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    Default Heads Up Regarding Vegas Business License

    I see a potential problem cropping up regarding this.

    As many of you know I am a traveling dancer. Thus, unexpected mail my sit in my mailbox for several months.

    I acquired my business license in LV last April when it became mandatory. I paid the $100 fee and worked a few weeks and did not go back until this year.

    In February I checked my mail, and had received a form in the mail for me to submit payment of 7.5% sales tax on all of my reported club earnings due by 1/31/05.

    So I am late obviously. I showed up for work at the club I normally work at when in town and my name was on a sheet saying I had not paid my taxes and could not work until they were paid. So obviously the Nevada Dept of Taxation has on file every club we work at and the whole point of this license is to receive sales tax revenue from every sale every dancer makes while dancing.

    This license is a scam in my opinion. We are not selling tangible goods and are not charging 7.5% sales tax to every customer we dance for. We are not a store, but are selling a service. In most states for example if you get your car repaired, you only pay sales tax on the parts, not the labor.

    Plus, if a dancer does not renew her business license each year in the anniversary month she is subject to a $100 penalty on top of the $100 renewal fee unless she gives a 10 day written notice that she doesn't intend to renew.

    Many dancers only come to LV to work a few days or a week, never come back and don't have a mailing address that is permanent, so they may not be aware of the renewal clause, and having to pay 7.5% of their earnings by 1/31 each year, and be in the system as a bad debt.

    As dancers, we don't have a physical business in Nevada that we work on a regular basis and this licensing paperwork and sales tax filing could cause us legal hassles in the future if we are not on top of it.

    For a state with no state income tax, a dancer with $20,000 of income from dancing in Nevada can owe sales taxes of $1500 by 1/31 of the following year. That is a lot.

    This has nothing to do with IRS obligations.

    An increasing amount of dancers will end up in default on this due to living out of state and not being aware of their obligations.

    I plan on giving a 10 day written notice to cancel my license, send around $100-$150 tax on income I am reporting, plus a 1% interest penalty for each month I was late and a 10% penalty on the total tax owed. if i should decide to work there again it won't be until after January and I can get a new license.

    I posted this in this section so the maximum amount of dancers can see it.

    THIS IS YET ANOTHER REASON TO LEAVE VEGAS/NEVADA CLUBS ALONE!!!

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    Default Re: Heads Up Regarding Vegas Business License

    I simply stated on my tax statement that I sold nothing that was taxable (or something to that effect).

    I think you only have to pay sales tax if you sell actual goods, and don't have to pay if you offer a service (like hairderssers, house keepers, and exotic dancers).

    Talk to your accountant about this, Tina. You are already paying income tax on these earnings, and you will have to file in every state you earned income in, as well as the state that you reside in. If your accountant at home isn't familiar with the laws in Vegas, call up some people there to see if you can hire their services just for this portion of your filing.

    The money you earn from dancing is a labor charge, and not a product sale. Sometimes it is the phraseology that can make the difference.

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    Default Re: Heads Up Regarding Vegas Business License

    Tina that is terrible!!!!! I moved out of Vegas just before the license was a requirement. Wow, that blows. I know the city wanted to cut back on out of state dancers coming in to work, I think partly why they started that license crap. And to collect more revenue of course. When all the girls that breeze in occasionally get those notices of $$$ they owe, that's just going to be ugly.

    I know a while back there was talk of taxing the prostitutes at the brothels an "entertainment tax" for the services they provide. The state wants a share of the dancers money, etc.....I'm just so glad I'm not dancing there anymore. What a headache.... I knew that start of that license would be a pain in the ass.

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