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[QUOTE][B](CNN) –[/B] As the eurozone battles public debt issues, a city in Germany has made it easier for sex workers to pay taxes. Bonn has installed automated pay stations on the streets in which streetwalkers can pay and print out receipts for a 6 euro fee (about $8.70) each night, according to an [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/world/europe/01germany.html"]article[/URL] in the New York Times. If police stop the prostitutes, they must have a current ticket to practice their trade.
Prostitution is legal in Germany and income taxable. While collecting tax returns is easier at brothels, getting government revenues from curbside sex workers is more problematic for Germany tax authorities.
“What the government in Bonn was finding was that it was hard for sex workers who solicit sex on the street to fill out tax returns for many reasons: A) they were probably really busy, but also some of them don’t speak the language,” Nadia Bilchik, a CNN editorial producer, [URL="http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/03/nr-bilchick-tax-meters-for-german-prostitutes.cnn"]explained[/URL] on CNN Saturday.
The Siemens-built meter machine – a converted parking meter – cost nearly $12,000; of the city’s 200 sex workers, an estimated 20 work on the streets, according to the Times.
"We expect to get some 200,000 euros ($288,000) per year from the meter," city spokesperson Isabelle Klotz told [URL="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixx-cI0weinkZfGB4lDd_JABJWgg?docId=CNG.96f9ad25900131336388af4e36e3a985.5d1"]AFP[/URL].
According to an [URL="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/30/sex-tax-street-prostitutes-in-bonn-must-now-pay-meter-for-a-nights-work/?iref=allsearch"]article[/URL] in Suddeutsche Zeitung, the move was made to make taxes more equitable as sex workers in the city’s designated “Eros centers” and sauna clubs already paid taxes. Street prostitution in Bonn is limited to an area opposite an “Eros Center,” and customers use one of six “sex boxes” – partitioned parking spaces – equipped with emergency buttons to alert nearby night watchmen of trouble, according to Suddeutsche Zeitung.
One Bonn sex worker – 24-year-old “Nicoleta” from Romania – [URL="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15361930,00.html"]interviewed[/URL] by Deutsche Welle said her main problem isn’t the new tax, but a recent drop-off in business. “It's not that much money, but when there's no work, well…"[/QUOTE]
So if a prostitute doesn't pay her ticket... will she be towed?
hehe the machine's built by Siemens
[QUOTE=iFail;32126393]hehe the machine's built by Siemens[/QUOTE]
Well, y'know, they can't just keep pouring out in east and west without getting paid.
[QUOTE=iFail;32126393]hehe the machine's built by Siemens[/QUOTE]
Hahah noticed that too!
Also, the name of that city, Bonn...
Sometimes jokes write themselves :v:
Prostitution is legal in Germany?
The more you know.
[QUOTE=Jallen;32126489]Prostitution is legal in Germany?
The more you know.[/QUOTE]
Really, it should be. Then you can enforce standards and make it a cleaner market.
I support legal prostitution, as long as it is regulated and taxed properly. I think Germany is handling it well, all prostitutes need to do regular medical tests and stuff.
I don't think you should tax the money that a woman got from prostitution.
Then again I don't think prostitution should be the only way of income for any woman.
But if some woman wants to make some extra buck by prostitution, then so be it. Just be careful.
[QUOTE=Jallen;32126489]Prostitution is legal in Germany?
The more you know.[/QUOTE]
So where are you going on holiday this year?
[QUOTE=Jallen;32126489]Prostitution is legal in Germany?
The more you know.[/QUOTE]
So it is in Austria, Switzerland, Greece and some more. I think it's also legal in france spain, portugal and italy, however not as an organisation (like a brothel).
So the German government regulates prostitution?
How does it do that?
Prostitution is legal in Germany but Wolfenstein 3D isn't.
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[QUOTE=Jallen;32126489]Prostitution is legal in Germany?
The more you know.[/QUOTE]
Its also semi legal in Britain, just not on the streets.
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;32126976]So the German government regulates prostitution?
How does it do that?[/QUOTE]
It's not a drug, it's a "job".
[QUOTE=SwizzChees;32127020]It's not a drug, it's a "job".[/QUOTE]
Someone earlier in the thread said that legalized prostitution can be regulated by the government (which makes sense, since there's stuff like STDs) but how would you regulate it?
What I see mentioned in the thread is regular medical tests, but I don't know.
[QUOTE=Vasili;32126997]Its also semi legal in Britain, just not on the streets.[/QUOTE]
How can something be semi-legal?
"Oh look at this bloke, I feel like killin' him, but I can't because it's only semi-legal so I'll rip off his legs instead"
How does that work?
[QUOTE=mac338;32127093]How can something be semi-legal?
"Oh look at this bloke, I feel like killin' him, but I can't because it's only semi-legal so I'll rip off his legs instead"
How does that work?[/QUOTE]
Maybe forbidden by law but not enforced.
[QUOTE=mac338;32127093]How can something be semi-legal?
"Oh look at this bloke, I feel like killin' him, but I can't because it's only semi-legal so I'll rip off his legs instead"
How does that work?[/QUOTE]
That means that you can prostitute yourself but you're not allowed to work with a pimp (or work for a pimp)
I saw this, I live in Bonn. I chuckled and moved on...
Say map!
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red = illegal
blue = legal but ~underground~
green = legal and regulated
[QUOTE=demoguy08;32126548]I support legal prostitution, as long as it is regulated and taxed properly. I think Germany is handling it well, all prostitutes need to do regular medical tests and stuff.[/QUOTE]
Give them a certification card and a complimentary box of condoms.
[QUOTE=mac338;32127093]How can something be semi-legal?
"Oh look at this bloke, I feel like killin' him, but I can't because it's only semi-legal so I'll rip off his legs instead"
How does that work?[/QUOTE]
Brothels exist, but they often aren't investigated because its safer than the woman being on the the streets
[QUOTE=CakeMaster7;32126976]So the German government regulates prostitution?
How does it do that?[/QUOTE]
Tax in brothels and now tax on the streets, I assume there is some medical stuff going on, like what happens in Nevada.
[QUOTE=Darkus;32127605]I saw this, I live in Bonn. I chuckled and moved on...[/QUOTE]
I lived there too. Now I live in Switzerland, and it's pretty funny because you can get prostitutes from 16+ on. They have phone numbers for you to order one, like a pizza.
[QUOTE=smurfy;32127645]Say map!
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Prostitution_in_Europe.png/921px-Prostitution_in_Europe.png[/img]
red = illegal
blue = legal but ~underground~
green = legal and regulated[/QUOTE]
Oh wow, I didn't think Turkey would be down for that.
[QUOTE=Bumrang;32126995]Prostitution is legal in Germany but Wolfenstein 3D isn't.
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Europe is famous for being more open with sex but being massively afraid of violence.
They're the polar opposite of the US.
[QUOTE=Billiam;32129702]Oh wow, I didn't think Turkey would be down for that.[/QUOTE]
I went to turkey and phoaaar some nice booty there. Shame I was only 16.
[QUOTE=Billiam;32129702]Oh wow, I didn't think Turkey would be down for that.[/QUOTE]
Sex turkeys. :quagmire:
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