Thursday, May 3, 2018

Attention HQ2 cities: Amazon hates taxes so much it's threatening to move jobs out of Seattle

Amazon doesn’t kid around when it comes to taxes. It’s said that Jeff Bezos chose to headquarter Amazon in Washington state because there’s no income tax. Then Amazon spent years fighting legislation that would force it to collect and remit sales tax in states where it doesn’t have a physical presence. Now, the city of Seattle has proposed added what’s being called a “head tax” on employers that would be based on the number of employees and their salaries. It aims to raise funds to expand homelessness…



from https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2018/05/03/attention-hq2-cities-amazon-hates-taxes-so-much.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
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