Washington Ban Sales Tax on Groceries Initiative (2018)
| Washington Ban Sales Tax on Groceries Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Ban Sales Tax on Groceries Initiative was not put on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have prohibited state and local sales taxes on groceries, which would have been defined to include food, bottled water, carbonated beverages, and soft drinks.[1]
Tim Eyman proposed the initiative.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title is:[1]
| “ | Initiative Measure No. 954 concerns state, city, and county sales and use taxes.
This measure would prohibit state and local sales and use taxes on “groceries like food, bottled water, carbonated beverages, and soft drinks including its ingredients,” some of which are not currently taxed. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ][2] |
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Ballot summary
The ballot summary is:[1]
| “ | This measure would provide that the state sales and use taxes do not apply to “groceries,” defined as including but not limited to food, bottled water, carbonated beverages, and soft drinks including its ingredients, some of which are not now taxed. It would also provide that the state, and any city or county, cannot impose sales and use taxes on “groceries like food, bottled water, carbonated beverages, and soft drinks including its ingredients.”[2] | ” |
Path to the ballot
To make the 2018 ballot, proponents of Initiatives to the Legislature were required to submit at least 259,622 valid signatures by December 29, 2017.[3] If certified, initiatives are sent to the Washington House of Representatives and Washington State Senate for consideration. The legislature chooses whether to enact the measure, send it to the 2018 ballot alone, or send it to the ballot alongside an alternative proposition.
Tim Eyman, Leo J. Fagan, and M.J. Fagan filed the initiative with the secretary of state's office on June 30, 2017. The initiative received a ballot title and summary on July 13, 2017.[1]
Proponents of the initiative did not submit signatures to the secretary of state's office by the December 29, 2017, deadline and the measure was not put on the ballot.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Washington Secretary of State, "Proposed Initiatives to the Legislature - 2017," accessed July 19, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar - 2017," accessed May 1, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, "Telephone correspondence with the Washington secretary of state's office," January 2, 2018
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