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Native businesses in WA navigate ‘very complex’ tax system, red tape
Native entrepreneurs say state registration rules and limited startup capital make it harder to grow businesses, while only 1.5% employ workers, Census data show.
Summary
While customers perused Rings of Chain's table displays of abalone shell pendants, beaded earrings and brooches, owner Ha-huli-tud Tionna Marie Hawk greeted a Suquamish Tribal elder, Kippie Joe, approaching her business' canopy tents.