Airbnb pays tax bill of 'tens of millions’ to S.F.
The short-term housing rental service Airbnb gave in Wednesday to mounting pressure from San Francisco City Hall, disclosing it had paid “in full” a back-tax bill that officials said ran into the millions of dollars. Airbnb’s failure to pay the city’s 14 percent hotel tax even as it grew to a lodging powerhouse was threatening to turn into a major political issue, with the company’s critics and allies alike saying the firm ran the risk of becoming a focus of the November mayoral and supervisorial elections if it didn’t act. Читать дальше...