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(12 Jan 2011) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of canal tour boat passing through central Amsterdam 2. Cyclists and pedestrians crossing bridge with brothels in background 3. Customer looking through window, and enters brothel 4. Scantily clad prostitutes in a brothel window in red light district 5. Wide tilt down of the exterior of Netherlands Tax Authority office 6. Office workers seen through windows 7. Various of tax office workers 8. SOUNDBITE: (Dutch) Oscar Brenninkmeijer, head of the management team, Netherlands Tax Authority: "We have been collecting tax (from sex workers) in recent years but not on that great a scale. However, we don't know a substantial number of the ladies in the business as they come from abroad and other parts of Europe." 9. Tracking shot of exterior of brothels, prostitutes in windows 10. Prostitute in brothel window 11. Set up shot of Mariska Majoor, former sex worker and representative from the Prostitution Information Centre 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mariska Majoor, former sex worker, Prostitution Information Centre: "As a sex worker you have to write down all the money you make in your cash book per day and on the other side of your cash book you have to write down all the money you spend and you have to keep all the receipts of that. So, the tax people always have a way of checking on you and if they want if they don't believe you they can count your condoms or go to your home address to see how you live." 13. People walking through red light district ++NIGHT SHOT++ 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mariska Majoor, former sex worker, Prostitution Information Centre: "One things that sex workers are really afraid of is losing their anonymousy (anonymity). That is the most important thing if you work in the sex industry. You are really afraid to be registered in some database somewhere." ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 15. Mid of street lamp in red light district, brothel in background 16. Peep show sign 17. Pull focus to mid of brothels STORYLINE Workers in the world's oldest profession are about to get a lesson in the harsh reality of Europe's new age of austerity. Amid budget cuts and falling revenues, the Dutch government has warned prostitutes in Amsterdam's famed red light district to expect a business-only visit from the taxman sometime this year. Prostitution has flourished in Amsterdam since the 1600s, when the Netherlands was a major naval power and sailors swaggered into the city's port looking for a good time. The country legalised the practice a decade ago, but authorities are only now getting around to looking to sex workers for taxes. "We have been collecting tax (from sex workers) in recent years but not on that great a scale," said Oscar Brenninkmeijer, an official from the country's Tax Authority. "We don't know a substantial number of the ladies in the business as they come from abroad and other parts of Europe," he added. Prostitutes were told they would be audited in typically bureaucratic fashion, with a notice addressed "to landlords and window prostitutes in Amsterdam" published last week in the city's main newspaper. The move is meeting with little formal opposition, even among prostitutes, though some are sceptical it can be enforced. However, Mariska Majoor, a former sex worker who now runs an information centre for prostitutes, said many sex workers, in her experience, fear loosing their anonymity, which could result in a nationwide database. Though the Dutch state is not going to fill its coffers just by taxing prostitutes, the sex trade is a serious industry that went almost entirely untaxed until legalisation. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...