Out My Window

I am sure everyone has heard about the teen that auctioned off her virginity. The winner of the auction was an Italian business man who paid 8,800 pounds for unprotected sex at a luxury Venetian hotel.
Alina Percea, a Romanian teenage girl living in Germany, held the auction to pay for her schooling.
Now tax authorities in Germany are poised to claim 50 per cent of the money that she earned because they claim it was "tantamount to prostitution".

It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one,' an official said. 'Prostitution is not an illegal act in Germany, but not paying tax on earned money is.

It also emerged that, because Alina earned so much in such a short time, she may even be liable for a hefty VAT bill too.
VAT in Germany works out to 19 per cent, meaning the sale of her virginity could net her only 3,000 pounds.

Maybe prostitution should be made legal in the US. Think about that next time you are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic wondering why they are about to raise our gas tax another 30 cent a gallon.