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By Eric Viola, WCTA Public Policy Analyst Background The Business and Occupation High Technology Tax Credit was enacted in 1994 to support Washington’s fledgling high tech sector.  High tech business in Washington now account for more than a quarter of jobs in the state.  Due in large part to a convergence of funding concerns for […]

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Senate Finance Committee leaders unveiled a new draft of a bill to extend tax breaks Thursday morning, a version that includes the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) that benefits the wind energy industry. The PTC was included in the new “chairman’s mark” that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the panel’s chairman, and Sen. Orrin Hatch […]

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