Strippers are artists
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A Norwegian judge has ruled that at least some strippers’ work is artistic and exempt from Norway’s VAT.
When the Oslo court granted the Diamond Go Go Bar the same tax exemption as theatre performances, the judge explained that there were two types of striptease: one that was artistic and the other vulgar.
The judge said that “to the court’s knowledge”, the shows in question were artistic.
The court case revived a debate that erupted in Norway in 2002 when it emerged that conventional striptease performances were subject to VAT while tickets for a performance by the famed male strip group Chippendales were not.
