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Supervisors advance amended gross‑receipts tax plan; final measures continued for further review
Summary
After months of negotiations, supervisors approved amendments to a proposed shift from San Francisco’s payroll tax to a gross‑receipts tax and agreed to place an amended measure for committee review; one related proposal was tabled.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors advanced an amended proposal to replace the city's payroll tax with a gross‑receipts tax and to raise new local revenue, but deferred final approval for additional review. The board's action bundled technical changes, rate adjustments by sector and a revised revenue target into an “amendment of the whole,” and the measure was continued to a committee-of-the-whole hearing next week.
Supervisor John Avalos, who led one of the competing proposals earlier in the year, and Mayor Ed Lee's administration negotiated changes with the controller’s office and business stakeholders before bringing the amended text to the board. Controller Ben Rosenfield…
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