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Washington Prohibit State and Local Capital Gains Taxes Initiative (2017)
| Washington Prohibit State and Local Capital Gains Taxes Initiative | |
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| Election date November 7, 2017 | |
| Topic Taxes | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Prohibit State and Local Capital Gains Taxes Initiative was not on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, a type of initiated state statute, on November 7, 2017.
The measure would have prohibited state and local governments from levying a capital gains tax or an income tax.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title was:[1]
| “ | Initiative Measure No. 1543 concerns income taxes.
This measure would state that an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, is prohibited. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ][2] |
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Ballot summary
The ballot summary was:[1]
| “ | This measure would state that an income tax, including a capital gains income tax, is prohibited.[2] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure is as follows. The underlined text would have been added and the struck-through text would have been deleted:[3]
Sec. 1. The people strongly oppose the constant effort by politicians to create and impose new taxes on already struggling taxpayers. This measure would prohibit an income tax, including a capital gains income tax. Sec. 2. RCW 36.65.030 and 1984 c 91 s 3 are each reenacted andamended to read as follows:
Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 43.135 RCW to read as follows: An income tax, including a capital gains income tax, is prohibited. Sec. 4. The provisions of this act are to be liberally construed to effectuate the policies, purposes, and intent of this act. Sec. 5. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected. Sec. 6. This act is known and may be cited as the “We Don’t Want An Income Tax.” |
Support
Tim Eyman, Leo J. Fagan, and M.J. Fagan sponsored the initiative.[1]
Path to the ballot
In Washington, the signature requirement for Initiatives to the People is equivalent to 8 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election.
To make the 2017 ballot, proponents of Initiatives to the People were required to submit at least 259,622 valid signatures by July 7, 2017.[4] No signatures were turned in for the initiative by the deadline.[5]
Sponsors of the measure originally proposed it as an Initiative to the Legislature, but failed to submit a sufficient number of valid signatures by the deadline on December 30, 2016.[6]
See also
- 2017 ballot measures
- Washington 2017 ballot measures
- Laws governing the initiative process in Washington
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Washington Secretary of State, "Initiative Measure No. 1543," January 9, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedproposd - ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Elections Calendar - 2016," accessed January 10, 2017
- ↑ Northwest Public Radio, “Election Rarity: No Initiatives Qualify For November Statewide Ballot In Washington,” July 7, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "E-mail with Washington secretary of state's office," January 3, 2016
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