That’s the figure the Office of National Statistics (ONS) came up with when asked by the EU to estimate how much prostitution contributes to the UK’s GDP. But it seems rather high, will it hold [...]
The British economy is set to receive a £10 billion boost – on paper, at least – as the country revamps the way it calculates its GDP to include prostitution and illegal drugs in its official [...]
From today’s Telegraph: A student who began working as a high-class escort to fund her master’s degree has been ordered to repay more than £174,000 in unpaid tax and costs or go to jail. [...]
Well I say escorts, I mean prostitutes. The tax argument that has been made by prostitutes is simple enough: it runs along the lines of, I knew that what I was doing was illegal and I thought you [...]