Ballot fight on WA income tax looks certain

TUMWATER – Opponents of Washington’s new income tax on high earners turned in more than 500,000 signatures Thursday for an initiative to repeal the levy, nearly double the amount needed to secure a spot on the November ballot.

Let’s Go Washington, the political committee that’s become the state’s leading purveyor of conservative ballot measures, delivered the boxes of petitions for IP26-645 at the secretary of state’s office shortly before 4 p.m.

The initiative seeks to repeal the 9.9% tax on individual and household wage income above $1 million a year, while preserving tax breaks and the expansion of a tax credit program for lower-income families built into the law. It also prohibits local governments from imposing any income tax.

Brian Heywood, the hedge fund manager who leads Let’s Go Washington, told supporters that more than 511,408 signatures would be submitted. If at least 309,000 are valid registered voters, the measure will qualify for the November ballot.





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