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The San Francisco Bay Guardian (SFBG), a local newspaper, has published an editorial that recommends the city government not give tax breaks to Twitter.<\/p>\nThe San Francisco Bay Guardian (SFBG), a local newspaper, has published an editorial that recommends the city government not give tax breaks to Twitter.<\/p>\n
The SFBG reports that Twitter \u201cis threatening to leave San Francisco and take 350 employees to a new headquarters in Brisbane.\u201d<\/p>\n
The move might be avoided if city officials come up with a favorable tax plan:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe latest plans call for a payroll tax exemption that would cap the company\u2019s future tax bills at $250,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SFBG calls it \u201ccorporate blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is all a bit much.<\/p>\n
When I went to see Ev Williams and Biz Stone at the Inforum Club in October, they spoke a lot about how social responsibility is very important to Twitter. It felt disingenuous, it felt as if it was \u201cbolted on\u201d for PR value.<\/p>\n
It seems my instincts weren\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n
How does Twitter square away its PR about it being a socially responsible company yet threaten to leave San Francisco unless it gets a tax break?<\/p>\n
Those taxes are part of its social responsibility to the local community.<\/p>\n
Clearly at Twitter, chatter about social responsibility is more important than actual social responsibility.<\/p>\n
San Francisco should call Twitter\u2019s bluff and let it move to Brisbane, to a site shared with Wal-Mart. It\u2019ll have a huge problem trying to recruit engineers to work in Brisbane. And that will cost it far more than its savings on taxes.<\/p>\n
Social responsibility can\u2019t be tweeted. Let\u2019s see it in action. Pay your local taxes Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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