{"id":4683,"date":"2020-07-09T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2021-01-18T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:15:27","slug":"seattle-city-council-approves-new-payroll-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/seattle-city-council-approves-new-payroll-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle City Council Approves New Payroll Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle businesses may soon be subject to a new tax on payroll.\u00a0 Earlier this week, the Seattle City Council passed Council Bill. No. 119810, known as Jump Start Seattle.\u00a0 The measure, which was approved by a veto-proof majority, now awaits action from Mayor Durkan. \u00a0If enacted, the ordinance would impose a sliding rate tax on businesses with $7 million or more in annual payroll and would take effect January 1, 2021.\u00a0 The tax applies only to positions earning more than $150,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Seattle-Payroll-Tax-Alert.pdf\">Read more<\/a>&gt; for an overview of the ordinance\u2019s key provisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle businesses may soon be subject to a new tax on payroll.\u00a0 Earlier this week, the Seattle City Council passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-library","category-municipal_law","category-non-profits"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NR_SeattleSkyline.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacificalawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}