{"id":1485,"date":"2019-11-14T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:50:27","slug":"voters-approve-ride-share-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/voters-approve-ride-share-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Approve Ride Share Tax."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> San Francisco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>3.25 % surcharge on individual rideshare rides<\/li><li>1.5% tax on shared rides or for zero-emissions vehicles<\/li><li> Begins January 2020 &amp;  sunsets in 2045<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Passage rate: <\/strong>67% of voters approved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Revenue potential: <\/strong>$35 million split between the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Fund &amp; the San Francisco County Transportation Authority<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> The surcharge is a negotiated position between the City and Ride Share. The ride share companies favored the surcharge over an increase in their tax rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/uber-lyft-tax-congestion\/\">SF Weekly | Tax on Uber, Lyft Rides Squeaks By \u2014 For Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: San Francisco What: 3.25 % surcharge on individual rideshare rides 1.5% tax on shared rides or for zero-emissions vehicles Begins January 2020 &amp; sunsets in 2045 Passage rate: 67% of voters approved Revenue potential: $35 million split between the Traffic Congestion Mitigation Fund &amp; the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Background: The surcharge is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}