Posted on 06/27/2006 7:05:12 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
Pimps and sex traffickers could soon find themselves being chased by tax collectors, not just the vice squad.
Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.
Grassley, R-Iowa, would hit pimps with fines and lengthy prison sentences for failing to file employment forms and withhold taxes for the women and girls under their command.
The proposal would make certain tax crimes a felony when the money comes from a criminal activity. A one-year prison sentence and $25,000 fine would become a 10-year sentence and $50,000 fine for each employment form that a pimp or sex trafficker fails to file.
Grassley planned to propose the penalties when his panel meets Wednesday.
"The thugs who run these trafficking rings are exploiting society's poorest girls and women for personal gain," Grassley said. "The IRS goes after drug traffickers. It can go after sex traffickers."
Michael Horowitz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said the change has the potential to put pimps out of business without difficult trials that require women to testify to abuse and mistreatment.
"We need to simply treat the pimps and massage parlor operators the way we would treat anybody who takes the proceeds of a customer transaction from somebody and then gives a fraction of it back," he said.
Under tax law, that relationship makes the pimp an employer, requiring the filing of a wage statement and the withholding of payroll taxes, including Social Security.
Durham would be a good place to start...
hehehe
Keep the Fair Tax issue on the front burner--do away with the IRS. Everyone should go after the IRS.
What do you think the chances are they'll collect enough to break even on the enforcement costs?
almost forgot about you! This is a hoot.
If it keeps the IRS agents busy chasing ridiculous stuff like this rather than slowing down the productivity of America, I say bring it on! I'm sure Willie Nelson is for it too...
Libertarian ping?
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The IRS? Jeez, it's hard out there for a pimp.
it's hard out there for a pimp...
The IRS is the biggest pimp in the nation. They will ultimately kill you if you refuse to pay them their cut of your action....
Doesn't this already fall under RICO?
Now that's quite an observation! I never saw it like that- it was always more of a 'mob protection racket' thing in my mind.
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So the fines will go to fund further government regulation and not to repair the lives of those trapped (kidnapped and enslaved) as sex workers?
Just another cash cow to pursue.
I hear there is a lot of money in baby sitting when you break down the number of sitters and hours. Are they paying their taxes and withholding for Social Security?
Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.
It is indeed said, that "it takes one to know one."
That having been said, I have my reservations about exercise of police powers by the feds especially the IRS. This is one area above all others that traditionally and actually belongs with the states.
Using the taxing powers this way is a perversion of the essential purposes of taxation (raising revenue) and fosters an oppressive mode of taxation that should not be tolerated by any that would protect or guarantee our liberties.
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H.R.25,S.25
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