Seattle’s Revenue Stabilization Workgroup

Seattle’s Revenue Stabilization Workgroup was created to recommend progressive taxes. The workgroup offered the following tax proposals to increase Seattle’s local tax revenue: increase the rate of the existing Jumpstart payroll tax, create a city level capital gains tax, tax companies with wide gaps between CEO pay and the median worker pay, vacancy tax, an additional tax on the sale of high-value properties, estate tax, inheritance tax, congestion tax on local roads, and a local income tax.

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