Amazon and other businesses squelched a Seattle tax to fund homeless services, leaving the city with no clear path forward to deal with the crisis. Many cities that are experiencing a tech boom are...
Seattle has passed a watered-down version of its tax to help the homeless, but Amazon and Starbucks are still angry.
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To address homelessness, the Seattle City Council is considering a Progressive Tax on Business.
" Other cities have implemented similar taxes, but critics say Seattle's tax could threaten... I don't understand why businesses think it's wrong to help." John Boufford with the...
Seattle is one of the most progressive cities in the country. It’s the place where the Fight for $15 movement first gained traction, where the city council last year tried to levy a tax on the city’s richest residents, and where local government passed one of the country’s first secure scheduling ordinances to give shift workers more notice of when they’d be working. And now, Seattle businesses have had enough. Less than a month after the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a “head...
By JEFF STEIN | The Washington Post · The Seattle City Council on Tuesday voted to repeal a tax hike on large employers that it instituted less than a month ago, backing down from a plan fiercely opposed by Amazon.com and much of the city’s business community. With Amazon and Starbucks funding a ballot challenge to repeal the tax, the city’s Democratic council struck down the tax levy they approved about four weeks ago. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, D, is expected to approve the repeal. ...
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The companies funded opposition to the tax that would have raised money to help with Seattle's ongoing homeless problem. Critics worried about homelessness growing despite millions spent already.