WATCH: DOR moves forward with hiring blitz as lawsuits target WA income tax

(The Center Square) – As Washington state prepares to collect its first-ever income tax on millionaires, one state agency is gearing up for a major hiring blitz to handle the administrative workload of ensuring millionaires pay what they will owe.

The tax doesn’t officially start until 2029, but the Department of Revenue is planning now to hire more than 300 new government employees over the next few years, with the first of those new employees to be hired this summer. The legal challenges against the tax are ramping up.

“I think the amount of money and the number of people they’re hiring exposes exactly what we’ve been saying in that this is not designed to be a small, limited tax on a small number of people,” said Let’s Go Washington Founder Brian Heywood in a Friday morning interview with The Center Square. “This is putting in place the infrastructure for a broad income tax.”

The tax is expected to collect between $3 billion and $4 billion from more than 20,000 wealthy h...