WATERVILLE – An Orondo orchardist is the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit against Washington’s capital gains tax.
April Clayton, 47, is a co-owner of Red Apple Orchards and president of the Chelan-Douglas Farm Bureau. Together with eight other people and the Washington Farm Bureau, she filed the second such action in the Douglas County Superior Court on Thursday to prevent the new tax from taking effect.
Former Attorney General Rob McKenna is the plaintiffs’ attorney. The lawsuit argues that the new tax on stock and bond sales valued at over $ 250,000 is not what lawmakers call an excise tax, but an income tax that the state Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional 85 years ago. The Freedom Foundation filed a similar lawsuit in Douglas County back in April.
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