Quote Originally Posted by Kerry View Post
You don't pay the tax based on if your client is in jail. You get a 15% tax on your hourly rate. It would then be up to you to absorb the cost or pass it on to your customers. That 15% would then be used to fund the new jail. After that the money would be used for anti-crime education. Bail bondsmen would pay a gross receipts tax or a percentage of the bail as a tax. They to would be given the choice of absorbing the cost or passing it on to the customer.
My practice has very little to do with criminal law. I have one case in the office right now which is criminal, and only involved one overnight stay in the drunk tank for my client as far as jail time. Why should my divorce and child custody clients pay around $30/hour of my time to build a jail?