Washington Prohibit Income and Capital Gains Income Taxes Initiative (2018)

Washington Prohibit Income and Capital Gains Income Taxes Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Taxes
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Washington Prohibit Income and Capital Gains Income Taxes 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 the state and local government from levying any income tax, including a capital gains income tax.

Tim Eyman proposed multiple versions of the initiative.

Ballot title

The following are the ballot titles for the initiatives:

Initiative Measure No. 896
Initiative Measure No. 896 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit the state and any local government from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and would terminate any income tax imposed in 2018. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 900
Initiative Measure No. 900 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit the state and any city, county, or city-county from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 909
Initiative Measure No. 909 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit the state and any local government from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and would terminate any income tax imposed in 2018. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 910
Initiative Measure No. 910 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit the state and any local government from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 914
Initiative Measure No. 914 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and provide for the repeal of a tax that might be adopted in 2017-18. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 916
Initiative Measure No. 916 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit local governments and the state from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and provide a definition for “income tax.” Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 921
Initiative Measure No. 921 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit any state or local income tax, defined as any tax on net income from wages, sale or exchange of goods, services, capital assets, or investments, or any other source. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 925
Initiative Measure No. 925 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit any state or local income tax, defined as any tax on net income from wages; sale or exchange of goods, services, capital assets, or investments; or any other source. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 930
Initiative Measure No. 930 concerns state and local income taxes. This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from such taxes. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 931
Initiative Measure No. 931 concerns state and local taxes on income. This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source, and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting this type of tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 934
Initiative Measure No. 934 concerns state and local taxes on income. This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source, and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting this type of tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 958
Initiative Measure No. 958 concerns state and local taxes on income. This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source, and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting this type of tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 959
Initiative Measure No. 959 concerns state and local taxes on income. This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source, and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting this type of tax. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 960
The ballot title for this version of the initiative has not yet been issued.

Initiative Measure No. 962
The ballot title for this version of the initiative has not yet been issued.

Ballot summary

The following are the ballot summaries for the initiatives:

Initiative Measure No. 896
This measure would prohibit the state and any city, county, or city-county from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and provide that any income tax imposed in 2018 expires on the effective date of this initiative.

Initiative Measure No. 900
This measure would prohibit the state and any city, county, or city-county from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax.

Initiative Measure No. 909
This measure would prohibit the state and any local government from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and provide that any income tax imposed in 2018 expires on the effective date of this initiative.

Initiative Measure No. 910
This measure would prohibit the state and any local government from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax.

Initiative Measure No. 914

This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, and define the term “income tax” to mean “any local tax imposed on net income derived from wages, the sale or exchange of goods or services or capital assets or investments, or any other source.” It would also purport to repeal a law described as proposed House Bill 2186 (2017-18) concerning capital gains income tax.

Initiative Measure No. 916
This measure would prohibit local governments and the state from imposing an income tax, including a capital gains income tax. The measure would define the term “income tax” to mean any state or local tax “imposed on net income derived from wages, the sale or exchange of goods or services or capital assets or investments, or any other source.”

Initiative Measure No. 921

This measure would prohibit the State and local governments from imposing an income tax. Income tax is defined for purposes of this measure as: any state or locally imposed tax on net income derived from wages, the sale or exchange of goods or services or capital assets or investments, or any other source. The measure would also prohibit the Department of Revenue from collecting any income tax, as defined.

Initiative Measure No. 925

This measure would prohibit the State and local governments from imposing an income tax. Income tax is defined for purposes of this measure as any state or locally imposed tax on net income derived from wages, the sale or exchange of goods or services or capital assets or investments, or any other source. The measure also would prohibit the Department of Revenue from collecting any income tax, as defined.

Initiative Measure No. 930
This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source and prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from any tax on income from wages or any other source.

Initiative Measure No. 931
This measure would prohibit state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would also prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from any tax on income from wages or any other source.

Initiative Measure No. 934
This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would also prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would define “income” as net income, adjusted gross income, capital gains income, or any other portion, or type of income.

Initiative Measure No. 958
This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would also prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would define “income” as net income, adjusted gross income, capital gains income, or any other portion, or type of income.

Initiative Measure No. 959

This measure would prohibit the state and local governments from imposing any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would also prohibit the department of revenue from collecting revenue from any tax on income from wages or any other source. It would define “income” as net income, adjusted gross income, capital gains income, or any other portion, or type of income. This prohibition would not apply to the business and occupation tax.

Initiative Measure No. 960
The ballot summary for this initiative has not yet been issued.

Initiative Measure No. 962
The ballot summary for this initiative has not yet been issued.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Washington

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. 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 and M.J. Fagan filed multiple versions of the initiative with the secretary of state's office in 2017. The first version of the initiative received a ballot title and summary on March 15, 2017.

Version 962 was withdrawn by its sponsors on December 14, 2017.

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.

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• Taxes on the ballot

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• Washington ballot measure laws

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