Fw: Taxmen probe stripper's breast implants ~ BBC

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1123000/1123839.stm

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Taxmen probe stripper's breast implants

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The stripper says implants are a professional expense

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A Danish striptease dancer, who is trying to write off the cost of her

breast enlargement against tax will be forced to defend her decision to

officials next week.

According to the Danish newspaper, Politiken, Lia DamÈn has been summoned

to the LigningsrÂdet - the country's highest tax authority.

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Municipal tax authorities in Vejle, where Ms DamÈn lives, accepted her

claim to offset around 20,000 Danish kroner (about $25,000) against tax.

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But regional customs and excise officials appealed, sending the case to

the top authority.

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Ms DamÈn will argue that her breast enlargement operation was a

required expense for her profession, the paper writes.

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She requested permission to testify at a hearing of the 19-member tax

authority.

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According to Politiken, in a similar case, local tax authorities in Odense

refused the claim of a stripper = acolleague of Ms DamÈn - who tried to

write off the cost of her silicon implants.

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They did not accept that breast enlarging operations can be considered a

required business expense.

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