Who Pays REET on Your Street: Washington State's Real Estate Excise Tax in Light of the 1991 Corporate Transfer Act and Beyond—How Can the Legislature Solve Deer Park Pine?

Authors

Georges H.G. Yates

Abstract

This Comment aims to give the reader a complete understanding of Washington’s Real Estate Excise Tax. Further, this Comment advocates replacing the current law. Specifically, this Comment argues that REET is in desperate need of repair; it then considers the options available to the Washington State Legislature in 1993. The Comment concludes that, with a few important alternations, the solution lies in a proposal that died in the House Revenue Committee in 1992.

Recommended Citation

Georges H.G. Yates, Who Pays REET on Your Street: Washington State's Real Estate Excise Tax in Light of the 1991 Corporate Transfer Act and Beyond—How Can the Legislature Solve Deer Park Pine?, 16 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 463 (1992).