Taxes in Yakima
Washington's no state income tax and Yakima's own genuinely lowest-in-this-build combined sales tax (8.5% as of January 2026) apply to Yakima residents, layered with a real, disclosed spread on Yakima County's effective property tax rate (0.82%-1.05%).
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Learn moreNo state personal income tax
Washington has no state personal income tax -- a real, structural advantage for Yakima residents, funded instead through sales taxes, business taxes, and the capital gains excise tax for high earners specifically.
Yakima's genuinely low combined sales tax
Yakima's combined sales tax reached 8.5% in January 2026 (up from 8.3%) -- Washington's 6.5% state rate plus a 2.0% city rate, genuinely the lowest combined sales tax rate among this build's five new Washington markets.
Property tax: a real, disclosed spread, running above the state average
Yakima County's effective property tax rate carries a real, disclosed spread across sources: 0.82% (0.818% more precisely) per one source, cited as exceeding Washington's own 0.761% statewide average by that source, versus a separate, notably higher county-median citation of 1.05% -- both disclosed rather than reconciled.
The capital gains excise tax: real for high earners
Washington's capital gains excise tax (7% base rate, 9.9% above $1 million in gains as of the 2025 expansion) applies statewide, including in Yakima -- a genuinely narrow-base tax exempting real estate and retirement accounts, but real and current for high earners.
Key takeaways
- Washington has no state personal income tax, a real, structural advantage for Yakima residents.
- Yakima's combined sales tax (8.5%) is genuinely the lowest among this build's five new Washington markets.
- Yakima County's effective property tax rate carries a real, disclosed spread (0.82%-1.05%), running at or above Washington's statewide average.
- Washington's capital gains excise tax (7%-9.9%) applies to high earners statewide, including in Yakima.
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