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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y., Apr 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- While most taxpayers have trouble with the numbers, a New York foot-fetish model is trying to figure out how to describe her occupation to tax officials.
It seems Sarah Patterson has a very unusual profession and is in something of a quandary over how to tell the Internal Revenue Service what she does for a living, a report in The New York Times said.
As a foot fetish model, Patterson, 22, earns more than $100 an hour letting her shapely feet be ogled and stroked. She can take home up to $400 for working a foot-fetish party. But it's all cash -- no withholding in the foot fetish industry.
And this is taxable income and there's plenty of advice on where to list that on the form. But what about when they ask for a profession?
"When they ask for your occupation, I can't imagine there would be a little box to check describing my job," Patterson said at a tax workshop at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in New York, the Times said. The workshop was sponsored by Prostitutes of New York to help those in the sex industry and allied trades become legitimate taxpayers.
Patterson told the Times she attended the meeting because she wants to file a tax return correctly. Another participant at the workshop had this advice: Mark the form "self-employed."
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