The Tulalip Tribes will retain all sales tax revenue generated at its Quil Ceda Village beginning July 1 after two decades of grappling with the State of Washington over its taxation of non-Native business transactions on Tulalip lands.
A state law approved in 2020 and modified in 2025 settled a long-running dispute that had cost Tulalip Tribes at least $450 million in tax revenues collected in the commercial and retail community that Tulalip built on its lands decades ago and consolidated as a municipality.
“Quil Ceda Village is more than a collection of businesses; it is an exercise of tribal sovereignty,” Tulalip Tribes Vice Chairwoman Deborah Parker said Aug. 8 at the village’s 25th anniversary celebration.
