Show at Rumors shut down by police

Rumor has it (ha!) that Rumors was shut down by nearly a dozen police and ABC officials tonight. Current word is that the boutique failed to pay income tax on the revenue generated by their off hours shows. Update: Firstly, Rumors is still open for business. The show was shut down, not the business. The […]

April 30, 2009; 8:48 PM • by Ross Catrow

Rumor has it (ha!) that Rumors was shut down by nearly a dozen police and ABC officials tonight. Current word is that the boutique failed to pay income tax on the revenue generated by their off hours shows.

Update:

• Firstly, Rumors is still open for business. The show was shut down, not the business.
• The officials had seen “flyers” around for the show and noted 5$ admission charges. They showed up and despite the “5$ suggested donation” sign served the owner with a summons.

Second update:

Casey, the owner has commented over at Fan of the Fan with some additional details:

I have had to cancel all shows, and we received a summons for “failure to report attendance taxes”. [removed at author’s request — Ed.]

Third Update

Casey has asked me to remove her comments while she deals with the legal issues.

Maybe someone with more law savvy can explain what is going on here. Honestly how much revenue could we possibly be talking about here?

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