Prostitutes to be brought into legal economy. Story No. Wide of women waiting near bus to receive tax advice. They really just dance around the issue. But in fact, for a long time now, the state has had to face the fact that this is an existing situation, that it's a real phenomenon, and we should pull our heads out of the sand and see that there's always been prostitution in the past, present and most likely the future of the world.
Various of Foldi at the Prostitute's Interest Protection office. First of all because they become part of the pension system, and they can receive health care from the state and also because they would finally get the chance to apply for a bank loan so that they can buy their own apartment.
Various set up shots of Gizi, a woman working as a prostitute. Their legal status and their source of income should be from something else and not from the fact that every day they must submit themselves to unknown men and provide those men services - which by the way I would call neither 'service' nor 'work. Hungary is using a bus to deliver a message to a new group of businesswomen - the country's sex workers.
Officials say their mission on the bus to deliver tax and accounting tips. Roughly twenty women came for counselling on Tuesday, boarding the bus to talk to a tax specialist and a lawyer. Prostitution has been legal - under certain conditions - in Hungary since , but no woman has ever paid taxes on her income. In an effort to bring sex workers into the legal economy, officials announced last week that Hungary would allow them to apply for an entrepreneur's permit.
The permit, which does not reveal the holder's occupation, allows sex workers to give receipts to customers and become part of the legal economy by paying taxes and making social security contributions. Hungary's sex industry, including the production of pornographic materials, generates an estimated one b billion US dollars annually.
