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Committee approves payroll‑tax exclusion to incentivize hiring recently released felony‑convicted workers, amended to a 3‑year window
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee recommended forwarding an ordinance creating a one‑time payroll‑expense tax exclusion (roughly $10,000 per hire) to incentivize hiring people with felony convictions; the committee amended the definition of eligible hires to those released within the previous three years and recommended the ordinance forward on a 2‑year sunset, with a recorded roll‑call (Mercury Aye; Kim Aye; Chu No).
The Budget & Finance Committee on Dec. 6 voted to recommend an ordinance that would create a payroll‑expense tax exclusion to encourage employers to hire people with felony convictions. The credit was described in committee testimony as roughly a $10,000 one‑time payroll‑tax benefit per qualified full‑time hire (equivalent to excluding $675,000 of payroll subject to the 1.5% payroll tax calculation used in the ordinance).
Sponsor Supervisor Mercury framed the proposal as a public‑safety and recidivism‑reduction tool, noting…
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