Cologne fills tax gap with levy on prostitutes
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Cologne will earn a record 828,000 euros  ($1.1 million) in "sex tax" revenues this year, a figure well  above expectations when the levy was first introduced by  Germany's fourth largest city in 2004.
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AMSTERDAM -- In a city famous for pot and prostitutes, a Bay State man is seeking his fortune as a purveyor of offbeat potables.
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Aviation taxes could be brought into line with the vehicle tax system under proposals to charge the dirtiest aircraft a higher green levy than their more fuel-efficient counterparts.
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The German government on Wednesday adopted draft proposals for a reform of corporate taxation that would lead to a big cut in company taxes from next year.
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Scandinavian left raises the idea of taxing men for being men. STOCKHOLM  - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - Sex may sell, but selling sex can be expensive.
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At least Prague's overcharging taxi drivers don't discriminate. Just ask the mayor.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 19--Balancing environmental and economic interests is seldom easy. But the possible effect of Maryland's so-called flush tax to worsen poorly managed growth demonstrates how complex this effort can become.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS  on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number  of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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Business & money: A new and virulent form of fraud threatens to defeat governments' efforts to combat it and pushing annual tax losses up by billions of euros
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Italy is considering imposing on-the-spot fines on prostitutes' clients, the interior minister says.
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Arrests of foreigners for charges related to underage prostitution have doubled since last year.
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ROME : Italian taxpayers will be hit in the wallet with a wave of tax and tariff hikes as of February 1 representing an average additional burden of 98 euros (128 dollars) a month, three times the income tax ...
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A non-profit corporation has purchased buildings in Amsterdam's Red Light District where prostitutes pose in windows in a deal that may lead to a third being shuttered
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Sex sells in the hospitality business. But before you hire a swarm of supermodels, beware the labor laws.
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Italian towns will be allowed to tax tourists up to five euros per day in the 2007 budget put forward by Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
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The Norwegian court said striptease combined dance with acting A Norwegian appeals court has ruled that striptease is an art form and should therefore be exempt from value-added tax .Comment