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Re:Seattle City Council votes 9-0 for scaled-down head tax o... by uji on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:24PM (#17076333)
Given that WA state doesn't have income tax. I am assuming it must be quite difficult to introduce city income tax. What exactly are the issues here?
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Re:Seattle City Council votes 9-0 for scaled-down head tax o... by Jesus_Jones on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:37PM (#17076455)
The state supreme court in the 1930s heard a court case on a then newly enacted income tax and said it was unconstitutional. So it's still presumed to be the same. Seattle has created a kind of test income tax separately that they are trying to use to overturn that court case.
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