I am sure, someone is still collecting those fees. . . . .
If not how does one explain that relatively small businesses, many of which are owned and operated by former "prostitutes" are shut down all at once, even though they were pretty much "hidden". If I had a dollar for every time I saw some gringos walking up and down a street looking at all the buildings with a quizzical look on their face, trying to find these places, I'd be poor, but I would have a few hundred bucks for beer money. I remember when that carnival was in town, I was at a florest ordering flowers, and saw 4 gringos walk back and forth on calle santiago 5-6 times. i walked up and said. . ."spa michelle", they smiled and nodded. They had no idea that the unmarked house that you had to enter through the garage was a "casa".
OTOH, places like Remington Palaca, Lapsus, and Tabu are still open. Any tourist brave enough to walk out of the juragua back entrance will run right into 3 sleazey clip joints, and will be aproached by touts offering to take them to numerous others. heck most taxi drivers will offer to take any gringo to remington, modelos, pablitos etc, as they get a commsion. I bet the percentage of these touts and taxi drivers that ever heard of spa michelle is tiny. That is because most of the customers even if these places in gazcue ar e Dominican. . . . .