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In reply to the discussion: Amazon - Get The F Out Of Seattle - Take Your Greedy CEO To Hell With You [View all]Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,430 posts)25. From yesterday's Puget Sound Business Journal
The following data compares the current yearly local tax bill for a hypothetical company with 200 full-time employees and $100 million in taxable gross receipts in several Puget Sound-area cities:
Seattle: $429,000
Bellevue: $189,651
Bothell: $4,564
Kirkland: $21,100
Redmond: $22,400
Renton: $85,150
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2018/05/02/seattles-head-tax-could-be-big-win-for-neighboring.html?ana=e_tf&s=newsletter&ed=2018-05-03&u=ColXVN5SPzQtLHFP87ho2w07857290&t=1525392155&j=81384651
Also objection to the head tax is not limited to Amazon.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/head-tax-worries-other-seattle-tech-companies-association-leader-says/281-548321621
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Amazon - Get The F Out Of Seattle - Take Your Greedy CEO To Hell With You [View all]
PaulX2
May 2018
OP
Bezos 33 Million - Gates 4.6 Billion - Get My Drift? Gates/Buffet Pledges 95% To Charity Bezos Nada
PaulX2
May 2018
#7
Amazon are not going anywhere...Seattle has become the upper west coast Silicon Valley.
HipChick
May 2018
#6
With Untaxed Corporations Calling The Shots And Construction Workers Running Cover For Them
PaulX2
May 2018
#11
7 horrible things that could happen to cities if they win Amazon's HQ2 bid
Henry Krinkle
May 2018
#23
So you really don't give a shit about those employees on food stamps.. you just want them gone..
X_Digger
May 2018
#32
You don't care about the people who need the jobs... so what is your agenda?
Demsrule86
May 2018
#48