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AG asks state Supreme Court to allow collection of capital gains income tax before final ruling

For months I’ve been asking the Department of Revenue (DOR) if it plans to collect the capital gains income tax that was ruled unconstitutional by an Inslee-appointed judge on March 1. The answer has consistently been: “That decision has not been made yet.”

Yesterday, however, the Attorney General (AG) helped definitively answer that question by filing a motion with the state Supreme Court asking...