Vanity tax: Opponents say it restricts choice
Publish date: April 1, 2005
Beth Kapes
Beth Kapes
National report — A new precedent has been set in the cosmetic surgery industry, but it has nothing to do with surgical results. In September, New Jersey became the first state to enact a vanity tax on cosmetic surgery and Botox injections — a move that lawmakers elsewhere are now seeking to emulate, potentially leaving physicians and their patients at a loss.

