{"id":3830,"date":"2009-11-23T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:50:20","slug":"tax-elective-cosmetic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/23\/tax-elective-cosmetic-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax elective cosmetic surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3831\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/plastic-surgery-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"plastic surgery\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/plastic-surgery-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/plastic-surgery.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The Senate healthcare-reform bill includes a proposed 5-percent <a title=\"surtax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25800-DC-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m11d21-Cosmetic-surgery-tax-included-in-Senate-health-care-reform-bill\" target=\"_blank\">surtax<\/a> on elective cosmetic surgery to help finance the package.\u00a0 School of Law adjunct Professor <a title=\"Ameek Ponda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/taxation\/ponda.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ameek Ponda <\/a>says some will worry about how to draw the line between taxable cosmetic surgery and nontaxable reconstructive surgery.\u00a0 Line drawing in all tax law, he says, is necessary and important.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As a matter of tax policy, the proposed excise tax will seem odd to many because it penalizes one form of private behavior over other forms of private behavior. Botany is untaxed, but botox is; Facebook is untaxed, but facelifts are.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Ameek Ponda, 617-338-2443, <a href=\"mailto:aponda@sandw.com\">aponda@sandw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate healthcare-reform bill includes a proposed 5-percent surtax on elective cosmetic surgery to help finance the package.\u00a0 School of Law adjunct Professor Ameek Ponda says some will worry about how to draw the line between taxable cosmetic surgery and nontaxable reconstructive surgery.\u00a0 Line drawing in all tax law, he says, is necessary and important. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}