The sound of salons: France's hairdressers turn off radio in tax protest

Studios fall quiet as owners fight charge for playing music to their customersThere was the usual blast of hairdryers and whispered questions about holiday plans, but hair salons across France sounded a little different today as they turned off their sound systems in a nationwide protest against a tax on background music.Hairdressers say they are victims of a national extortion racket because they have to pay a tax to play the radio in their salons.The dispute stems from France's fiercely prote...

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