USA Today: After Losing Fight to Levy ‘Amazon tax,’ Seattle Is Back to Square One on Helping Homeless

The construction pause “was a concrete action as opposed to just a threat,” said Matthew Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on federal, state and local tax reform issues.

“It seems pretty clear now that whoever ‘wins’ the HQ2 battle is very likely going to be giving Amazon a free pass on a wide variety of state and local taxes for some period of time,” he said. Read more