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You Can Leave Your Hat On – and Your Wallet At the Door

20 March 2009

New York state needs money has found its moral center – and it’s in Brooklyn. New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who represents Brooklyn, has proposed a new tax on strip clubs. The bill would impose a $10 per patron tax for any business that provides for any adult entertainment business featuring nude or partly nude [...]

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Court Ruling? Court Schmuling. Texas Decides to Collect Stripper Tax Anyway.

22 April 2008

The Texas Entertainment Association (TEA) has announced that adult cabarets (or as most people call them, strip clubs) received notification from the Texas Comptroller that the $5 stripper tax is due despite a court ruling that the tax is unconstitutional. A Texas judge had ordered that the, “Defendants are permanently enjoined from assessing or collecting [...]

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Strippers Everywhere Breathe a Sigh of Relief: Texas Pole Tax is No More

2 April 2008

On March 28, a Texas court ruled that the government may not impose a $5/customer “pole tax” at strip clubs. The proceeds of the tax were to benefit victims of sexual assault and those who were uninsured in Texas (quite a combination, no?). In Texas Entertainment Association Inc. v. Combs, Judge Scott Jenkins ruled that [...]

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