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DOR is a key state agency that administers roughly 60 categories of taxes and does other work on fiscal policies, such as tax analysis and helping to author proposed laws.
On May 4, 2021, Inslee signed into law Senate Bill 5096, a new tax on some capital gains. This represented a landmark moment for Democratic lawmakers pushing to change the state’s regressive tax system. Conservatives have strongly opposed the tax and filed a legal challenge. But the Washington Supreme Court this spring upheld the tax as constitutional.
Right around the time Inslee signed the bill, Pam Lewison, the agricultural research director for the Washington Policy Center, made a
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