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State officials proceeding with capital gains income tax plans despite court ruling it unconstitutional

When a court rules that a tax is “is declared unconstitutional and invalid and, therefore, is void and inoperable as a matter of law,” what happens next? One would think that means efforts by state officials to put the tax in place would be stopped. To see if this is the case for the now court declared unconstitutional capital gains income tax, I asked Washington’s Department of Revenue (DOR) what...