Prostitutes take tax collectors to court
NZPA-AP London Masked prostitutes paraded outside the Law Courts in London yesterday to accuse the tax-man of “pimping.” The women were supporting Lindi St Clair in her fight against a £56,000 bill for tax and national insurance on her earnings; Ms St Clair, aged 30, who specialises 7 in whips and other implements of torture, won the first round of her battle with the Inland
Revenue. A High Court judge ruled that there was a matter of public policy at stake. He refused the Inland Revenue an order against Ms St Clair for “summary judgment” — in other words, an immediate order to pay up. She had asked the judge for an adjournment so that she could file, a proper defence to the tax man’s demand. She argues that the Inland Revenue should not be allowed to benefit from immoral earnings, R
“They prosecute me for being a prostitute, and they have fined me hundreds of pounds,” she said. “They also stopped me setting up a company because it would be to carry out an unlawful business. Yet they want me to pay tax. It is totally unfair. “If I pay anything towards the keep of my boyfriends, then they can get done for poncing; That’s why I say the tax-men are pimping.” ; \
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