SF News S.F Mulls Taxing Things Like Air BnB, 'Cottage Industries' Late last week we heard that City Treasurer Jose Cisneros had heeded the call of hotel unions and the Tenants Union to impose the city's 14% hotel tax on AirBnB rentals. Now we're
SF News Jerry Brown Wants Tax Hikes On 1% Gov. Jerry Brown's new measure will ask voters to raise taxes on the wealthy over the next five years. His tax initiative, slated for the November 2012 ballot as soon as Friday, could
SF News Time to Go Shopping! California Sales Tax Drops Tomorrow Since Jerry Brown couldn't rally enough Republicans to extend the state sales tax, San Francisco's steep 9.5% tariff on retail goods will drop slightly to an almost-manageable 8.5% rate starting tomorrow.
SF News California Tax Revenue $2 Billion More Than Projected The math wizards in Sacramento are reporting a $2 billion bump in tax revenue after running the numbers on those taxes you filed in April. Eager and optimistic analysts are already saying it's
SF News Tick Tock, It's Tax Time The ideas of April approacheth, which means it's time to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, otherwise known as filing your taxes. This year the ides are even pushed back three days, giving
SF News Twitter Tax Break Issue Causes a Stir, Could End Up on November Ballot As the Board's Budget and Finance committee gets set to review the Twitter Tax Break (neé "Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion in Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area") this Wednesday, rumblings are afoot. A
SF News Brown's "Painful" $12.5 Billion Budget Cut Proposal "What I propose will be painful," Governor Jerry Brown said to reporters at the Capitol after unveiling a budget proposal that, among other things, will include an 8 percent to 10 percent cut
misc San Franciscans Fifth Biggest Tax-Filing Procrastinators in 2009 Apparently Turbo Tax, for the past nine years, has been doing an annual tally of which cities have the largest number of procrastinating citizens when it comes to filing their taxes. San Francisco,
misc Don't Forget to File a Schedule M With Your Taxes! Heard about that new Schedule M form that will give you a $400 break on your taxes if you qualify? Neither had we, but luckily CBS Money Watch posted a reminder today. Single-payers
SF News Opponents Question Meg Whitman's Unpaid Taxes, Offshore Investments When you run for office, your life will be scrutinized. For former eBay CEO and gubernatorial Republican candidate Meg Whitman, she's been hit hard over the last week. Today, the California Democratic Party
SF News Don't Have Your I.D.? You Can't Vote on a Regular Ballot, Says Initiative 80 initiatives and referenda and are out and about around the state with advocates trying to collect enough signatures so they can qualify for an upcoming election ballot. You might see people at
SF News Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums Continues Downward Spiral While we love to poke fun at Mayor Gavin Newsom now and then (which we're sure he finds nothing short of adorable, right?) we can all agree on one thing: at least he's
SF News Oakland Mayor Dellums & Wife Owe IRS $239K Oh oh. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums owes the IRS in back taxes. Lots and lots of back taxes. According to CBS 5, "Alameda County records show the IRS has placed a lien on
SF News New Obama Tax Plan to Crack Down on Tax Evasion President Obama announced a plan this morning to revise IRS policies and to crack down on individuals and corporations using loopholes and off-shore "headquarters" to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. He
SF News Special Election is Back On San Francisco supervisors proved their penis was bigger than Gavin Newsom's, at least for now, when they overrode the mayor's veto, setting the stage for special election to take place on June 2.
misc Why Should Taxpayers Bailout Houseflippers? As the story of Bob and Sally attest, they shouldn't. The cute and clever film above was produced by Angry Renter. Basically, they're a bunch of apartment-renters who are pissed that while they've
misc Tax Day Relief at Whole Foods But for all you anal retentive types who, like, know how to balance a checkbook and look at your receipts, Whole Foods can help alleviate some of your tax-day worry. Today they're paying
SF News Parking Meters to Rob Drivers of More Money Under the plan before the Municipal Transportation Agency, all tickets under $90 would go up $10 - including the ever-popular street-sweeping ticket, which snagged 664,361 people last year and would increase to
SF News Sydney Romp: Bevan Dufty Explains It All Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And
SF News Where Have All the Good Budget Times Gone? It's kinda like on the "the Wire" when the outgoing Mayor decided to get revenge on the guy who beat him in the Mayoral Race by not telling anyone that the educational system
SF News Prop D: Take a Look, It's In A Book! We're leery of blank-check bonds and the proposition's license to borrow in a kind of indefinite manner, but how many other things on the ballot have the support of the Mayor and the
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero: Smelly, Dirty, Dangerous, and We Liked it That Way Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put,
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
SF News R.I.P. Queen of Mean Although the billionaire hotelier once allegedly (the help is never a reliable source) uttered the words "only the little people pay taxes," Leona Helmsley today paid her biggest tax bill of all, breathing
SF News Republicans Also Want You To Cut Your Hair, Hippie Associated Press' Scott Lindlaw reports that at yesterday's federal building grand opening, as Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of playing the time-honored role of ribbon cutter, "anti-war protestors" audibly chanted such gems
