The King County Council during its Tuesday meeting approved a tenth-of-a-cent sales tax aimed at generating enough funds to ...

The King County Council has approved a new tenth of a cent sales tax to fund public safety programs - even though a majority ...

King County Council passes new public safety tax, raising concerns over tax burden while aiming to improve criminal justice ...

The King County Council voted Tuesday to approve a 0.1% sales tax to fund housing for people who have been chronically homeless, even after some of the county's largest cities ...

The majority of King County residents will pay more in state sales tax next year in order to fund the purchase of hotels and former nursing homes that will be used to house the homeless, but not ...

Braddock’s plan imposes a new 0.1% sales tax to “save” King County from deep service cuts. That’s $95 million a year squeezed out of families already buckling under the weight of the ...

(The Center Square) – King County Executive Shannon Braddock is proposing a new revenue measure to offset the county’s $150 million budget gap. The new proposal would enact a 0.1% sales and ...

King County will have to find a way to make up $20 million in funding for its Mental Illness and Drug Dependency funding by the end of the year. Over the next three years, the county is projecting ...

Sales-tax collections, the county’s second-largest tax source, dropped by 3.7 percent in 2008, by 14 percent in 2009, and are projected to fall another 2.7 percent this year.

SEATTLE — The Metropolitan King County Council voted Tuesday to implement a 0.1% sales tax to fund housing for people who have been chronically homeless, even after some cities in the county ...

For cities within the Regional Transit Authority's boundaries, including Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island, Shoreline and most urban areas of the county, the new sales tax will be 8.9 percent.