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The Taxman Cometh, Soonish, for Vegas Drivers and Doormen

By Eric Lipman

It's been almost a month since I have had an opportunity to mention strip clubs here on LBW, whereas both Above the Law and the WSJ Law Blog got to do so less than two weeks ago. Once again, though, Meeting the Sin Laws alerted me to a story I just couldn't ignore. While I frequent Las Vegas, a charming little city in the desert on the way to Los Angeles, solely because I am a devotee of the music of Cher and all things jerky, apparently some people like to go there to drink, gamble and stare at naked women. The Vegas strip club market is fairly well saturated, and drumming up business is key. One way strip club owners get the hammered bachelor parties to ogle their strippers rather than the competitors' -- and pay $16 for a bottle of Miller Lite while doing so -- is through a well established system of payments to taxi and limo drivers: Bring the dudes to our club, and we'll pay you X dollars per person. Because we know they'll spend 4X dollars while they're here. The strip club owners reportedly feel compelled to make these payments because if they don't,...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).