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Employee tax aimed at Amazon, other retailers among amendments progressive Chicago aldermen to introduce to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposed budget

NOVEMBER 16, 2020 | by John Byrne | THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

By John Byrne, includes “The proposed $16-per-employee-per-month tax would apply only to logistics operations with more than 50 employees. That would hit Target, Walmart and the recently opened Amazon delivery warehouse in the Far South Side’s Pullman neighborhood, according to Kennedy Bartley, legislative director for the United Working Families community coalition that helped design the ordinances.”

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