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Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Tulalips' bid for share of sales tax dies in Senate
OLYMPIA -- For the third year running, a proposal seeking to designate Quil Ceda Village, the Tulalip Tribes' booming business park near Marysville, as a Washington city and allow it to collect a portion of the park's sales-tax revenue has died in a Senate committee.
The measure, House Bill 1721, did not pass out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee by a Monday deadline.
Although as a fiscal bill it still could be considered as part of the state budget, that's not going to happen, the committee's chairwoman said yesterday.
"It's not going to move," Sen. Margarita Prentice, D-Renton, said. "I could see it didn't have the votes it needed."
After winning their largest approval ever in the House this session, officials for the tribe and other supporters had hoped the proposal, which would have set a precedent for designating federally recognized tribal "political subdivisions" as state municipalities, finally would be passed into law this year.
According to state revenue estimates, the measure would have allowed the tribe to garner more than $2 million over the next three fiscal years by collecting 0.85 percent of a local option sales tax on goods sold by Quil Ceda's non-tribal businesses.
Snohomish County and others opposed the bill, saying it would cut into county revenue and set bad, and potentially illegal, taxation precedent.
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