"The bill proposes increasing the state business and occupation tax by 20 percent on about 40 categories of technical services, such as telecom, engineering, medical and finance. And by 33 percent on tech firms with more than $25 billion in annual revenue.
But here’s where this goes off the charts, into politically unheard-of territory. It mandates a top rate, a whopping 67 percent business tax increase, for those “advanced computing businesses” with “worldwide gross revenue of more than one hundred billion dollars” per year."
Not sure if you read more than the headline but I don't think this bill targets small/mid-size businesses.
If it's going from 3% to 5% that's not as bad as 10 to 17 or whatever.
At the end, an east side Bellevue woman snobbishly complains about 425 containing Renton.
> And if you cannot afford a lawyer...well, uh, what are you doing living in Redmond? Maybe you meant Renton? They do sound similar, Redmond, Renton...
Also, Pat Cashman is a treasure. "Did you have to dial a one...before?"
They might have a marketing area, but I haven't seen it in the downtown area.