Tax exemption stripped.

[loCAtek]

Well, this explains it all, in his own words;

Mine is "Let's pretend I give a shit and leave it at that."

[Sean]

And here we go again...

[Joe Guy]

Well, this explains it all, in his own words;....

[Econoline]

Let me add one more

[rubato]

Good God man!

And then you whinge about people giving you grief...

And then I am amazed you have not read Heinrich Boll? None?

Ignorant Morons. All of you.

Really One cannot expect you to understand the connection then.

yrs,
rubato

[The Hen]

Then can you explain what that story has to do with the strip tax.

Cheers Rube

[Sean]

And then I am amazed you have not read Heinrich Boll? None?

Ignorant Morons. All of you.

Really One cannot expect you to understand the connection then.

yrs,
rubato

No, his writing never interested me. I did however visit his house on Achill Island when I went there as a boy. Does that count?

[MajGenl.Meade]

To be fair, I think perhaps rubato's point is best explained in these terms

[The Hen]

Possibly.

However I still don't get the relevance to the article in the OP.

[rubato]

And so far the score is:

Rubato has read Heinrich Boll and his book "End of a Mission".

No one else has.

Well its a good book and bears directly on this subject in more than one way.

But you do have to read it to get it.








yrs,
rubato

[The Hen]

You may have read the story Rube, but can you answer what the connection with the OP is?

I can find nothing to connect it.

I have read books too mate. However, I won't link to any of my randomly read books in this thread as they have nothing to do with it.

Just like your Boil book,

[Gob]

A New York state strip club says it should not have to pay tax, claiming an exemption for the performing arts.

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But the New York state tax department and an appeal court say $124,000 (80,000) owed by Nite Moves does not fall under an exemption for "live dramatic or musical arts performances".

The dispute is due before the state's highest court on Wednesday.

Tax officials say the club paid taxes on non-alcoholic drinks but must also pay for admission and "couch sales".

The exemption claimed by Nite Moves is usually applied to theatre performances or ballets.

The club is expected to ask a cultural anthropologist who has studied exotic dance - and visited the club - to testify on its behalf at the New York Court of Appeals.

An administrative law judge had previously ruled that "the fact that the dancers remove all or part of their costume... simply does not render such dance routines as something less than choreographed performances."

But the Tax Appeals Tribunal said the club had not adequately proved that it qualified for the exemption.

The tribunal said there was not enough proof that the dances were choreographed. An appeal court which upheld the tribunal's ruling added that club dancers did not need to have formal training.

It is expected that the high court will take about a month before issuing a decision

The spectre of dullness must be every author's nightmare, but who would have imagined so clever a novelist as Heinrich Boll succumbing to it? His latest work is divided into four sections and the most interesting thing about them is deciding which is the dullest. Every so often one catches glimpses of Boll's intention, but the chloroform of his prose works so well that only the drowsiest of conclusions can be offered. A father and son in some German town stand trial for perpetrating an obscure ""Happening,"" including the burning of a jeep, one obviously modeled on Jean Tinguely's self-destroying sculptures. There is scattered talk of pop art and the new consciousness, and no doubt Boll, the upholder of humanistic and Catholic values, wished to comment on the absurdity of current fashion and the demise of culture. Unfortunately, he succeeds only in parodying himself. The novel is dreadfully old-fashioned, a collection of slowly evolving portraits of various townspeople, each representative of aspects of middle class character and professions, each reacting in highly detailed and inescapably boring style to the peculiar crime. Law, religion, sex, money, art, philosophy, politics, journalism--all these abstractions are embodied in cardboard figures quite as if they were members of a morality play. Of course Boll is a serious writer and he knows enough about his craft to give the semblance of a life-like texture or delicacy to his creation. Still, the whole thing reads like third-rate Thomas Mann, teutonic brio-a-brac, as removed as a museum from the world of today.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revi ... on/#review

There you go, plain as the nose on your face really...

[rubato]

Boll, not boil. Heinrich Boll. Quite a lovely read. Nobel prize and everything. For people who read books.



yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Boll, not boil. Heinrich Boll. Quite a lovely read. Nobel prize and everything. For people who read books.

LOL!! There's that world famous sense of humour (fail) again

[rubato]

Your own literary sense fails, again!

Try reading the books will you?

No?

Well try having some one read them to you then.

yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Can you point out what "literary sense" is indicated by recognising your failure to see humour when your nose is rubbed in it?

I love the way you dig yourself into these holes. then try to bluster your way out on an empty hand...

[Gob]

End of a Mission, written in 1968, finds Heinrich Boll trying to come to terms with his country's monstrous past in an investigation of an inexplicable crime and an even more absurd trial. Told to rack up mileage on a jeep to prepare it for inspection, a soldier drives it home--and burns it in the company of his complaisant father. Boll's account of the testimony and background of the witnesses, and their nonplussed response to the composure and satisfaction of the accused, illuminates the life of an insignificant town caught up in sudden, unreasonable importance.

Strip clubs? Taxes?

[dales]

Here's a good read (speaking of strip clubs and taxes)............

[The Hen]

I am sorry for my spelling mistake Rube.

Now please answer my question.

I note you have avoided it ever since posting your link (which has NOTHING to do with the OP).

I accept that your lack of response is you hiding from the question.

I understand that might be easier for you than admitting your link had nothing to do with the topic of this post. However, please stop being rude because you don't have an answer.

Thanks.

[Lord Jim]

What question? I don't see any question. You haven't posted any question. You haven't posted one single example of a question. Can't find a question, can you?

Try reading a book, why don't you? I am a scientist.

yrs,

rubeoddo