{"id":581,"date":"2016-08-25T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/08\/25\/interim-sharing-economy-taxing-ride-share-apps-3-pieces-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:26:00","slug":"interim-sharing-economy-taxing-ride-share-apps-3-pieces-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/interim-sharing-economy-taxing-ride-share-apps-3-pieces-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM. Sharing Economy. Taxing Ride Share Apps. 3 Pieces Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusettes ride share legislation will tax ride share transactions via app.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know about taxing an app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 cents per trip tax, with a breakdown of:\n<ul>\n<li>5 cents to taxi industry<\/li>\n<li>10 cents to local governments<\/li>\n<li>5 cents to a designated state transportation fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The app tax revenue will be given to the taxi industry as a subsidy for the purposes of:\n<ul>\n<li>new technologies<\/li>\n<li>advanced service\u00a0safety<\/li>\n<li>operational capabilities<\/li>\n<li>support workforce development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its the first ride share app tax in the nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-massachusetts-uber-idUSKCN10U1ST?mod=djemCIO_h\">Reuters |\u00a0Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusettes ride share legislation will tax ride share transactions via app.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know about taxing an app:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 cents per trip tax, with a breakdown of:\n<ul>\n<li>5 cents to taxi industry<\/li>\n<li>10 cents to local governments<\/li>\n<li>5 cents to a designated state transportation fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The app tax revenue will be given to the taxi industry as a subsidy for the purposes of:\n<ul>\n<li>new technologies<\/li>\n<li>advanced service\u00a0safety<\/li>\n<li>operational capabilities<\/li>\n<li>support workforce development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its the first&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,30,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}