The Seattle City Council voted 9–0 to pass the employee hours tax in May 2018, but repealed it a month later in a 7–2 vote
The Seattle head tax, officially the employee hours tax (EHT), was a proposed head tax to be levied on large employers in Seattle, Washington, United States. The head tax was proposed in 2017 to fund homeless services and outreach and was set at a rate of $275 annually per employee, with hopes of raising up to $50 million annually.
The controversial head tax ordinance was passed by the Seattle City Council in May 2018 and was signed into law by Mayor Jenny Durkan, to be in effect for five years before consideration for renewal. The tax was criticized for targeting Amazon, the city's largest employer, and was opposed by the business community. A citizen referendum was planned by business groups and gathered enough signatures to qualify for an upcoming election, but the city council repealed the head tax less than a month later.
A poll tax, also known as headtax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference...
The Chinese headtax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada. The headtax was first levied after the Canadian parliament passed...
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income tax collected by the United States, most individual U.S. states collect a state income tax. Some local governments also impose an income tax, often...
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increasingly involved in city council politics after the passage of the Seattleheadtax in 2018, which would have cost the company $11 million annually in...
increased the tax to £100 per head in 1896, and tightened the other restriction to only one Chinese immigrant for every 200 tons of cargo. The poll tax was waived...
In economics, a negative income tax (NIT) is a system which reverses the direction in which tax is paid for incomes below a certain level; in other words...
Club of Seattle, headed by Starbucks chairman emeritus, former president and CEO Howard Schultz. On July 18, 2006, Basketball Club of Seattle sold SuperSonics...
arena in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located north of Downtown Seattle in the 74-acre (30 ha) entertainment complex known as Seattle Center...
Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Nora Ephron, from a screenplay she wrote with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch. Starring...
The Seattle metropolitan area is an urban conglomeration in the U.S. state of Washington that comprises Seattle, its surrounding satellites and suburbs...
2007, Bennett proposed using tax money to pay for a new $500 million arena in Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. After failing to reach a deal...
Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is managed by Sound Transit...
championship teams, including five division titles. On June 7, 2007, the Seattle SuperSonics named Presti as the newest general manager after former general...
relationship with Seattle City Hall much improved a year after headtax". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 28, 2019. "Hyatt Regency Hotel". Emporis....
label him 'ethically challenged'". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "Reichert appears headed for victory". The Seattle Times. November 11, 2006. Retrieved...
A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won...
administration's compromise tax package that included a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts. The package passed as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance...
of pro-Palestinian protests were held in the United States on April 15 (Tax Day), 2024. Described as a "coordinated day of economic protest against the...
transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It operates the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma, regional...
multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located in the city's SoDo neighborhood, it is the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the National...
Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) pair of public transit tunnels in Seattle, Washington...
However, they were reluctant to expand in 1969 without a Seattle stadium bond issue. The Seattle delegation assured the owners that Sick's Stadium could...
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