A business tax structure that would tax big businesses more and smaller businesses less, introduced by two Oakland city councilmembers last week, may appear before voters as a ballot measure in the fall.

The current tax structure in Oakland is flat, which means all businesses pay the same rate, but this results in small businesses paying a greater share of all taxes paid, according to Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas and Carroll Fife.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.