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A dancer performs at a strip club  (Photo credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages)

In Divided Ruling, State’s Top Court Decides Lap Dance Isn’t Art, Is Taxable

Lap dances are taxable because they don’t promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York’s highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling.

2012/10/23

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