Quarterly Business Reviews
A compilation of statistics on gross income, taxable retail sales and accrued tax liability as reported by Washington State excise taxpayers.
Customized Quarterly Business Review (QBR) tables
Use our Create a report tool to select the tables most important to you! You can use this tool to create local sales and use tax reports for specified jurisdictions, including jurrisdictions not contained in the regular QBR publication, as well as gross business income tables, state retail sales tax tables, and a variety of other reports.
Quarterly Business Review publications by year
The QBR publications contain standardized tables detailing gross business income, taxable retail sales and accrued tax liability by major industry. Beginning with 2005, the QBR tables were converted from SIC to NAICS codes. This was an effort to move in line with national standards. For more information on SIC and NAICS codes please visit our Frequently asked questions.
When is this data updated?
Our goal is to post new data as follows:
Quarter 1 - early August (includes January, February, March monthly and Quarter 1 reporters)
Quarter 2 - early November (includes April, May, June monthly and Quarter 2 reporters)
Quarter 3 - early February (includes July, August, September monthly and Quarter 3 reporters)
Quarter 4 - early May (includes October, November, December monthly, Quarter 4 and Annual reporters)
Calendar year - approximately 1 week after the Quarter 4 posting
Note: The current contact phone number will be in the most recent QBR publication
Detailed tax data by industry and tax classification
This data represents information reported on Washington's combined excise tax return. The data is grouped by tax classification and either NAICS code or SIC code. This detail data is used to produce the QBR and a variety of other statistics and reports.