Do you happen to know the reason for favoring a gross receipts tax over the previous payroll tax? Just curious as someone who previously lived in an area with a Griggs receipt tax, it seems it was universally despised.
Later, Square, founded by the same person as Twitter got pretty badly screwed by this very same tax [1], and it got worse when Prop C passed.
[0]: https://www.spur.org/news/2012-09-28/time-now-business-tax-r...
[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Square-is-suing...