SEATTLE — A new state bill, modeled after a payroll tax in Seattle, is set to be introduced in Olympia and aims to collect more than $2 billion a year from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft.
State Rep. Shaun Scott (D), Seattle, will formally unveil the proposal on the Capitol steps on Tuesday.
In an interview, he says he’s floating the proposal to offset the federal funding cuts from the Trump Administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill”…