Do strippers pay tax?![]()

Do strippers pay tax?![]()
Yes. Strippers are considered "self-employed" and pay tax on their income. There's lots of information on taxes and money in this section, just read through it.
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle
You bet ya! And can be a hefty price at that.
are strippers legally required to pay taxes? yes
do they? typically, no

My friends they strip but they never do pay their taxes.
Thats why I thought about stripping myself. How much do strippers make a night?

Do I have to pay taxes if I still lived with my parents? I have no credit card no bills or anything. My car is under my parents name. I pay cash upfront for everything. And If I need to write a check out to somewhere. I would just give my mom the money and she write the check for me. So Do I have to pay taxes.
why wouldn't you have to pay taxes? You're working.
Are you asking if you could get away with not doing so? Perhaps, but that's like asking if you have to go to jail if you rob someone....only if you get caught.





to follow up on Emily's post, this is an excerpt from another Dancer's site ...
I Owe The IRS $49,000???
I danced a few years ago at a club in Atlanta. I found out about a month ago that the club I worked for submitted a 1099 claiming I made over $100,000 ... I only recall being asked to "declare tips" a handful of times at this club ...
This is the risk that all dancers run if they choose not to report their dancing income correctly. The 1099 form is only the size of a post card, but when an "employer" i.e. a club fills out a 1099 form in January stating that a dancer named --- address --- SS# --- was paid x thousand dollars over the course of the previous year in private dance sales, champagne room commissions etc. that 1099 form can hit like a ton of bricks.
Because of that 1099 form being filed by the club, the IRS and state tax dep't have an official record that you earned x thousand dollars in the previous year. Because dancing involves tips the same as waitresses, cab drivers, etc. the IRS will also expect that the dancer earned tip income on top of the 1099 income reported by the club. If the IRS does not receive a personal income tax return from you which plausibly matches the amount of income the club reported that you earned in the same time period, this is an instant red flag for an audit at best, and possibly grounds for bringing criminal charges such as tax fraud.
As the dancer who posted this incident discovered, the IRS has no sympathy whatsoever in these matters - they simply want their money. If, like the dancer who posted this incident, you have not reported the income, have not paid the taxes on that income, and you have not set aside enough money to cover the taxes due once the IRS comes looking for you, the IRS can then start doing all sorts of nasty things.
Perhaps before 9/11 and during the high-tech boom of the late nineties the IRS did not have the "tools" or the motivation to pursue the exotic dancing industry, such that it might have been very possible for dancers to simply not report their incomes with very little probability that they would be "caught". However, IMHO, today's new Patriot Act powers of financial investigation, today's interconnected computers, millions of formerly high earning (and high tax paying) tech industry workers now being unemployed, and today's deep government budget deficits, provide both the "tools" and the motivation for the IRS to make the dance industry a ripe target.
I highly recommend that you read , which brings to light a new development that makes tax enforcement in the dance industry even more likely next year than it already was !
Mel, I saw something at the post office yesterday that made me think of you....this guy was getting $3000 worth of money orders (the most I ever get in one day is $1000, because of what you say).
Anyway, to do so, they made him fill out a form, show valid ID and send them Express Mail so they could track it.





Yup, Emily, and that's only the part that you saw! The OTHER part is that a back room post office employee was typing in this guy's name, address and SS# into a federal computer terminal, which will inform every agency from the IRS to the FBI to the NSA that the $3000 cash transaction took place. The FBI will concentrate on who the guy is, the NSA will concentrate on where the money orders were sent, and the IRS will concentrate on whether this guy reported $5000 in gross income to cover the $3000 in "after-tax" cash he just spent.Mel, I saw something at the post office yesterday that made me think of you....this guy was getting $3000 worth of money orders (the most I ever get in one day is $1000, because of what you say). Anyway, to do so, they made him fill out a form, show valid ID and send them Express Mail so they could track it.
Mel, do you have any idea how much of my a$$ you've saved? I'm going to talk to the owner about the 1099, if he WILL be filling those out, I need to start saving more of my money! Do you know how often clubs do those things?
If you think school is hard, try being stupid.
YAY!! I just talked to the owner and he says he doesn't do the 1099's because we're independent contractors and it's up to us to file our own taxesSAVED
If you think school is hard, try being stupid.





Bella, you're certainly entitled to handle your own taxes any way you want to. But you should keep in mind that if your clubowner comes under IRS attention either randomly as part of increased tax collection efforts, or because the club has been doing some creative accounting, the IRS will very probably offer the clubowner a similar deal to that which they've been offering the Casinos lately - "we won't investigate your club's finances too deeply if you'll voluntarily agree to issue 1099's for your workers' earnings". Just because a clubowner says in September that he doesn't intend to issue 1099's does not mean that he'll still stick to that position next January.
By law the vast majority of businesses which use independent contractors are required to issue 1099's if the business handles money on behalf of the independent contractors. This means that if you directly receive cash from club customers from private dances and you get to keep 100% of it, odds are no 1099's will result. But if you work at a club where the customer buys private dances through the club's cash register, and later the club pays you a percentage of this private dance money based on how many dances it recorded that you performed, the likelihood of 1099's appearing is higher.
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