In late 2025, Washington reclassified a long list of services as taxable retail sales. Less than a year later, the Legislature began narrowing that expansion. If you restructured contracts or pricing to deal with the 2025 change, some of those assumptions have already shifted. What 2025 did Under ESSB 5814 (Chapter 422, Laws of 2025),… Read More
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Your Crew Worked Two Hours in Seattle. Do You Owe $21.30 an Hour?
A landscaping crew based in Shoreline drives into Seattle for a half-day job. A Bothell electrician spends a morning on a Seattle site. In both cases, the employer may owe Seattle’s minimum wage—not Washington’s—for the hours worked inside the city. For 2026 that is a meaningful gap: Seattle’s minimum wage is $21.30 per hour, against… Read More
A Stock Sale Taxed Like an Asset Sale: Section 338 and 336(e) Elections
In most business sales, buyer and seller start on opposite sides of a single question: asset deal or stock deal? Buyers usually want to buy assets—they get a stepped-up tax basis and can leave unwanted liabilities behind. Sellers usually prefer to sell stock—one level of tax, and mostly capital gain. But sometimes a stock sale… Read More