Pole-dancing taxing, not tax-free
ALBANY, N.Y. - While it may take some skill for a nude dancer to flip upside-down on a pole without falling on her head, a New York tax appeals board says that doesn't raise her gyrations to the tax-free status of art.
ALBANY, N.Y. - While it may take some skill for a nude dancer to flip upside-down on a pole without falling on her head, a New York tax appeals board says that doesn't raise her gyrations to the tax-free status of art.
A Tax Appeals Tribunal has rejected a judge's finding that the Nite Moves exotic-dance club near Albany qualified for a sales-tax exemption on the grounds that exotic dances on stage and in private booths were "dramatic or musical arts performances."
The tribunal earlier this month overturned the finding by Administrative Law Judge Catherine Bennett that a "dramatic arts" exception applied to Nite Moves' liability for about $129,000 in state sales taxes between 2002 and 2005.
Bennett had based her decision largely on testimony of a University of Maryland dance expert.