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mschere --

enough OLD NEWS for now, please?

let things fall just a bit silent, as they should now be, as we all wait to learn whether today's action was real or not . . .

even as we wait for the confirmation we've been waiting for for so long -- in this moment, that today's action was indeed at least somewhat more significant than the following honest woman's ultimately (and I'd say yea! tragically!) failed attempt for justice (ams, being an educated man from a much more nearby country, perhaps you might have an educated opinion to share with the rest of us, re the true merits of this sorry matter, as we all wait to learn whether we are or are not yet rich?) --


(COMTEX) B: Stripper Can't Deduct Implants on Taxes

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 14, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- You can't deflate
your taxes by inflating your chest, a Swedish stripper learned after a
three-year legal battle to deduct the cost of her breast implants from her
income taxes.

An appeals court in Stockholm sided with the latter and ruled the 25-year-old
woman's 26,000 kronor (US $3,000) breast enhancement surgery could not be
deducted from her 1998 income taxes.

The woman, whose name was not released, claimed the "size and shape" of her
breasts were crucial to her income as a stripper. She listed the cost of the
surgery as a business expense and sued the tax authorities when they rejected
her deduction.

In its Jan. 9 ruling, the administrative court of appeal in the Swedish capital
upheld the decision of a lower court, saying the surgery wasn't commercial, but
private.

The woman's defense lawyer, Christer Transby, said Tuesday that the courts had
treated his client unfairly because of her profession. He said other performers,
including opera singers and dancers, were permitted deductions for different
types of cosmetic surgery, although the benefits were more private than
commercial.

"She derives absolutely no pleasure from (the surgery) privately," he said.
"It's of 100 percent commercial interest."

Transby said his client had not yet decided whether to appeal.

Danish tax authorities turned down a similar appeal by a stripper there in 2001.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press, All rights reserved

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