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June 14, 2018 05:38 pm GMT
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Seattle reverses controversial tax Amazon opposed, just a month after approving it
In an embarrassing and mystifying about-face, the Seattle City Council has repealed a tax it passed unanimously just a month ago that would require large companies to pay a fixed amount per employee; the money would have been used to combat homelessness. Amazon was the most high-profile opponent of the tax, but not the only one by far, and apparently the Council decided that fighting the business community was "not a winnable battle."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/xPuDWSPGYa8/
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