#31 Washington
#36 in Taxation and Regulation
#11 in Workforce Quality
#13 in Living Environment
Right to Work? ✗
#36 in Taxation and Regulation
#11 in Workforce Quality
#13 in Living Environment
Right to Work? ✗
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Wyoming |
Aerospace & Defense, Biotech, Clean Tech, Forestry, I.T., Maritime
Amazon
Capital One
Costco
General Dynamics
Lockheed Martin
Microsoft
Starbucks
Weyerhauser
Job cuts announced last year by Boeing and Microsoft will likely be offset by hiring at Amazon, helping prod the state’s efforts to at least keep pace with national job recovery.
Washington spends over $2.4 billion per year on incentives.
Washington imposes gross receipts taxes instead of corporate income taxes. Gross receipts taxes are thought to be more economically harmful than corporate income taxes, according to the Tax Foundation.
Dept. of Commerce
Brian Bonlender, Director
360-725-4000
1011 Plum Street SE
P.O. Box 42525
Olympia, WA 98504-2525
[email protected]
http://www.commerce.wa.gov/about/Pages/default.aspx
“Washington and Ohio prove strong incentives for entrepreneurship. The availability of well-trained workers with team oriented values is good in both states.”
“Washington, Nevada and Montana claim to be business friendly, but they have high taxes, T & E costs, and laws favoring organized labor.”
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