Photo courtesy Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard🎧 Two Lawsuits Fight WA Income Tax Ballot Language Your browser does not support the audio element. Initiative 645 would repeal the 9.9% tax on individual and household wage income above $1 million a year that Gov. This ability “to alter the official ballot presentation of a completed initiative petition after petition circulation has concluded exceeds the Legislature’s authority,” he wrote. “He is asking the courts to invent a new restriction on official representations of ballot measures, one that doesn’t exist in the Washington State Constitution,” he wrote. This report was first published by the Washington State Standard.