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Briefing on proposed MID sales‑tax renewal: staff outline timeline, revenue forecast and engagement plans
Summary
Sam Porter of council central policy staff briefed the Regional Policy Committee on Aug. 20, 2025, on proposed legislation to renew the MID sales tax and highlighted a tight timeline to notify the state Department of Revenue by Oct. 18 to avoid interrupting collections.
Sam Porter of council central policy staff briefed the King County Regional Policy Committee on Aug. 20, 2025, about proposed ordinance to renew the Mental Illness and Drug Dependency (MID) sales tax for another nine‑year term, and he outlined schedule constraints for uninterrupted collections.
Porter said the proposed ordinance would continue collection of the one‑tenth‑of‑one‑percent MID sales tax, which has been imposed in King County since 2008 and is currently set to expire Jan. 1, 2026. Using the July 2025 OIFA forecast, staff projected roughly $203 million in MID revenue for the 2026‑27 biennium and more than $1 billion over the proposed nine‑year renewal, increases driven in part by the state’s 2025 sales‑tax…
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