highest earners

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's wealthiest would be the only Washington state residents to pay an income tax under legislation approved by the City Council. The City Council on Monday unanimously voted to impose a 2.25 percent tax on the city's highest earners...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Voters in Olympia have rejected an income tax on the city's highest earners. Initiative 1 sought a 1.5 percent tax on household income in excess of $200,000 for residents of Olympia, a city of about 50,000 people. The measure sought to raise an estimated $3 million a year for a public college tuition fund that would give all Olympia public high school graduates and GED recipi