It's official: WA voters will get to weigh in on new income tax

Washington voters will get their chance in November to embrace or reject the state’s new income tax on households with earnings greater than a million dollars a year.

The secretary of state’s office certified Initiative 645 on Wednesday, two weeks after sponsors turned in more than 500,000 signatures on petitions to put the measure on the ballot.

“We’re grateful for the dedication of the Secretary of State’s office to ensure that the hundreds of thousands of signatures gathered are validly counted,” said Brian Heywood, founder of Let’s Go Washington, the political committee that ran the signature-gathering effort.

He poked at Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson and state Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, sponsor of the income tax law, for not putting the controversial measure directly on the ballot themselves. Ferguson signed the law in March. Collections of the tax are set to begin in 2029.



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