Washington Legislation Would Allow Marijuana Sales at Liquor Stores

Indirect Tax, Sales and Use Tax Posted by Rebekah Lu 0 Comment

Posted on February 3, 2011

Washington Representative Mary Lou Dickerson has introduced HB 1550 which would allow for the sale (and taxation) of marijuana in state run liquor stores and also calls for the state to license growers. State Senator Margarita Prentice (D) says she will present a companion bill in the Senate. The bill provides in part:

“In addition to any required local sales tax, there is hereby a state tax imposed on the sale of cannabis. The state tax shall be set at a rate of fifteen percent per gram of cannabis sold within Washington to any member of the public over the age of twenty-one and to the Washington state liquor control board.

The full text of the bill is available at: search.leg.wa.gov/pub/textsearch/ViewRoot.asp

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About Rebekah Lu

My name is Rebekah and I am an attorney specializing in Indirect Taxes at Thomson Reuters. I earned my JD from Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon and have focused exclusively on indirect tax law including sales/use, VAT and telecom since graduation.


Currently I have the good fortune to work in the International Tax Research Department where my responsibilities include researching international tax laws and trends as well as managing our Indirect Tax Research Library. My position has provided me with a superb opportunity to see the world through the lens of its tax laws. Although tax is serious business, it can also be humorous at times and always interesting. I am excited to be able to share my knowledge and enthusiasm for transaction tax with the readers of this blog.