And now the strangest tax protest we’ve ever seen or will see — free sex at a brothel.
The owner of the Pascha brothel in Salzburg, Austria, tells the Kronen Zeitung tabloid he’s no longer willing to be “the tax office’s pimp.”
“In the last decade, I have paid taxes of almost 5 million euros,” owner Hermann Muller says. “The problem is the tax office wants more and more, and they are not cracking down on illegal street and apartment prostitution.”
Ah… so he’s got a regulated racket and he’s angry about upstart competitors. A familiar story.
The Pascha brothel: Offering more atmosphere than “illegal street and apartment prostitution.”
Still, the logic is inescapable: If his establishment offers free sex, there’s no payment to tax.
Demand, we’re told, is off the charts: “The stunt has been great publicity for him, and he says that he plans to continue it for four-eight weeks,” reports the English-language site The Local. “Drinks are on the house, and Müller says that he is paying the prostitutes’ usual hourly rate out of his own pocket.”
Poster Comment:
It makes us regret that we live so far from Salzburg. ;)