Tax topics | Washington Department of Revenue

These articles provide information about taxes in Washington state. See our Special Notices for updates to existing tax law, and Industry Guides to better understand tax requirements for specific industries.

Topics	Issue Date	Subjects
Interim statement regarding the taxation of individual monitoring agency services	03/08/2017	Individual monitoring agency services
Data centers - sales and use tax exemption eligibility	04/06/2017	Data centers
Bidding on construction projects	04/06/2017	Construction bidding
Computer software maintenance agreements	04/15/2017	Software
Pet cremation services and sales of products	04/15/2017	Pet cremation
Portable self storage	05/10/2017	Self storage
Propane	05/15/2017	Propane
Investments	06/02/2017	Investments
Core drilling and soil sampling	06/02/2017	Core drilling
Telecommunications relay service	06/06/2017	Telecommunications
Bottled water - requesting a sales tax refund for exempt purchases	07/26/2017	Bottled water
2017 Tax legislation	08/16/2017	Legislation
Funding education	09/13/2017	Property tax
Refunds - How to request a refund	09/18/2017	Refunds
Adaptive housing for disabled veterans	11/03/2017	Veterans
Oregon vehicle use tax	12/08/2017	Vehicle
International investment management services – Fund distribution, fund administration, & related investment services (e.g., transfer agent services)	12/18/2017	International investment
High technology sales and use tax deferral program	12/22/2017	High technology
Delivery charges	12/22/2017	Delivery charges
Swimming pools	02/08/2018	Swimming pools
Seattle’s sweetened beverage tax	04/12/2018	Beverage
2018 Tax legislation	05/07/2018	Legislation
Grocery store prepared food vendors	07/20/2018	Grocery vendors
Surcharges including tariffs	11/15/2018	Surcharges
Street obstruction and other use permits – leasehold excise tax	11/29/2018	Leasehold excise tax
Legal settlements - Are they taxable?	03/04/2019	Legal settlements
Nexus for click-through transactions will no longer apply, effective March 14, 2019	03/15/2019	Nexus
Sales tax on alarm monitoring services	05/28/2019	Alarm monitoring services
2019 Tax Legislation	05/29/2019	Legislation
Taxing sightseeing day trips taking place on waterways	10/17/2019	Day cruises