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Fri 03 Mar 2010Sex shop peep show fails to get low cinema tax rate
EUROPE’S HIGHEST court has cast its austere eye over the risqué world of erotic commerce, ruling that the owner of a Belgian sex shop is not entitled to classify his peep show cubicles as cinemas for tax purposes.
In a ruling in which the European Court of Justice applied arcane tax rules to coin-operated film booths, the shopkeeper lost his claim to apply a reduced rate of value added tax (VAT) on his income from the cubicles.
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