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Controller outlines gross-receipts tax proposals; advocates and businesses weigh costs and jobs trade-offs
Summary
The Controller's Office presented competing proposals to move San Francisco from a payroll-based business tax to a phased-in gross-receipts system with progressive tiered rates. Two versions would generate different registration-fee revenues ($13M vs $40M); the Controller projected net job gains over 20 years but stakeholders differed sharply in public comment. The committee agreed to send both measures to the full Board without recommendation.
Controller’s Office economists presented detailed economic-impact modeling for two competing business-tax proposals that would replace or phase out the payroll expense tax with a phased-in gross-receipts tax and a new registration-fee schedule.
Ted Egan of the Controller’s Office summarized key features: six industry schedules with marginal rate tiers, a $1,000,000 gross-receipts small-business exemption (with modified treatment for residential lessors), apportionment rules for multi-jurisdiction businesses, and exclusions or credits for certain industries (including conversion of select payroll-based exclusions into…
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