Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
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Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
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#3If the state wins, I wouldn't be surprised if Lyft and Uber pulled out, or at least increased their fares by a substantial amount.
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#4Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. It's good to see that the both the public and its elected officials are coming up to speed on the realities companies like Uber and AirBnb force upon them by skirting the law.
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#5Looking forward to seeing a repeat here in NL.
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#6If the state wins, I wouldn't be surprised if Lyft and Uber pulled out, or at least increased their fares by a substantial amount.
They'd lose out on a huge market where there are already competitor apps to both Lyft and Uber.
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#7Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. It's good to see that the both the public and its elected officials are coming up to speed on the realities companies like Uber and AirBnb force upon them by skirting the law.
> Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against.
Lobbied against and still lost by an enormous margin (70 percent of voters supported the new regulation).
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-ci...
Re: Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
#8If the state wins, I wouldn't be surprised if Lyft and Uber pulled out, or at least increased their fares by a substantial amount.
Closing the loophole in the law that lets them treat workers as "contractors" rather than employees is going to torpedo their whole business model.
Re: Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
#9If the state wins, I wouldn't be surprised if Lyft and Uber pulled out, or at least increased their fares by a substantial amount.
... is that bad?
Re: Uber Hit with $650M Employment Tax Bill in New Jersey
#10Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. It's good to see that the both the public and its elected officials are coming up to speed on the realities companies like Uber and AirBnb force upon them by skirting the law.
> Jersey City just had a public referendum on short-term rentals that AirBnB spent millions of dollars lobbying against. Lobbied against and still lost by an enormous margin (70 percent of voters supported the new regulation). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-ci... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459486
Yep, nearly 70% of voters voted against allowing short-term rentals. AirBnb spent over $4 million on that local election alone[1].
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/airbnb-suffers-setback-in-je...