Uber, Lyft Tax Headed for San Francisco Ballot in November

Users of ride-share services including Lyft and Uber would have to pay up to a 3.25% tax under a November ballot measure in San Francisco.

Supervisors unanimously approved July 23 placing the proposed traffic congestion mitigation tax on the fall ballot. The measure is a compromise reached with Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. in a handshake agreement last July that halted a planned fall 2018 ballot measure targeting a tax on transportation network companies.

“And now it’s time to turn it over to the voters, and hopefully two-thirds of the electorate will see fit to do what Portland, Massachusetts, ...