New York Daily News – State Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick says the bill would target businesses that have been deemed sales tax exempt, such as outdoor concerts, boxing matches and pleasure houses.

The tax man may soon be visiting a few Nevada brothels.

A bill to be introduced in the Nevada legislature on Wednesday will propose an 8% flat tax for live entertainment at business ventures in the state ranging from brothels to the annual Burning Man festival.

Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick (D-North Las Vegas) says the bill would target events and businesses that have either been deemed exempt from state sales taxes or have simply been overlooked.

Those operations include brothels, which Nevada lawmakers have been hesitant to tax out of fear that doing so would further legitimize the stigmatized, but legal trade.

Many outdoor concerts, boxing matches, and the like are currently exempt from taxation, and the bill aims to bring them in line with other businesses in the state.

“We want to make sure everyone is contributing,” Senate Revenue Committee Chairman Ruben Kihuen, (D-Las Vegas), told the Las Vegas Review Journal. “They should pay something. Constituents of ours are making them profitable.”