Audits
Washington's millionaires tax can reach households where no one earns $1 million.
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First Look
A: Passes the first look: nothing obviously wrong. Minor notes may be reported as feedback without lowering the grade.
- Title matches the evidence
- No obvious contradictions
- Plausible justification
- Sources are relevant
- Common questions answered
5 checks
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Pass Title matches the evidence
The title that households with no $1 million earner can owe the tax is supported by the couples, one-time income and stacking evidence items. The threshold claim of about half of inflation matches the section 316 evidence and the projection.
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Pass No obvious contradictions
The finding True matches the answer and conclusion. The $821,000 figure, 9.9% deduction math ($9,900 on $1.1M) and $17,060 stacking figure are consistent across sections. The 0.57% figure in the half-percent response is not a glance-level contradiction and is noted in coverage.
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Pass Plausible justification
The conclusion gives three concrete routes (shared deduction, AGI-based one-time income, capital gains add-back) plus the indexing rule and explains why the True rating follows from the statute.
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Pass Sources are relevant
Bill report, session law, voters' pamphlet, RCW sections, amendment texts, Wallin tax-blog analyses, the Inlander DOR report and FactHub datasets are all on topic for the claims they support.
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Pass Common questions answered
Five objections are present and each response addresses its question: the half-percent sentence, the No and Yes pamphlet rebuttals, the drafting error and home sales.
Coverage: Read only the article payload, key points, conclusion, evidence, objections, method and source takeaways. No source snapshots or web were consulted. No takeaway in the sources block is marked established: every takeaway, including the FactHub dataset takeaways, shows status 'not yet checked'. The key points labeled established therefore rest on unchecked takeaways, and I treated them as unchecked. Not flagged: the half-percent response says 0.57% of 2022 returns reported $1 million or more, but dataset fh-mix gives 21,530 such returns, about 0.68% of 3,168,080 households. 0.57% matches the 18,180 joint returns instead. This is left for the Source Checker or Standards reviewer. Arithmetic spot-checked: $9,900 couple tax, $17,060 stacking tax, $821,000 threshold, and the 0.66% and 0.79% household shares.