Airbnb finally agrees to pay its taxes in SF  Airbnb finally
comes clean with the city where it was founded and is still
headquartered.   Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced last week
that it would start doing so in New York City, Portland, Ore.
and other cities that take part in its vaguely defined Shared
City program. That prompted us to send Chesky and other Airbnb
executives an email on March 27 asking, “I'm wondering why
you're willing to collect and remit taxes in Portland, but
you've been unwilling to do so in San Francisco, the city where
you're headquartered and where the city ruled more than two
years ago that you should be doing so?”  They never responded to
that inquiry, which is part of the company tactic of
stonewalling the Guardian on an issue that we were the first to
report over a year ago when we discovered the company was simply
refusing to pay a tax bill that our reporting found amounted to
nearly $2 million annually in late 2012, and probably
significantly more now.  The San Francisco Tax C