i'm suggesting that dancers receive a wage AND keep private dance money.If the club payed the dancers, the club would have to enter that as an operating expense in their books. Then they would legally have to issue the dancers a T4 slip. This would identify every dancer to the CRA. The CRA would hit each of them up to pay taxes on what they made doing lap dances ( based on what the CRA estimates an average lap dancer makes). Quite a few dancers would not like that. They do not want to be identified to the CRA.
sure, they pay income tax on their hourly wage; it's still a net increase to their income. some dancers, after the dj fee, lose money...after working for 5 hours. that's ridiculous to me.
their income from dances, well, as it is today, it is something that "ought to be" declared but i don't recall ever being handed a receipt