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Oregon also has a state income tax, unlike Washington.

Washington currently has 0.4% income tax for W2 employees, and another 0.6% coming on Jan 1, 2022 unless you have sufficient long term disability insurance by Jul 2021 to be able to opt out of it. So WA will effectively have a 1% income tax beginning Jan 1, 2022 for W2 earners (aka employees).

Searched for and couldn't find the 0.4% tax, which tax are you referring to? And for others, the incoming 2022 tax is a 0.58% payroll tax.

From WA directly: "Washington state does not have a personal or corporate income tax." [1]

1 - https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/income-tax

https://paidleave.wa.gov/estimate-your-paid-leave-payments/

Washington can claim it does not have an income tax (for the purposes of subverting the state’s constitution forbidding it), but I do not see how money deducted from your income by government mandate is not a tax.

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