Senator Wants Pimps to Face Tax Collectors (1 Viewer)

[scottyz]

WASHINGTON — Pimps and sex traffickers could soon find themselves being chased by tax collectors, not just the vice squad.

Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, wants the Internal Revenue Service to chase after pimps and sex traffickers with the same fervor it stalked gangster Al Capone for tax evasion.

Grassley, R-Iowa, would hit pimps with fines and lengthy prison sentences for failing to file employment forms and withhold taxes for the women and girls under their command.

The proposal would make certain tax crimes a felony when the money comes from a criminal activity. A one-year prison sentence and $25,000 fine would become a 10-year sentence and $50,000 fine for each employment form that a pimp or sex trafficker fails to file.

Grassley planned to propose the penalties when his panel meets Wednesday.

"The thugs who run these trafficking rings are exploiting society's poorest girls and women for personal gain," Grassley said. "The IRS goes after drug traffickers. It can go after sex traffickers."

"We need to simply treat the pimps and massage parlor operators the way we would treat anybody who takes the proceeds of a customer transaction from somebody and then gives a fraction of it back," he said.

Under tax law, that relationship makes the pimp an employer, requiring the filing of a wage statement and the withholding of payroll taxes, including Social Security.

Grassley envisions creating an office inside the Internal Revenue Service to prosecute sex traffickers for violating tax laws. The office would get $2 million to get started, and it would be allowed to keep a portion of the taxes it collects.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201231,00.html

:lol: :lol: I guess this is for real. What are the chances something like this would be put into law? Seems like it might be kind of hard to enforce because it's difficult to imagine a pimp filing employment forms.

 

[zymurgy]

First, your sig is hilarious!

As for the actual topic, I would prefer a system where these vices are legal and taxed.

 

[Jerry]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201231,00.html

:lol: :lol: I guess this is for real. What are the chances something like this would be put into law? Seems like it might be kind of hard to enforce because it's difficult to imagine a pimp filing employment forms.

Great...more government....

This is totally unenforceable without prostitution first becoming legal, which, as an Evil Conservative, I am legally required to oppose.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

I think prostitution should be a states issue, federally legal and taxable.