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full screen The Tax Agency taxes prostitutes. Archive image. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT
The center wants the government to stop the Tax Agency from taxing prostitutes. The party therefore proposes that the Riksdag calls on the government to produce an amendment to the law.
The gender equality policy spokesperson Helena Vilhelmsson (C) points out that prostitutes are exposed to a type of men’s violence against women and believes that it is then a “strange and bad signal” to tax prostitution.
– If an authority regards this as a job, what is to say that the employment agency or the social service should not do it when applying for support?
According to the Swedish Tax Agency, current legislation requires that the sale of sexual services be taxed like other services. Next week, the Center will propose a so-called committee initiative in the Riksdag to bring about a change in the law.
– It is important that this happens quickly, says Vilhelmsson.