Washington State relies on businesses and citizens to voluntarily pay their fair share of taxes to fund state services. Unfortunately, some businesses and citizens either don't understand, or purposely evade, their tax responsibility.
Our tax discovery staff actively pursues businesses and individuals to collect the taxes due to the state and its citizens.
Tax and license fraud includes:
- not registering an operating business,
- collecting, but not remitting, retail sales tax, or
- registering a vehicle, vessel, or plane out-of-state if the vehicle is
used in this state and use tax was not paid.
How to report:
To report an instance of tax fraud, please complete
the
Washington State Tax and
License Fraud form.