{"id":274716,"date":"2025-11-06T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274716\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:50:12","slug":"washington-ranks-among-least-tax-competitive-states-in-the-nation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/274716\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington ranks among least tax-competitive states in the nation | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state has been identified as one of the 10 least tax-competitive states in the United States according to the Tax Foundation &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/research\/all\/state\/2026-state-tax-competitiveness-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 State Business Tax Competitive Index<\/a>.&#8221; The state ranks 45th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Washington came in 47th for corporate taxes and 49th for both sales and unemployment insurance taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Experts noted that Washington&#8217;s new capital gains tax contributed to this low ranking, dropping the state from 33rd place in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The report also cautioned that new digital sales taxes could lower Washington&#8217;s ranking further in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington state has been identified as one of the 10 least tax-competitive states in the United States according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,101,49567,983,3,61888,61889,61891,61890,21,19,22,20,25,24,800],"class_list":["post-274716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-economy","tag-khq","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-county","tag-spokane-news","tag-spokane-valley","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}