As California continues looking at a massive budget deficit (somewhere between $8 billion and $20 billion) some in the state legislature are looking to implement a tax on the Adult Entertainment Industry. A 25% tax on film production, strip, er, adult entertainment clubs, and pornographic videos.
Larry Kaplan, head of the California Branch of the Association of Club Executives, said that this proposed legislation would “…devastate the San Fernando Valley…[I]t would take $3.5 billion out of California.” Matt Grey, a lobbyist for the Adult Entertainment Film Industry, told Reuters that it’s cheaper to fly performers to Bucharest, Romania than to drive them to the Valley.
Meanwhile, Republicans are still promising to block all tax increases so it’s likely that this porn tax is doa.