The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is the Australian Tax Office. They get today's award for allowing strippers, prostitutes and lap dancers to get tax deductions for sex toys and lingerie.

This is unfair! Murderers should get deductions for bullets. Bank robbers for the pens they use to write hold-up notes. I should be able to bill police when I'm pulled over for a traffic stop. Heck my time is valuable. Time for sarcastic laughter.

The world is truly upside down and for giving further proof of it, The Australian Tax Office is today's Knucklehead of the Day.

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SYDNEY, Australia - Prostitutes, strippers and lap dancers can claim tax deductions for adult toys and lingerie, officials said Friday, as the Australian Taxation Office issued a list of deductible items for the sex industry.

Condoms, lubricants, gels and oils are among a myriad of other items that these workers can claim against tax, according to a fact sheet issued on the office's Web site.

While they cannot claim deductions for fitness classes that keep them in shape, the tax office ruled they can claim the cost of dance lessons.

"You can claim the cost of replacing or repairing things like equipment, adult novelties and other apparatus used in your work," the office advises, under a section titled "tools of trade."

"This is just another one of our occupational lists that we put together to help people," a taxation office spokeswoman said on customary condition of anonymity.

Cross posted to Bullwinkle Blog