Seattle City Council unanimously approves tax on large businesses to house poor and help homeless

[kpete]

SEATTLE — After weeks of tense and raucous meetings, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved (9-0) a controversial tax on the city's largest businesses in an effort to fight homelessness.

The council needed five votes to pass the measure and six votes to override a mayoral veto. They got nine votes.

In the end, the approved employee hours tax, or head tax, was a compromise between members of the council and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.

The approved bill calls for a $275 tax per employee, per year on companies grossing more than $20 million in Seattle. That is down from the original bill, which called for a $500 per employee head tax. On Friday, Mayor Durkan signaled she would veto the original bill.




http://q13fox.com/2018/05/14/seattle-city-council-approves-scaled-down-employee-hours-tax/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/14/1764335/-Seattle-City-Council-unanimously-votes-to-tax-largest-businesses-to-help-house-and-help-the-homeless

[BigmanPigman]

1. How can she veto it if it was passed by nine members?

[suffragette]

2. She had threatened to veto the original

measure, which had a5-4 vote for a $500 tax.
The current one is a compromise one.