Gov. Bob Ferguson said earlier this month that he wouldn’t sign a budget that relied on a large, “untested” new wealth tax.

Democrats in the Washington State Senate resurrected a wealth tax on Friday, with the Ways & Means Committee giving a ...

Moving away from a politically unpopular tax on the state's richest people, lawmakers float a different way to balance the ...

Washington state Democrats have so thoroughly mismanaged the state’s budget that they are now planning to jack up taxes by $12 billion over the next few years.

To fend off WA taxes on businesses and personal wealth, Microsoft has spearheaded a lobbying campaign and pledged $1 million ...

Steve Bloom [email protected] House Speaker Laurie Jinkins told reporters Thursday that Washington lawmakers may pass a wealth tax after all. The Tacoma Democrat’s comment comes weeks after ...

Bob Ferguson put the kibosh on their wealth-tax plan ... program to be exempt from the state property tax, thereby slashing costs for some of Washington’s most vulnerable residents, according ...

Washington currently levies a 7% tax on capital gains above $270,000 in a year for individual taxpayers. Senate Bill 5814 also advanced out of executive session with a do-pass recommendation.