Seattle is thinking about taxing big business in a bigger way. The city this week released findings from a report detailing ideas for progressive taxes to help plug a budget… Read More
Editor’s note: We asked two Seattle venture capitalists — Civic Ventures’ Nick Hanauer and Madrona’s Matt McIlwain — to defend their opposing viewpoints on the new capital gains tax in Washington… Read More
Editor’s note: We asked two Seattle venture capitalists — Civic Ventures’ Nick Hanauer and Madrona’s Matt McIlwain — to defend their opposing viewpoints on the new capital gains tax in Washington… Read More
The Washington state Supreme Court ruled that a statewide tax on capital gains is lawful, allowing the legislation to move forward nearly two years after it was approved by lawmakers.… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares for a sum of more than $285… Read More
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos today endorsed the Biden administration’s call for a higher corporate tax rate to help pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. In a statement posted on his… Read More
The debate over how much Amazon pays in federal income tax is heating up yet again. President Joe Biden called out the Seattle tech giant twice during a speech Wednesday… Read More
Seattle’s new plan to tax top salaries at the city’s highest-paying businesses is raising questions from the region’s tech community. How will the novel approach work in practice? Who gets… Read More
The Seattle City Council introduced a new proposal Tuesday to tax the largest companies in the city, the latest in a series of attempts to capture some of the wealth… Read More
Seattle City Councilmembers unveiled draft legislation Wednesday that details their plan to tax the city’s highest paying businesses to fund affordable housing. Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales are co-sponsoring the… Read More
The Seattle-area business community is throwing its weight behind a proposal to tax high-paying companies in the region to fund housing and services for the homeless. Amazon, Alaska Airlines, Expedia,… Read More
Washington state lawmakers are considering a new regional tax that would raise an estimated $121 million a year from some of the Seattle area’s biggest employers, including tech giants Microsoft… Read More
The debate over how to deal with gig economy workers has pitted two groups of Uber and Lyft drivers against each other in Seattle. In the latest development, an Uber-backed… Read More
This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: Tech companies and workers are changing changes in cities around the… Read More
The fight over taxing big businesses in Seattle took a dramatic turn this week. The Seattle City Council voted to repeal the Head Tax, sometimes called the ‘Amazon Tax,’ less… Read More
Update: The council voted 7-2 to repeal the head tax. Read GeekWire’s full story here. Another heated debate is taking place at Seattle City Hall over the city’s response to the… Read More
Amazon is pausing construction on a new office tower at its Seattle headquarters and may put one of its biggest future office spaces back on the market in response to… Read More
Government incentives and tax credits face new scrutiny, driven in-part by Amazon’s wishlist as it searches for a city to plant its second headquarters. The company has a preference for… Read More
The tech industry is breathing a sigh of relief this morning because the U.S. Senate has ditched its plan to tax stock options and restricted stock units when they vest… Read More
The Seattle City Council approved a new tax on short-term rentals Monday, taking the first step toward regulating hosts who rent out their properties using sites like Airbnb and VRBO.… Read More
Nick Hanauer is not impressed with President Donald Trump’s new tax reform plan. The Seattle investor and co-founder of Second Avenue Partners has more than a few choice words about… Read More
EVERETT, Wash. – House Speaker Paul Ryan came to a town hall with workers at Boeing’s biggest airplane factory today to talk about taxes, but he also had to address another… Read More
Two measures that would have lent a hand to Washington state’s fledgling space industry have been stalled in committee and aren’t likely to win approval during the state Legislature’s current session, the bills’… Read More
The initial headlines were enough to take one’s breath away: “Internal Revenue Service reports computer troubles,” or “IRS computers crash.” It’s this kind of headline that sets one to fantasizing. We… Read More
For many employees in America, Thanksgiving weekend was a time for relaxation, a chance to take a brief break from work. This year, though, that wasn’t so much the case for engineers… Read More
Tax automation software probably isn’t something the average consumer thinks about while making online purchases, but it caused some frustration for some e-commerce site operators this past Black Friday weekend.… Read More
The Internal Revenue Service is petitioning a federal court to compel a who’s who of former Microsoft executives — including longtime CEO Steve Ballmer and former Windows chief Jim Allchin — to… Read More
If paying fewer taxes is a huge concern for your business, Wyoming might be the place to be. That’s according to the Tax Foundation’s tenth annual State Business Tax Climate Index,… Read More
Expedia and other big online travel agencies may be looking at higher tax expenses thanks to a recent push by state legislators. Bloomberg reports that The National Conference of State… Read More
More than a month into Washington state’s new laws on liquor sales, and consumers are still feeling the afterburn of sticker shock from taxes not necessarily shown on the shelf.… Read More
