Audits
Within four years, Washington raised its capital gains tax and amended its income-tax ban.
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Across versions
| Version | First Look |
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| Version 1 | 5/5 |
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 says the capital gains tax was raised four years after enactment and the income-tax ban was amended two years after adoption. Evidence cg-surcharge (2025, tax enacted 2021) and i2111-carveout (2026, adopted 2024) match that scope and direction.
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Pass No obvious contradictions
Finding True agrees with the answer and conclusion. Dates, the 2.9% surcharge, the 9.9% top rate, the $1 million threshold and the vote counts are consistent across evidence, key points and conclusion. The estate-tax rollback is presented as a caveat, not a contradiction.
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Pass Plausible justification
The conclusion gives a reason for True: both changes are documented as enacted by simple majority with necessity clauses, and the counterexamples are stated and weighed. A reader would accept that this supports the rating.
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Pass Sources are relevant
The codified capital gains statutes, the 2025 and 2026 bill reports and session law, the I-2111 bill history and RCW 1.90.100, the estate-tax bill report, the voters pamphlet and the FactHub collections dataset are all on topic for the points they support.
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Pass Common questions answered
There are three common questions (Taxes Always Expand, voters kept the tax, the prediction about lowering the threshold). Each response addresses its question directly.
Coverage: I read only the article payload and the source takeaways supplied in the input. I did not open any source, snapshot or web page. Every takeaway in the sources block is marked status not yet checked, so none is established. The keyPoints labeled established rest on those unchecked takeaways, so I treated them as unchecked and did not use them to clear any check. The checks above rest on the article's own internal consistency. Not verified: the 64.11 percent I-2109 vote figure, the Governor's veto pledge (no source cited), the $270,000 deduction figure against the October 2025 start of indexing in cg-indexed, and the exact vote counts. The article's own limitations and editorial note were taken as written. No check was overturned on these points.