Latest: The Fair Share Business Tax
On Friday, March 18, 2022, Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Councilmember Carroll Fife introduced legislation to advance a progressive, equitable business tax proposal to modernize Oakland’s 20-year-old, regressive business tax structure and raise $40 million to protect and expand essential city services to address homelessness, fix and clean our streets, and provide tax relief and COVID recovery support to more than 20,000 struggling small businesses, many owned by women and people of color.