Comments on: Don’t Lose Your Head Tax

By: You Want a Resolution? How About a Payroll Tax for Transit - Seattle Transit Blog

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:25:40 +0000

[...] worth telling, again, the sad story of Seattle’s “Head Tax.” The tax was an employee-based tax that charged business with revenue above $80,000 a tax of $25 [...]

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By: What Just Happened?: The meaning of McGinn’s win | hugeasscity

What Just Happened?: The meaning of McGinn’s win | hugeasscity — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:50:15 +0000

[...] for the city. They opposed the Monorail and Sound Transit but supported the repeal of so called “head tax,” a small tax supporting bike and pedestrian infrastructure, while simultaneously urging that [...]

By: JT

JT — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:00:58 +0000

Huh? We should actually raise a tax on jobs, thus disincentivizing people from locating jobs in Seattle . . . to (in part) deal with unemployment “at a time our state’s unemployment rate has increased to 9.2%”?

I think the tax is an unnecessary annoyance to businesses. What business really wants to spend time figuring out and documenting and archiving their workers chosen commute for tax purposes? What business wants the annoyance of another tax they have to worry about getting done correctly?

By: Seattle Head Tax Repealed - Seattle Transit Blog

Seattle Head Tax Repealed - Seattle Transit Blog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:03:00 +0000

[...] Council President Richard Conlin insists bike and ped projects won’t be harmed, there’s discontent among advocates for those projects, and understandably so. That said, there may be less here than [...]

By: Walkable Greenwood

Walkable Greenwood — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:17:00 +0000

I’d like to note that it took over 6 years to get the backyard cottage legislation. As a taxpayer I simply don’t want electeds spending that much time on things like this. They weren’t breaking any new territory. We already had a successful pilot. Very much micromanagement. I don’t think we have money for that. We have a lot of land use decisions to make. We need people who can look at data, get some analysis done, and make decisions at something other than at a glacial pace. Because we have a fear of planning, no large visioning, a comprehensive plan that isn’t and no term limits at city council, we get milquetoast.

By: better-future-now

better-future-now — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:09:42 +0000

OMFG, indeed.

Still can’t believe that this happened on a council that supposedly values responsible forms of transportation.

So, how do we create a future where a tax that costs less than $100 a year for a business (and excludes folks that live sustainably) is not axed by a council that values “symbolism” (businesses are king) over budget reality? A budget reality where we’re 72M in the red?

Well. I guess that’s in the third-to-last paragraph…