Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes

Wednesday, June 28, 2006; Posted: 9:40 a.m. EDT (13:40 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don't pay.

The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning on the pimp tax. The bill also calls for more jail time for sex workers
for violations of tax laws.

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Asked if taxing sex workers would legitimize their trade, a Grassley spokesman said the goal was simply to find "yet another alternative to track the money flowing in this industry to get at potential criminals."

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Currently, the IRS has to prove a prostitute's or pimp's income to pursue a tax law violation. But under Grassley's proposal, a pimp could get up to 10 years in prison for each prostitute for whom the pimp hasn't filed a W-2, which means a pimp caught with 10 unregistered prostitutes faces a century in prison.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/pimp.tax/index.html
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Wow. I wonder how much revenue this could generate...Maybe we should ask some of Duke's buddies.

for a while now, many states have demanded that drug dealers purchase labels from the state that they must affix to their products. If they do not use the labels, they can be tried for tax evasion.

All of the sexworkers I know already pay their income taxes!

Seriously!

They usually list their profession as "Personal Consultant".

those who hire illegals for cash, like the huge developers. Go USA

how 'bout we rescind the tax cuts for the rich rather than trying to find outrageous ways to collect taxes from prostitutes and pimps? :eyes: