NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEVADA
A proposal to levy a $5 tax on sex acts in Nevada has died in a state Senate committee.
The 3-4 vote Thursday in the Nevada Senate Taxation Committee was one shy of the four needed to keep the proposal afloat.
Committee Chairman Bob Coffin, the Las Vegas Democrat who sponsored the bill, says the state is desperate for revenue and has not collected taxes from prostitution since it was legalized in some rural counties more than 30 years ago.
Coffin has estimated that the tax would’ve raised at least $2 million a year. Nevada is facing a more than $2.8-billion revenue shortfall.
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