OLYMPIA, Wash. – Representative Jeremie Dufault (R-Yakima) is challenging recent tax hikes as lawmakers prepare to return to Olympia in January.
Dufault has introduced two bills to reverse parts of the 2025 tax package.
“I am concerned about the increase in taxes in Washington state. It’s in all different areas — property taxes, sales taxes, business taxes,” Dufault said in a release by Washington House Republicans.
If passed, one of his bills, HB 2101, would exempt live presentations from the retail sales and use tax. This includes lectures, seminars, workshops and courses where participants can interact in real time, both in person and via telecommunications.
This change is expected to benefit educators and participants across the state.
His second bill, HB 2093, would reinstate tax exemptions for the sale of precious metals and bullion.
The legislation clarifies that taxes will be imposed on commissions received from transactions for customer accounts, but no deductions will be allowed for salaries or commissions paid to salespeople.
Precious metal bullion is defined in the bill as metals such as gold, silver, platinum, rhodium, and palladium that have been refined and hold value based on their content rather than their form.
