Saturday 16 June 2018

Seattle to strike affordable housing tax after Amazon-led coalition’s prolonged protest

Jeff Bezos wasn’t about to let a head tax on Amazon’s 45,000 employees take a chunk out of his bottom-line. Led by Amazon, a coalition of Seattle companies banded together to successfully oppose a new tax of about $275 per employee for any business that generated more than $20 million in revenue per year, according to CNBC. (When the city initially proposed the tax, it was pegged at $500 per employee, however Amazon’s outcry prompted […]



source https://therealdeal.com/2018/06/16/seattle-to-strike-affordable-housing-tax-after-amazon-led-coalitions-prolonged-protest/

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