The Washington state legislature will soon consider a proposal that would increase taxes for airplane owners. Introduced on April 14, House Bill 2089 would impose an annual excise tax of 1% on the taxable value of aircraft registered in the state, according to officials with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), who say they are again working with a broad grassroots coalition, including the Pacific Northwest Business Aviation Association and others in the general aviation community that last year worked together to defeat a similar tax proposal in Washington state. Find out more here.
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Why just airplanes? Seems like discrimination that could easily be challenged in court. To be fair Washington should slap a 1% excise tax on everything that gets registered in the state, boats, cars, RVs, etc. C’mon Washington pols, you’re not thinking big enough here, gore everybody’s OX, not just aviation. I guess you figure that the aviation population isn’t big enough to raise much of a ruckus that would be noticed by the media, and their all rich folks anyway and most of the airplanes they fly are high ticket twins, turboprops and jets, they can afford it. Besides, if GA goes in the crapper, you can just develop the airports into strip malls and increase the tax base. It’s a win-win for the politicians and developers.