Australia’s “best” adult entertainer has lashed out at those who claim her X-rated profession isn’t a “real” job—arguing if that’s the case, porn stars “shouldn’t have to pay tax.” Billie Beever, who won Best Female Porn Star at this year’s Australian Adult Industry Choice Awards, said she’s often being told her line of work isn’t legitimate. “I’m constantly being told what I do isn’t a real job and [that] I ‘need to get a real job,’ so if that’s what the general public think, then why should creators and sex workers be paying 10 times more tax than they all are with their regular jobs?” she said.
“Getting told this isn’t a real job frustrates the living hell out of me. They don’t realize it’s real money, real time, real marketing, real bills,” she added. One woman who was hit with a huge tax bill after earning a fortune online was Tasha Paige, who had to pay $176,000. “My tax bill is actually $150,000 for the last 12 months … not including the $26,000 I need to pay on top of that for GST because apparently my body is an object—that’s why I have to pay GST,” Paige said in a viral TikTok recently.
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