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Twitter Gets Tax Break, Will Stay in San Francisco

6 April 2011

In 140 characters (or less): Twitter is staying put in San Francisco. At least for now. A split Board approved a payroll tax exemption in San Francisco meant to keep Twitter and similar companies in the City by The Bay. The vote means that companies who agree to move to or remain in the less [...]

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San Franciscans Not Warming to Tax Break (Tweet, Tweet)

4 April 2011

Two months ago, the internet was, er, a-twitter about a tax deal that San Francisco appeared to be making in order to keep hot tech companies inside the city. The deal, which was focused on the social media darling, Twitter, would grant a payroll tax exemption in exchange for a move to a long-neglected area [...]

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Reporting Tax Cheats: The San Francisco Treat

2 February 2011

Would you report your neighbor for cheating on their taxes? What if you got paid for doing it? San Francisco has, for the last five years, offered up to 10% of the take for members of public who turn in their neighbors for failing to pay their fair share of taxes. It’s not the only [...]

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Last Minute Filers: The San Francisco Treat

15 April 2009

Maybe it’s the sunshine that makes folks in San Francisco put off filing until the last minute… Whatever it is, San Fran topped the list of cities with the most residents stalling until the very.last.second to do their taxes. Which cities rounded out the list? I’m proud to say that Philly didn’t make the top [...]

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Philly, Philly, Philly: Or Where to Host BlogHer 2009

7 August 2008

In 2007, BlogHer was in Chicago (great location, wonderful city). In 2008, BlogHer was in San Francisco: I made no secret about my disappointment with SF. I had waited, it felt like, eons to make it there and, well, it was no great shakes. Lovely weather, beautiful buildings but crazy expensive as all get out [...]

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BlogHer Notes

18 July 2008

A mere few hours after our session, Linsey already has her notes and handouts up – as does Sabrina… Egads, the pressure! So here are my handouts, all available to download as pdf: 1, 7 Things Every Blogger Needs to Know About Tax 2, 46 Deductions that Bloggers Overlook 3, Helpful articles and resources I’ll [...]

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On My Way to BlogHer!

17 July 2008

I’m officially on my way to BlogHer! The flight was remarkably full this morning as we pulled out of Philly. I guess that San Francisco is a pretty popular destination – and why not? The pilot announced that it was a chilly 51 degrees at take off – a far cry from the 93 degrees [...]

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The BlogHer Countdown

16 July 2008

Wow, in just about 12 hours (a little over), I’ll be crawling into a cab (before 5am, anyone would be crawling) to head out to San Francisco to speak at BlogHer. I am ridiculously excited for a zillion reasons, not the least of which is that I hear that the high in San Francisco is [...]

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Sooo…. What Do You Want to Talk About at BlogHer?

4 July 2008

It’s a mere two weeks until BlogHer! I’m excited! I had a great conference call with my co-speakers (Sabrina Parsons and Linsey Krolik) this week, that is, until I got up while speaking – yeah, I was that excited about tax – and managed to unplug the phone (if you’re wondering who uses corded phones [...]

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BlogHer? I Hardly Knew Her!

1 July 2008

Yeah, yeah, I know. It was a bad joke last year, too, but I was hoping that it would grow on you. I’m speaking again at BlogHer – this time, it’s in San Francisco (insert squeals here). My session is Friday morning, July 18 at 10:30am. The description is here: If you’re a blogger, and [...]

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