My DOR Help
Set up
- Create a SecureAccess Washington SAW account
- Check if you have a SAW user ID
- Forgot your SAW User ID?
- Reset password
- Log into My DOR
- Add access to an account with a letter ID
- Request a letter to add access to an account
- Use secureaccess.wa.gov to access DOR services
Business licensing
- Apply for a new business license
- Renew a business license
- Print a business license
- Print a receipt for renewal
- Hire employees or add optional coverage for owners
- Update owner or officer (governing people)
- Add a city license or state endorsement
- Add a new location
Update your account
- Update a mailing address or location address
- Add a trade name
- Delete (cancel) a trade name
- Update business activity
- Close a tax account
- Close a license account
- Update your SAW username and email address
- Update your My DOR profile
Manage access to your accounts
- Grant another user access to an account
- Update another user's access
- Cancel another user's access
- Cancel your own access
- Check if you are an administrator
Messages and letters
- Send a message
- View and reply to a message
- Send a message with an attachment
- Archive messages
- View a letter
- Archive a letter
Payments and bank accounts
- Make a payment
- Delete a payment
- Set up a bank account for ONE business
- Set up a bank account to shared across ALL businesses and accounts
- Set a default bank account for ONE license or tax account
- Remove a bank account
- Clear a default bank account
- Rename a bank account
- Add or update an electronic refund bank account
- Remove an electronic refund account
- Pay using Quick Bill pay
File tax returns
- File an excise tax return
- File a return with no business activity
- File a saved (draft) return
- Amend a tax return
- View or print a copy of a return
- Request a return filing extension
- Upload a data file
- File a forest tax return
- File a leasehold return
Reseller permit
- Print a copy of your reseller permit
- Apply for or renew a reseller permit
- Appeal a reseller permit denial
- Check the status of a reseller permit for a business
Special credits
- Commercial Vehicle Credit application
- Alternative Fuel Vehicle Infrastructure Credit application
- Main Street Credit application
- Commute Trip Reduction application
- Apply a special credit to a return
- File Annual Apportionment Reconciliation
Customers with multiple businesses
- Mark a business as a Favorite
- Remove a business from the Favorites tab
- Access a business you recently worked on
- Manage payments and returns across all businesses and accounts
- Manage messages and letters across multiple businesses and accounts
- Archive messages and letters across multiple businesses and accounts
Self-service payment plans
- Enroll in a self-service payment plan
- Review your payment plan
- Change bank account information for a payment plan
- Cancel a payment plan
Manage your sales and use tax deferral account
- Apply online for a sales and use tax deferral
- Print a deferral certificate
- View current deferral balance
- Update deferral project detail
General public and other services
- File Consumer Use Tax Return. No login required
- File a Consumer Use Tax Return in My DOR
- File to claim money or property in My DOR
- Hire a domestic (household) employee
- Check appraiser accreditation status