Should face-lifts be taxable? What about hair trans-plants? Liposuction? A little-noticed
section in the technical paper outlining the federal government's proposed goods and …

As cosmetic procedures become more widely used, disagreement about their status as
medical procedures intensifies. When Senator Harry Reid proposed a 5 percent tax on …

During the past several years, as most state govern-ments descended into financial deficits,
governors and legislators have begun looking for new ways to balance their budgets, either …

During the health care debate, the US Senate considered a tax on elective cosmetic surgery
as one way to raise revenue to pay for the legislation. In November of 2009, the Senate bill …

In 2004, New Jersey became the first state to institute a tax on cosmetic medical procedures.
Assembly Bill 3125 required that physicians performing elective cosmetic medical …

Politicians in the United States are looking to physician services for taxes to shore up and
offset fiscal distress and provide more funding for their states' government initiatives. Specific …

Legislative action is being taken in California, Florida, and New Jersey, most prominently, to
restrict physicians in their nonhospital surgical practices. These actions are largely due to …

This article is a comprehensive legal and policy review of an amendment introduced in the
2010 Canadian federal budget to exclude cosmetic medical expenses from the medical …

These days, appearances are everything. Your patients want" perfect" skin, the kind they see
in magazines and on television. Uneven skin tone, enlarged pores, acne scars, and wrinkles …

On the surface, the recent proposal by the Senate Finance Committee to place an excise tax
on cosmetic surgery to increase government revenues for funding the new health care …