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Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law

Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum

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2014

677 New Loudon Corp.

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New York’S Taxable Lap Dancing …At A Strip Club Near You!, Harvey Gilmore Mar 2014

New York’S Taxable Lap Dancing …At A Strip Club Near You!, Harvey Gilmore

Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum

In today’s difficult economic times, state governments are more hard pressed than ever to come up with new sources of revenue to at least stay revenue neutral. Leave it to the perpetually money-hungry State of New York to come up with this gem of an idea for generating tax revenues: In 2005, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance attempted to impose sales tax on a nightclub’s offering of exotic dancing to its customers. This resulted in one nightclub instigating a legal challenge to the state’s attempt to impose sales taxes on exotic dancing. This resulted in the …