Prostitutes in the German city of Bonn must carry a ticket, purchased from a meter-like machine, while working the streets or they will be prosecuted for tax avoidance after a scheme was launched at the start of the week.
While prostitution is legal in Germany, prostitutes must pay income tax - the level of which varies from state to state. However, this has been hard to enforce as these women of the night ply their trade on the streets in what is something of a cash-in-hand (or other places) job.
There are around 200 prostitutes working in Bonn and the council have special wooden parking garages in certain areas of the city where men can retire to with their investment.
The women will be charged 6€ (£5.31) a night to work.
It'll be interesting to see how well that works. Clearly, prostitution is regarded as a genuine occupation in Germany and TWOL supposes that this form of income tax goes at least some way to making up for the fact that Germany carries the European Union.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
deadline day
So, today is Transfer Deadline Day™ and the machine that is football is going into over-drive. As football clubs try to thrash out last-minute deals and players try to escape the rumour mill, pandemonium ensues on Twitter. It would appear that every Twitter account related to football (and a fair few who aren't) have a source at a "major international airport", watching as Sergio Ronaldo, the £150 million, 100-goals-a-season super striker who endorses his own line of flashing boots and £1000 aftershave, comes striding through Manchester Airport, to sign for Citeh.
How did rumour spread before Twitter, TWOL asks?
Sky Sports News, who for the past 40 days has had a countdown to 11pm this evening which confused anyone who isn't British, are now showing a seconds column on said countdown! They have a work experience reporter outside every football ground in the country, ready to inform us that "Sky Sources have told us that" Sheikh Mansour wipes his arse with £50 notes.
Of course the Deadline™ means extraordinarily little because, from personal memory, United's signing of Berbatov and Citeh's signing of Robinho in 2008 were both finished after the Deadline™. Still, SSN has to appear exciting somehow, TWOL guesses.
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How did rumour spread before Twitter, TWOL asks?
Sky Sports News, who for the past 40 days has had a countdown to 11pm this evening which confused anyone who isn't British, are now showing a seconds column on said countdown! They have a work experience reporter outside every football ground in the country, ready to inform us that "Sky Sources have told us that" Sheikh Mansour wipes his arse with £50 notes.
Of course the Deadline™ means extraordinarily little because, from personal memory, United's signing of Berbatov and Citeh's signing of Robinho in 2008 were both finished after the Deadline™. Still, SSN has to appear exciting somehow, TWOL guesses.
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WORD COUNT: 195
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