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WA will hire 300 employees as it enacts high-earners income tax
The agency says 131 employees will handle the tax itself and 106 will support the expanded Working Families Tax Credit.
- Washington's Revenue Department plans to hire more than 300 new employees by 2030 to administer the state's first-ever millionaire income tax, with hiring beginning July 1 to prepare for the 2029 implementation.
- Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the legislation imposing a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1 million, directing revenue to state services while expanding the Working Families Tax Credit to an additional 460,000 households.
- Total implementation expenses for the 2029-31 biennium will exceed $557 million, with about $45 million covering wages for new positions and the remainder supporting expanded tax credits and administrative infrastructure.
- On Thursday, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, Citizen Action Defense Fund, and Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge filed a lawsuit in Klickitat County Superior Court, arguing the tax violates Amendment 14 to the Constitution.
- In a separate legal challenge, Washington Founder Brian Heywood contends Secretary of State Steve Hobbs improperly used a "necessity clause" to block a voter referendum, with a Supreme Court hearing expected by April 30.
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