资料图:阿姆斯特丹的妓女们

　　The taxman is homing in onAmsterdam's thriving sex industry, warning the city's prostitutes it is time they paid their share.

　　荷兰税务部门表示，将对阿姆斯特丹繁荣的性服务业征税，并提醒该市的性工作者到了交税的时候了。

　　The country legalised the practice a decade ago, but it is only now getting around tolooking at the sex workers who advertise themselves in shop windows in Amsterdam's red-light district.

　　荷兰性服务业在10年前合法化，但直到最近才考虑对阿姆斯特丹红灯区的“橱窗女郎”征税。

　　'We began at the larger places, the brothels, so now we're moving on to the window landlords and the ladies,' said a spokeswoman for the country's tax service.

　　荷兰税务部门的一位女发言人说：“我们先从妓院这些较大的营业场所开征，现在要向橱窗店主和站街女郎们推进了。”

　　The move is meeting little opposition, even among prostitutes - though some are skeptical it can be enforced.

　　这项征税措施并未遇到太多反对，甚至一些性工作者也表示赞同，但一些人质疑这一计划的可行性。

　　Prostitution has flourished in the city since the 1600s, when the country was a major naval power and sailors arrived at the port looking for a good time.

　　自17世纪开始，性服务业就在阿姆斯特丹兴盛起来，当时荷兰是一个海军强国，海员抵岸后常去寻欢作乐。

　　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.

　　性工作者被告知她们将被进行“官僚式”审计。上周，阿姆斯特丹的主要报纸刊登了一则“致房东和橱窗女郎的通知”。

　　Although the Dutch state is not going to make a fortune just by squeezing the vice girls, the sex trade is a serious industry that went almost entirely untaxed.

　　尽管荷兰并非要通过压榨橱窗女郎来增收，但性服务业作为一种正当行业却几乎免税却是不争的事实。

　　The Central Bureau of Statistics estimates prostitution generates ￡550 million a year. Under Dutch law, girls should be charging 19 per cent sales tax on each transaction.

　　荷兰中央统计局估计，性服务业年营业额高达5.5亿英镑。按照荷兰法律，性服务者每完成一笔“交易”，应缴纳19%的营业税。

　　Profits are personal income, taxed at anywhere from 33 per cent for someone making less than ￡15,000 a year to 52 per cent for people making more than ￡45,000.

　　此外，性工作者还需按收入高低缴纳个人所得税。年收入低于1.5万英镑的性工作者缴纳比例为33%，而高于4.5万英镑的性工作者缴纳比例为52%。

　　A study in October estimated there are slightly fewer than 8,000 prostitutes and 3,000 working behind windows.

　　去年十月的一项调查估计，荷兰目前有刚不到8千名性工作者，其中有3千名是橱窗女郎。