Inside Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
22.03.2019
by Paris Martineau, Wired
“Read my lips: We want to pay taxes,” Chris Lehane, Airbnb’s global head of public policy, told the nation's mayors in 2016. In the years since, the home-sharing site has repeated the declaration in press releases, op-eds, emails, and on billboards. On its website, Airbnb says it is “democratizing revenue by generating tens of millions of new tax dollars for governments all over the world.”
Inside Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
