From this,:
The employee hour tax shall be reported and paid on an annual calendar year basis, at the same time as the fourth quarter or annual tax return is due. The tax applies to employee hours worked inside the City regardless of whether the place of business is located within or outside the City. Persons discontinuing their business activities in Seattle shall report and pay the tax at the same time as their final business tax return is due.
So if you do business in the city of Seattle, you have to pay this tax. Does the city want to drive out all business? How stupid can the city leaders be? Do they have no shame? Is nothing sacred that it can’t be taxed?
Why the sudden concern over taxes in Seattle?
Planning on opening a business and hiring employees?
You should worry more about the Multnomah County Tax and the City of Portland Surcharge.
http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=41285
The problem is that Portland tends to trend with Seattle in many ways. If word of this gets out, Sam Adams, Tom Potter and the rest of the nutters will jump all over this like a fat kid on a smartie.
Well, that and the fact that I’m opposed to taxes on general principles regardless of where they may be levied.
Mmmmmmmm, Smarties.
This came up in a search for something unrelated and I am amazed. From CT, I was working in Seattle for about a day and a half. Although my employer is based outside the city, do I have to file a tax return for the hours worked in Seattle. Also, do I then also need to file a state return for WA? By the way, I travel for work, and if this is the case I will have to prorate my salary based on the number of hours worked. Do travel hours count? Do I have to count the number of hours spent at the airport? After all I am officially on the clock from the time I leave home until the time I return. Now keep in mind my husband worked in NYC, was transferred to NJ and we live in CT, so I already fill in 3 state returns. At $200 each (approximately) this new (and fairly ridiculously worded) tax law will be expensive and cumbersome!!
No one said it had to be logical.