from the telegraph page
= “The tax inspector explained that the tax is based on the number of people dancing,” Nicholas Boochie, artistic director of Bonnefooi, told local website Bruzz. But the tax has raised a question we’d never thought we’d have to ponder: “Is throwing your arms in the air dancing?” Boochie asked, presumably looking for a way to avoid paying the fee.
According to the city’s finance department, public dancing is a costly business for Brussels, “entail[ing] additional expenditure, in particular in the field of safety, public peace and public order.” The ‘dancing tax’ covers these outgoings.
