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San Jose: Proposed ballot measure could alter city's business tax
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29308197/san-jose-proposed-ballot-measure-could-alter-citysOf the Bay Area's major cities, San Jose stands alone in not taxing its large businesses based on their earnings. But the local professor who led a successful 2012 ballot measure to raise the city's minimum wage is fixing to change that in the coming year.
Advocates argue the city's high-tech giants that helped give Silicon Valley its name aren't paying their "fair share" of taxes to help patch up pot holes, hire more police officers and clean up city parks....
Scott Myers-Lipton, a sociology professor at San Jose State, and the force behind a ballot measure that raised the city's minimum wage by 25 percent, is shopping around an initiative that could tax businesses based on their gross revenue within the city -- a practice already underway in Oakland, San Francisco and 28 other California cities.
"We're one of the only major cities in California that doesn't have a gross-receipts tax," Myers-Lipton said. "Other cities have modernized their business tax."
Advocates argue the city's high-tech giants that helped give Silicon Valley its name aren't paying their "fair share" of taxes to help patch up pot holes, hire more police officers and clean up city parks....
Scott Myers-Lipton, a sociology professor at San Jose State, and the force behind a ballot measure that raised the city's minimum wage by 25 percent, is shopping around an initiative that could tax businesses based on their gross revenue within the city -- a practice already underway in Oakland, San Francisco and 28 other California cities.
"We're one of the only major cities in California that doesn't have a gross-receipts tax," Myers-Lipton said. "Other cities have modernized their business tax."
Myers-Lipton for mayor!
