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Taxes

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Prop. 29 Losing Voter Support, Though Cigarette Tax Remains Popular

    What can you get for $42 million? A penthouse apartment at the top of the St. Regis. Six years of Adonal Foyle. Roy Lichtenstein's peephole painting. Also, a 14 percent drop in support for Proposition 29, which would raise the cigarette tax and fund cancer research. In March, a poll by the Publi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Weeklong Tax Day Happy Hour at Credo's Pizzeria: 99-Cent Pizza for the 99 Percent

    What: Tax Day Happy Hour Where: Credo Restaurant, 360 Pine (at Montgomery) When: Monday, April 16 through Friday, April 20, 2:30 to 6 p.m. Cost: Pizzas cost $.99 with purchase of a glass of wine or cocktail The Rundown: Tax season is finally at an end on Monday (unless you've filed for an extens ... More >>

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Soup to Nuts: Crazy Food Taxes Penalize the Poor, Benefit the Rich

    What: Tax Day Happy Hour Where: Credo Restaurant, 360 Pine (at Montgomery) When: Monday, April 16 through Friday, April 20, 2:30 to 6 p.m. Cost: Pizzas cost $.99 with purchase of a glass of wine or cocktail The Rundown: Tax season is finally at an end on Monday (unless you've filed for an extens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    City's Incredible Shrinking Budget Deficit Also Shrinks Leverage with Labor

    ​The news that another $60 million has been whittled off the city's projected budget deficit could be considered cause for revelry. But don't break out the pointy hats just yet. For one thing, the city is still $170 million in the hole based on the current calculations -- much less than before but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Tea Party Warrior: Report Medical Marijuana Clubs to the IRS and Get Rich

    ​For Paul Chabot, the War on Drugs is personal indeed: Before he became a Navy man, a campus cop, and a former National Drug Control Policy staffer, he was in drug rehab for alcohol and marijuana addiction himself -- at the young age of 12, according to his online bio.In his latest tactical maneuv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Could a Soda Tax Save Lives?

    ​In April last year, the California state Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation shot down AB 669, Assemblymember Bill Monning's attempt to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on all sweetened beverages, such as sodas, energy drinks, and sweetened fruit-juice drinks. Monning's office estimated that the ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

    ​In April last year, the California state Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation shot down AB 669, Assemblymember Bill Monning's attempt to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on all sweetened beverages, such as sodas, energy drinks, and sweetened fruit-juice drinks. Monning's office estimated that the ... More >>

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Miracle Faker: Rick Perry's Texas Teaches America the Wrong Lessons

    ​In April last year, the California state Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation shot down AB 669, Assemblymember Bill Monning's attempt to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on all sweetened beverages, such as sodas, energy drinks, and sweetened fruit-juice drinks. Monning's office estimated that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    AB 152 Proposes Tax Credits for Farmers Donating to Food Banks

    Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes.​Just as the California state legislature fights for its paychecks, another food-related bill fights to make it through committee in the Senate after passing unanimously through the Assembly.AB 152, introduced by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes, is intended to give reli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    San Francisco's $2.8 million Corporate Welfare Tab

    Matt Smith illustrationUp with corporate welfare!​Gov. Jerry Brown has moved to cut public money thrown at enterprise tax zones, which provide breaks to companies in certain disadvantaged areas, including San Francisco's financial district and SOMA.But San Francisco companies are veritable corpora ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Twitter Confirms It Will Stay in San Francisco

    Done deal ​Much to nobody's surprise, Twitter officials signed a lease to keep the multibillion-dollar company in San Francisco -- tax break and all. And although progressives balked at the idea of cutting the microblogging giant a six-year tax break to keep its headquarters in San Francisco, they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    TurboTax Insists Users Have Middle Name -- Or You Can't E-File

    ​Relax! While April 15 is, traditionally, known as Tax Day, you have until Monday to get this thing done. (This, conveniently, will provide one more answer to the query "why is this night different from all other nights?").But if you're hoping to e-file -- and you have no middle name -- you may be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    San Jose: How Deep Does the Inferiority Complex Go?

    Do you know the way to San Jose?Greg Dewar/Flickr​In its never-ending quest to be San Francisco, it's so clear that San Jose will go to great lengths to take away anything or anyone that makes the City by the Bay, well, the City by the Bay. Funny as this faux rivalry might seem, there are two poli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Twitter Promises to Stay in San Francisco -- if City Gives Tax Break

    Just a wink and a nod​It appears a sop to corporate blackmail does work. The Examiner is reporting that Twitter fired off a letter to city supervisors earlier today, saying it will stay in San Francisco if the city signs off on a deal giving the microblogging giant a mega tax break. "Twitter is co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Newsom Behind Deal to Keep Twitter in San Francisco

    Newsom is behind the curtain​Two weeks ago, SF Weekly reported that the Twitter tax break deal reeked of former Mayor Gavin Newsom -- and now we know why. City supervisors had proposed legislation with sweet tax breaks for microblogging giant Twitter that would entice the company to remain in San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    A Moderate Move: S.F. Supervisors Try to Lure Twitter with Tax Breaks

    Moderately progressive​Yesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Moderately progressive​Yesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    RAND Corp.: California Pot Initiative a Stoner's Dream

    Intently studying the RAND report...​The RAND Corporation, the partially government-funded think tank known for stoner-friendly reading material such as "A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates," today released a report suggesting California's marijuana legalization initiative will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Guardian Editor: How Dare You Call Me Anti-Tax?

    The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond today called us with some spirited criticism of an item we ran last week stating the paper's editors would personally benefit from Prop. 13 legislation they endorsed.In the item, we noted that the paper had endorsed Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's AB 2492, whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Guardian Editors Would Benefit from Prop. 13 Legislation They Endorsed

    It's always nice to get in the game early and pull up the ladder after you...​On Nov. 3, 2003 the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Warren Buffett in which the Nebraska billionaire explained his negative view of California's Proposition 13, the 1978 law that limits property tax assessmen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Warning, Procrastinator: Almost No Post Offices Open Until Midnight on Tax Day

    He can't save you now, tax procrastinator...​IRS statistics reveal 80 percent of returns have been e-filed this year. In the good old days, folks who'd left their taxes until on or about April 15 could count on hordes of postal workers swarming the streets to grab the tax forms out of their hands ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    New City Program Helps Homeowners Slash PG&E Bill

    Look! Green! Green!​But Some Consumers May Be Better Off Looking Elsewhere To Fund Green Home Improvements, Program's Architect AcknowledgesMayor Gavin Newsom this evening will hold an "Internet town hall" to tout a new program helping property owners pay for energy-saving improvements. Dubbed Gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    City Economist: Mayor's Payroll Tax Plan Would Create Thousands of Jobs -- Cost City $72M

    But it's going to take money -- a whole lot of money -- to do it right, child​A report moments ago sent out by the city's chief economist, Ted Egan, claims that Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposed payroll tax revision will spur the creation of perhaps 4,300 jobs over the next two years -- but at a cost ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2009

    Obama's stimulus money will increase traffic, but not bridge safety

    But it's going to take money -- a whole lot of money -- to do it right, child​A report moments ago sent out by the city's chief economist, Ted Egan, claims that Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposed payroll tax revision will spur the creation of perhaps 4,300 jobs over the next two years -- but at a cost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Did City's Goof Cause Tax Collectors to Overcharge San Francisco's Small Businesses?

    A ballot proposition that raised the amount of money San Francisco businesses need to pay their employees before being subjected to city payroll taxes seems to have gone unnoticed by the very people charged with enforcing it -- San Francisco's tax collectors. Last year, voters overwhelmingly approve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    S.F. Cracks List of Nation's Three Fastest-Plummeting Housing Markets (We Took Bronze)

    New statistics show you absolutely can't afford these houses, but they now likely cost 28 percent less than last year's ridiculous pricesWhat do Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Francisco have in common? Yep: sketchy nightclubs and plummeting housing prices. According to S&P data released today, San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Mayor, Board President's Payroll Tax Plans are Different; Supes Notified Via Press Release

    It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    Care Not Cash Volunteer Recommends Work, Ass-Kicking to Homeless in SF Weekly Letters

    It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2007

    New School Tax To Hit Ballot by June 2008

    It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board ... More >>

  • News

    November 8, 2006

    Rent to Evict

    For years, many low-income renters called the building their home. That's until a developer, who told the government it would be affordable, raised the rents.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 19, 2005

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, February 11, 2004

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    The Tax Man Cometh

    The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

  • News

    August 13, 2003

    Gimme Shelters

    After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    Common Cents

    The Chronicle should stop the dubious "news stories" and openly rail against a sales tax hike that hurts its major advertisers -- and slaughters the poor

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    The Ghost of Scandals Past

    Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  • News

    February 20, 2002

    A Taxing Problem

    Why are two candidates for assessor trying to take credit for a computer system that has been an abysmal failure?

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Indecent Disclosure

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Opening Pandora's Box

    Once-secret documents reveal the tobacco industry's battle to gut anti-smoking education in California. Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and former Gov. Pete Wilson helped.

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    By George!

    A forgotten San Francisco economist survives, barely, in his adopted city

  • News

    May 6, 1998

    Downtown's Fairy Godmother

    Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    The Redevelopment Sinkhole

    Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

  • Calendar

    February 12, 1997

    The Grid

    Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    State Ballot Measures

    Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

  • News

    March 20, 1996

    The Burton Money Machine

    John Burton's 1040s reveal that politics doesn't pay

  • Calendar

    July 5, 1995

    Candidate Promises Citizen Mayor Delivers?

    John Burton's 1040s reveal that politics doesn't pay

  • Calendar

    June 28, 1995

    Paper Trails

    John Burton's 1040s reveal that politics doesn't pay

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    Dog Bites

    John Burton's 1040s reveal that politics doesn't pay

  • News

    May 10, 1995

    The Last Tycoon

    Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.

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