Sunday, April 17, 2016

Business license are not out of bounds

SF Gate: For the first time, San Francisco is going to require the 37,000 Lyft and Uber drivers who work in the city seven or more days a year to obtain a business license.
City Treasurer Jose Cisneros wouldn’t fully explain why he is now requiring the license, which will cost drivers $91 annually, when the companies started operations years ago. But one reason, he said, is that the city launched its online business registration system in March — before, registrants had to go to City Hall to apply in person.
Having to get a business license is generally a service to the local tax agent. A pain, maybe they should be abolished.
But,but... Uber drivers are not any special case, they are either business owners or employees.

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