Have they got no shame?

[AtW]

HMRC launches tax crackdown on strippers

Government sets up taskforce to target adult club owners and 'entertainers' following a dramatic rise in online escort agencies

The Government is cracking down on strippers to ensure they pay tax on the money they make in the £5bn adult entertainment industry.

Officials believe those involved in the industry earn thousands of pounds a day and while many pay tax, some do not.

“Large numbers of people working in this industry are paying the tax they owe and they don’t have anything to worry about," Jim Stevenson, head of

HMRC has launched a taskforce that will also target adult club owners and "entertainers" following a dramatic rise in online escort agencies.

"The people being targeted by this taskforce have no intention of playing by the rules, and we won’t tolerate this.

“No industry is safe where tax evasion is concerned – we won’t stop tracking people down and taking back what they owe.”

HMRC highlighted the case of a mother-of-five who hid the £650,000 income she earned from her London-based escort agency.

Janine Adeleke, of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, claimed to be unemployed but was actually running Carltons of London, which offered "high class" escort services, providing the “finest London escorts to gentlemen of distinction”.

Source: HMRC launches tax crackdown on strippers - Telegraph

[xoggoth]

Why aren't they taxing drug dealers? They count towards GDP too apparently. Sure if drug dealers and other criminals had to submit CT600s, accounts and tax returns every year it would put quite a few off doing it.

Drugs and prostitution to be included in UK national accounts | Society | The Guardian

PS Still waiting for my old person's prostitute allowance. The Tories seem to like buying old fart votes so get on with it Osbourne.

[northernladuk]

Bet the inspectors are queuing up to start those inspections.

[barrydidit]

"Janine Adeleke, of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, claimed to be unemployed"

Good job nobody round here would stoop so low..

[FatLazyContractor]

Good job by HMRC.

B*tches take my hard earned money and pay no tax.

[SueEllen]

Why aren't they taxing drug dealers? They count towards GDP too apparently. Sure if drug dealers and other criminals had to submit CT600s, accounts and tax returns every year it would put quite a few off doing it.

Drugs and prostitution to be included in UK national accounts | Society | The Guardian

With sex workers the prison sentences for tax evasion are longer plus the fines are higher than what you get for sex work alone, but if you are a drug dealer they probably even out.

I did hear a few years ago that was the reason some sex workers were paying tax and VAT as they knew the CPS couldn't do an Al Capone on them.

[meridian]

Why aren't they taxing drug dealers? They count towards GDP too apparently. Sure if drug dealers and other criminals had to submit CT600s, accounts and tax returns every year it would put quite a few off doing it.

Drugs and prostitution to be included in UK national accounts | Society | The Guardian

PS Still waiting for my old person's prostitute allowance. The Tories seem to like buying old fart votes so get on with it Osbourne.

Of course they are required to pay taxes and furnish returns. There's no distinction in the tax statutes between legal and illegal earnings and no exemption from furnishing a tax return if your earnings are from illegal sources.

[Paddy]

They are the Queen's tax collectors and as such the Queen will be committing a criminal offence by living off immoral earnings.

[DimPrawn]

Good job by HMRC.

B*tches take my hard earned money and pay no tax.

Try getting a receipt next time.

[vetran]

good job maybe they will shut a few trafficking organisations down, a bit of forensic accounting might find them pretty easily.