What's new
Special Notices
- New graduated real estate excise tax (REET) (posted Dec. 2019)
- State resumes petroleum products tax collection (posted Dec. 2019)
- Advanced computing surcharge (posted Dec. 2019)
- Preliminary injunction granted for Initiative 976 implementation (posted Dec. 2019)
Tax Topics
News Releases
- Four Eastern Washington cities to join BLS in January
- Annual filers: New April 15 due date
- Retail sales hit $46 billion in second quarter 2019
Forms
- Application for Refund on Machinery and Equipment for Manufacturing, Research and Development, or a Testing Operation (posted Jan. 2020)
- Tribal Business Addendum (posted Jan. 2020)
- Dec. 2019 Excise Tax Return (posted Jan. 2020)
- Q4 2019 Excise Tax Return (posted Dec. 2019)
- Banned Vapor Products Tax Worksheet (posted Dec. 2019)
New or updated content
- Clean alternative fuel commercial vehicle and vehicle infrastructure tax credit (posted Jan. 2020)
- Statistics & reports (posted Jan. 2020)
- Food services and drinking places (posted Jan. 2020)
- State sales tax refund for qualified nonresidents (posted Jan. 2020)
- 2019 Descriptive statistics (posted Jan. 2020)
- Real estate excise tax (posted Jan. 2019)
- Estate tax tables (posted Jan. 2020)
- Property tax assistance program for widows or widowers of veterans (posted Dec. 2019)
- Property tax deferral for homeowners with limited income (posted Dec. 2019)
- Property tax deferral for senior citizens and disabled persons (posted Dec. 2019)
- Property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled persons (posted Dec. 2019)
Interpretive Statements
- Draft ETA related to sales to residents of states or possessions of the US, and territories or provinces of Canada, that do not impose a tax of at least three percent (posted for comment Jan. 2020)
- Issued ETA 3195.2020 Economic Nexus Minimum Thresholds (posted Jan. 2020)
- Issued ETA 3218.2020 Collection Agents: Requirements to exclude certain amounts from gross income (posted Jan. 2020)
- Draft PTA related to occupancy requirement for senior citizen, disabled person, and disabled veteran property tax exemption (posted for comment Jan. 2020)
- Issued ETA 3215.2019 Graduated Real Estate Excise Tax (REET): Land classifications & predominant use (posted Dec. 2019)
Laws & Rules
- Adopted WAC 458-16-560 Housing for very low-income households (posted Jan. 2020
- Filed expedited proposal for WAC 458-61A-113 Timber, standing (posted Jan. 2020)
- Adopted WAC 458-20-252 Hazardous substance tax (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-20-13501 Timber harvest operations (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-18-220 Rates of interest (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-30-590 Rates of inflation--Publication-Interest rate--Calculation (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-30-262 Agricultural land valuation--Interest rate--Property tax component (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-40-540 Timber excise tax--Forest land values (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-40-660 Timber excise tax--Stumpage value tables--Stumpage value adjustments (posted Dec. 2019)
- Adopted WAC 458-20-177 Sales of motor vehicles, campers, and trailers to nonresident consumers (posted Dec. 2019)