Who needs Burt? “This is Loni Anderson. She was very pleased with the stack that Mommy brought home for her,” says Fiona from Platforms and Poles.
Sex workers, send us pictures of your dogs and dollars or cats and stacks at info@titsandsass.com
Happy Tax Day! I don’t know why we got an extra day after Sunday to file, but it’s not like it made a difference for me, because I thankfully have an accountant handling my mess. If you are a sex worker who is maybe confused about how to handle filing, how to determine if you’re an employee or self-employed, or why you should file at all if you’re paid entirely in cash, please look at our post from last year, “Five Reasons Sex Workers File Their Damn Taxes.”
Melissa Gira Grant spoke to Buzzfeed about sex workers and taxes.
We’ve had a series of posts about how strip club owners have been tripped up by failing to pay their damn taxes.
Here’s a post by Story about her helpful accountant.
And here’s one I wrote about my own tax issues.
You might like to check out the Tax Domme, who is very knowledgeable about the industry.
Strip and Grow Rich also provides helpful tax advice for strippers.
If you’re on the fence about filing or nervous because you haven’t filed in the past, it’s really not as scary as you think. And it’s definitely better to deal with it yourself than to be made to deal with it down the road. Please feel free to post any tax-related questions in the comments and we’ll be happy to give you our (totally not professional and completely informal because we are not tax professionals et cetera) thoughts.
“Two nights’ work and a happy cat,” says this anonymous contributor. A happy cat owner, too, we imagine!
Sex workers, send us your pictures of your dogs and dollars or cats and stacks at info@titsandsass.com
Sex work seems to invite entertaining, original economic research. Wouldn’t it be interesting to quantify the change in income for a women who change careers to begin stripping? Or how much money dancers pay out to clubs? What do they do for the local economy? What kind of sales techniques are most effective for strippers? What marketing is effective for escorts in different markets and income brackets? What is the elasticity of demand for sex work?*
The first time I heard about the “Ovulating Strippers Make More Money!” study, I thought, “oh, that’s interesting! I wonder what they learned. So many strippers must have been studied.” But NO. Here’s the story: Two researchers at UNM in Albuquerque studied dancers for two months. They studied 18 dancers. In one club, in one city. For two cycles. There are so so many things to ask here. For instance, did ovulation coincide with the Pit hosting an NCAA tournament round? Since all the dancers were in one club, did they all work together often enough to have their cycles sync up, and did this perhaps amplify any effects ovulation or menstruation would have had?
Piper‘s dog Raven takes her turn guarding the stacks.
Sex workers, send us pictures of your dogs and dollars or cats and stacks at info@titsandsass.com