Category Archives: Seattle taxes

Leaving Seattle, amid pondering

Posted on by July 4, 2016
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Where will all the dramatic change lead?

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Will upzoning Seattle resemble no-zoning Houston?

Posted on by July 17, 2015
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Proposal to allow multi-unit housing on all single-family lots might do the trick

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Amid buzz over minimum wage rise, higher Seattle sales tax is ignored

Posted on by May 29, 2015
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Levy, nation’s highest among big cities, rose from 9.5% to 9.6%

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Seattle’s home state still has country’s most regressive tax system

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Poor pay seven times more of their income in state and local taxes than the rich.

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Will Seattle voters raise the nation’s highest big-city sales tax?

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Officials ask for increase to 9.6%

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Seattle quietly becomes clear No. 1 in big-city sales tax

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Pending vote could hike up the rate even more.

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Another big sales tax refund in Seattle, for all of $4.75

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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State coughs up the money after Fry’s Electronics and Iolo Technologies tell me to pound sand.

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Club soda officially declared tax-free in Seattle–7 days late

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Washington Department of Revenue finally responds to my formal query.

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My 68-cent sales tax refund in Seattle

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Albertsons gets back to me, more than can be said for the state Department of Revenue.

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Sales tax confusion in Seattle

Posted on by May 30, 2015
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Why is club soda hit with the state sales tax but not seltzer water?

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