayner
Philadelphia: It’s one thing to watch a scantily clad woman twirl around poles. It’s another, says Philadelphia, to pay her to undulate over your lap.
That’s the stance being taken with at least two strip clubs, Club Risque and Cheerleaders: The city, which taxes the establishments’ entrance fees, is trying to collect levies on lap dances as well.
It’s unclear how much the city would reap from collecting lap-dance levies from every club, of which there are dozens.
The city is pressing its case as it hires a revenue collection officer and goes after delinquent property tax, which is fifth highest among US cities surveyed last month by Pew Charitable Trusts. Mayor Michael Nutter has pledged an extra $US28 million from improved collections to the school district, which has a $US304 million deficit.
“It’s smart business” to apply the tax code to erotic dancing, said Michael Gillen, director of the tax accounting group at Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia. “They have to be foolish not to expand their reach.”
The adult-entertainment industry has waged and lost several taxation battles. New York in October rejected a bid by the strip club Nite Moves to get a break on the grounds that it provided musical art performances. The Texas Supreme Court three years ago upheld a per-customer tax in nude businesses that serve alcohol.
At issue in Philadelphia is a 5 percent tax that applies to any amusement in the city, including concerts, movies and strip- club entry fees. The city collected $US21.9 million in those taxes in the fiscal year that ended in July 2012, documents show.
Now the city says lap dances are distinct amusements and should be taxed, according to George Bochetto, a Philadelphia lawyer challenging the city’s tax assessment on behalf of the two clubs.
Philadelphia sent a $US486,483 bill covering lap dances performed at Cheerleaders and charged Club Risque $US320,540, according to documents provided by Mr Bochetto. The city is seeking principal, interest and penalties over three years.
It’s unclear how much the city would reap from collecting lap-dance levies from every club, of which there are dozens.
At Club Risque, which is advertising a Christmas in July party next week featuring “naughty elves,” lap dances start at $US20 and can cost $US200 in a semi-private area. The club already pays the amusement tax on entry fees as high as $US15, depending on the day and time, according to the documents.
Mr Bochetto says the city’s approach is unfair, arguing that a personal performance doesn’t constitute a separate amusement.
Mr Bochetto said he will press his clients’ appeal in front of a city tax board next week and said he’ll go to court if needed. In papers filed with the city, he said dancers pay their own taxes and provide their own costumes and props. In exchange for security, the performers give the businesses a percentage of their earnings at the end of each shift.
“The city started saying, ‘OK, we need more money, and here, maybe, is a way we can scare up some more money without having to raise anybody’s taxes,’ ” Mr Bochetto said.
Mark McDonald, a spokesman for Mr Nutter, declined to comment on how many strip clubs the city is trying to tax for lap dances or on the bills for Cheerleaders and Club Risque.
The city and school district are owed $US515.4 million in delinquent taxes and penalties, according to a report last month from the Pew Charitable Trusts, a Philadelphia-based research and public policy group. Pew surveyed the nation’s most populous metropolitan areas and six others that, like Philadelphia, have poverty rates of more than 25 percent.
Outside, John Adams, 33, of Philadelphia, a former manager at another strip club in the city, said applying the fees is a “horrible” idea.
“It’s going to be impossible to regulate,” Mr Adams said, adding that prices can vary widely. “Sometimes it’s negotiated. Sometimes a woman just sits on your lap.”
Wait till they get to the breathing tax. Per sheet toilet paper tax. How many leaves your trees drop in the fall tax.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Thanks for the laugh, much needed on this Monday morning.
In most crime infested cities around the world, prostitution is legal, and why not, if your going to get murdered or robbed, there might as well have something to look forward to if you’re going to risk your life. I can just imagine the caliber of dancers in downtown Philly. Those pictures probably aren’t far off.
I’d pay a dollar tax for a lap dance, in some circumstances, like this one:
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Lap dance talent varies widely, If you’re going to pay, make sure you get a professional…
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Jim,
Next time Avalon sits on your lap I do trust you’ll send Mr. Nutter five bucks.
Philly could put a dent in their deficit problem if they collected a tax every time AWD posts fatty pics.
These girls on working on their lap dancing PhD
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As said before, Where’s the little green onion?
Seems to me all they have to do is issue a pad of paper and a charcoal stick and bill it as an art class.
No charge for appreciating art, is there?
Maybe Nutter can go all Vaspasian and start a piss tax;
During the 1st century AD, Roman emperor Vaspasian placed a tax on urine. At the time, urine was collected and used as a source of ammonia in such tasks as tanning hides and laundering garments. Therefore, those who obtained valuable urine from collectors were charged a tax.
IRS 1040 instructions actually require you to pay taxes on property you stole.
As of 2005, TN requires drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on any illegal substances they sold.
This is a wonderful idea! Shouldn’t everyone feel the pain? I mean , not just smoker’s like me, but people who live on lard , And man imposter’s that get their jollie’s at strip club’s? New law’s will surely teach them a lesson! All this stuff about anonymous taxes is truly amusing. I mean, here’s Joe blow drug dealer, who sold 100,000 dollars worth of pot and inadvertantly landed 1,000 nonviolent drug offenders in jail when they were minding their own businesss. Joe Blow get’s his drugs from colorado. they are really cheap there. then he comes back here and sells them at market price. he makes a veritable fortune. He can’t pay taxes on it though or he will wind up with an IRS broom up his but. Anyway – the good times end and joe blow goes to jail forever: or until he’s so old and fucked up only nursing home’s will accept him. His old customer’s have a problem. No pot! Is the world going to end for them?
Thank God Almighty, No! It takes them roughly 24 hour’s too find a new dealer. How’s that war on drugs working out for you, you taxpayers who are footing the bill?
A small surcharge on chicken wings and Philly is on the road to financial recovery.
A 20% tax on cheesesteaks and soft pretzels would balance the budget.
This is to AWD. What the fuck do lap dancing classes have to do with this? Are taxpayer’s paying for them? I think they are a great way to get couple’s back together. . . think about it.
Joe blow is going to divorce his wife – but wait – suddenly she strides confidently up to him, plant’s her pretty ass on his lap, and start’s this smooth , sinewy, motion . . . Hot damn! Divorce over!
You see, all it takes is a little compromise.
Sorry, guys, but I think if you tax the pretzels and wings you merely re-transfer the taxes back from the EBT fund back into the Internal Revenue fund. Hey, you’re recycling now!
At issue in Philadelphia is a 5 percent tax that applies to any amusement in the city,
Muse in ancient Greek meant ‘to think’ A-muse means not to think or without thinking.
Doesn’t that mean that every elected official should get a 5% tax increase?
Stucky says:
“Philly could put a dent in their deficit problem if they collected a tax every time AWD posts fatty pics.”
he hasn’t been posting enough fatty pics, just these disgusting skinny ass chicks. peeps should get a discount on the ass tax if you get a lap dance from the anorexic chick.
Rain tax ?
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_33135.php
Rain, rain, go away.” That’s what Marylanders are saying now that their state government has decided to tax them on the amount of rain that falls on developed portions of their property. Last week the Maryland legislature passed and Gov. Martin O’Malley signed a law that taxes property owners on the basis of “the square footage of impervious surfaces on a property,” according to MarylandReporter.com. “The rationale is that roofs, driveways and parking lots create more potential for drainage problems and water contamination. Local jurisdictions are supposed to determine how much to charge per square foot, but in general, the size of the fee would depend on the size of the buildings and paved surfaces on a property.”
I think there used to be something like this, where strip clubs were highly regulated in CT and MA, so the mob in RI turned Providence into a strip club Mecca. They took all the dirty-old-man money in the tri-state area. Something similar will happen here. Clubs will move out of city limits, or just over the nearest state border. Especially when it comes to vices, where there’s a will there is a way.
This stuff is the death knell for govts.
Seriously?
Llpoh says:
“This stuff is the death knell for govts.”
reagan said the same about the california lottery and the movie back to the future anticipated entire cities in decay because of the proliferation of vice. now we have national lotteries substituting for investing in the stock market.
once marty/cal returns to his own time, doc brown comes back from the future to warn him, “your kids are assholes.” no shit.
Hey, with Maryland’s stupid rain tax-does this mean you can avoid it by having a sod roof?
My friend lives in Vienna, VA and their shity council also has rain rules. He was prevented from having more than a certain percentage of non-porous development on his land, so his driveway was trimmed from its original size and he wasn’t permitted to have a brick patio or solid deck-only a wooden deck. (He opted to build the patio, anyway.) He was also forced to pay a bond to the city of several thousand dollars because he cut down 4 trees. They’re holding him hostage-he had to plant 4 new trees and if they survive 2 years, he gets the bond back. The really stupid part is he planted a mini orchard in his back yard of at least 6 trees, but for whatever reason, they don’t count. One of his neighbors is a former shitty council member and they call the code office on him any time a work truck comes out and demand all work halt until the code inspector can come out. It’s amazing how overbearing their local govt is and just how much free time his idiot nosy neighbors have.
Government sucks at all levels.
To AWD: That child’s drawing you posted is NOT a drawing of her mother as a lap dancer.. it is a drawing of her selling a snow shovel at Home Depot. The idiot teacher made wild assumptions, which Mom felt it necessary to correct with a note:
http://www.businesspundit.com/always-check-your-childs-homework-before-it-gets-turned-in/
To the rest of you: As a woman with a couple of female friends who are pole dancers and work the strip clubs, I take strong exception to these women being labeled “sluts”, “trollops” ,and other degrading labels so often applied to women who parlay their good looks and athletic ability into a living.
These women mostly have NO sexual contact with their customers, and dating and/or sexual conduct (including fondling while she’s on his lap) with customers is strictly prohibited at almost all the clubs, which are trying to protect their operating licenses and also their dancers, who all too often are the object of bizarre fantasies and the target of stalkers. Prostitution will get the woman swiftly dismissed because these places cannot afford to get a rep as bordellos. My friend works far from where she lives and always takes a different route home, and her customers do not know her real name. Needless to say, I guard her confidentiality as well.
Why do these women do this job? Simple- the money. A talented pole dancer can easily make $2500 a week, an income even professionals with advanced degrees find it challenging to attain. And these women ARE talented- in addition to having a good face and figure, pole dancers must be extremely strong and athletic- how strong do you think a woman needs to be to hold her 120 lb body in a straight line out at a perfect 90 degree angle from a pole, with only ONE arm? I, who cannot lift more than 20 lb. without straining, am awestruck by their acrobatic skill and sheer strength.
I tire of the ignorant “slut-shaming” by guys who are always leering at half-naked women and forever posting shots of tarty young things with pneumatic boobs. Face it, the reason women get paid so much to strip and pole-dance is because there are so many men who will waste so much money to watch it.
Chicago999444, +1!! Even the rockers get it. Watch this:
, Turn the Page, Metallica, less than 6 mins.
Aaaand, since we are talking Metallica, SSS may tune down the volume a bit.
It`s not so hard to watch / listen and it`s Chicago`s story on rock music.
Peace.
Gosh, I like them. Over 20 mil views on youtube. It`s an 2007 vid and my hairs still rise on my arms.