I don't know I'm confused as hell.
I mean where do we draw the line. What if I enjoy a woman's company and take her out for a £200 meal and buy her a £500 purse and not care about any sexy time in return.
Now if sexy-time happens later that night the money spent on the meal and purse is suddenly taxable? And if sexy-time doesn't happen that night it's not taxable? What if it happens next day?
All very confusing.
You understand that other twitch streamers who do it as a job, pay taxes on their earnings. People who make a living via patreon donations for videos/content they produce... pay tax on their earnings.
This is no different. Had a friend who worked as a cam model for a while, she paid taxes and the majority of the other models she knew paid taxes, a few thought they didn't need to because it wasn't a 'job' despite them doing it for hours almost every day and being their only source of income and being paid through something like MFC which is a business and 'sells' tokens to the viewers and pays out to the girls based on number of tokens they get. They get paid, full stop because it's work. The few that didn't get paid eventually got noticed anyway due to their living situation and the money they were splashing around. A friend of theirs ended up getting audited and having not paid taxes after like 7 years of working owed a shedload of cash. Even then she agreed a payback deal, continued working and just made a lot less 'profit' till the debt was paid off.
A job is a job is a job. None of the guys paying these girls knows them personally, none of the guys are taking them on real dates, some of them absolutely do go on paid dates, escorts basically. Just because two people on a normal date might have a guy buy a woman a gift doesn't mean every single time a woman in any situation receives the same item it's a gift between friends.
Honestly if you can't tell the difference between a real date and a real gift between two people with a close personal relationship and giving money to a woman who works online then you're never going to get it, though it's an exceptionally obvious difference that I fail to see how anyone could not work out the difference.
As with the BBC thing, she literally states it's her job. There are loads of sex workers around the world, and loads of streamers around the world who put in self employed tax forms and pay their taxes, then there are a few people who combine both but don't bother paying tax because they think if they aren't wearing work clothes and leaving the house it's not a real job, or even worse those who know it's a job but because they think it's online and film in their home that they can simply get away with not bothering to pay tax. Both sets of people are committing a crime, one unintentionally and one intentionally, both sets should have to pay the tax they owe the same way that a builder, or a non showing your boobs twitch streamer, or a youtube content creator or a stock broker has to if they've 'forgotten' to pay taxes for years.
Sure, the douchebags reporting them out of vengeance aren't less of a douchebag because they are reporting these women for real crimes, but these women aren't victims because someone reports them for breaking the law just because their intentions are revenge.
