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"We are not
paying taxes any more. Effective immediately: Free Entrance!
Free Drinks! Free Sex!" the Pascha establishment in Salzburg
posted on its website. A woman who answered the phone there on
Sunday said it was no joke.
The Oesterreich newspaper showed a picture of men queued up
outside to take advantage of the unusual offer.
It quoted owner Hermann Mueller as saying he would compensate
from his own pocket the up to 10,000 euros ($11,270) a month
that prostitutes working at the club will forego.
Mueller, who also operates brothels in four other cities in
Germany and Austria, has complained in past media interviews
about what he says has been punitive taxation and regulation of
his businesses. He said he had paid nearly 5 million euros in
taxes in Salzburg alone over the past decade.
(Reporting by Michael Shields; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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