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SEATTLE (AP) — King County voters will decide in August whether to raise the county sales tax to pay for arts, culture and science programs. The Metropolitan King County Council, voting 7 to 2 Monday, approved placing the "Access for All" measure on the August primary ballot...

SEATTLE (AP) — A King County Councilmember has pulled legislation that would have put a sales-tax measure for the arts on the August ballot. King County Executive Dow Constantine last month proposed a 0.1 percent bump in the sales tax to raise $469 million over seven years for arts and science programs...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is scrapping a proposed property tax levy that would have raised $275 million over five years to pay for homeless services. Murray told the Seattle Times editorial board Monday that he is moving away from the property-tax idea in favor of a 2018 county ballot measure that would boost sales tax to fight homelessness...

With the sales tax proposal in the county suffering a defeat, county commissioners are ready to move forward with option number two: shifting money from the county's road fund to the general fund. It would raise the same amount of money: $3 million per year to pay for jail security upgrades and cover payments of a 2010 bond; However, many would still pay more under this plan...

Yakima County voters turned down a sales tax proposal but gave a thumbs up to funding for the Selah pool in Tuesdays primary election the sales tax proposal failed 53 to 47 percent , it would have would have funded security upgrades at the Yakima County jail...

Seattle (ap) - a measure that would extend state and local sales tax deductions for people in Washington has passed out of the senate finance committee as part of legislation that would renew tax breaks for businesses. The sales tax deduction for residents of Washington and other states without income taxes is being supported by Sen...