San Francisco Mayor London Breed joined city Treasurer José Cisneros and Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Aaron Peskin on Sept. 25 to introduce legislation that would eliminate existing annual small business license fees.
“San Francisco has been working hard to remove years of built-up red tape to make it easier to thrive as a small business in our city,” Breed said in a press release announcing the plan. “I have remained committed to changing the narrative that San Francisco is a city of ‘no’ to getting us to a place where we are a city of ‘yes.’”
The proposal is meant to facilitate the operation, growth, and opening of family-owned and other small businesses across the city, according to the mayor.
The mayor said that if the legislation is ultimately approved by the board of supervisors, about 91 percent of restaurants and 87 percent of bars and nightclubs will benefit. […]
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