Transit agencies and federally recognized Indian tribes that provide public transportation services.
Purchases of qualifying zero emission buses by transit agencies and federally recognized Indian tribes.
Give the seller a completed Buyer’s Retail Sales Tax Exemption Certificate.
Available to:
Persons making purchases of materials and equipment, labor, or services to be incorporated in an eligible “clean technology” investment project.
Program requirements:
An eligible investment project with costs of at least $2 million in either qualified buildings and/or qualified machinery and equipment, for any of the following new, renovated, or expanded:
Available to:
Persons constructing solar canopies placed on large-scale commercial parking lots at qualifying commercial centers.
Applying for a deferral:
The application must be submitted before initiation of construction.
Beginning July 1, 2022, a sales and use tax exemption is available for new or used electric vehicles powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The Department of Licensing (DOL) maintains a list of qualifying vehicles.
Public transportation agencies, major employers, and employees of major employers purchasing ride-share vehicles.
To qualify for a sales or use tax exemption, the passenger motor vehicle purchased must:
Businesses that use commercial vehicles to transport commodities, merchandise, produce, refuse, freight, animals or passengers, using vehicles that use clean alternative fuel. The vehicle must display a WA license plate.
Qualifying activity:
Purchases or leases of new commercial vehicles and qualifying used commercial vehicles with propulsion units that are principally powered by a clean alternative fuel. This includes:
Anyone who purchases an electric vehicle battery or fuel cell, or installs an electric vehicle battery, fuel cell charging station, or hydrogen fueling stations.
Manufacturers, manufacturers that sell their product at wholesale, and processors for hire of solar energy systems and specified components of solar energy systems using photovoltaic modules or stirling converters.
Buyers of solar energy systems and installation.
Purchases of machinery and equipment used directly in a solar energy system if both of the following apply:
Beginning Aug. 1, 2019, a sales and use tax exemption for new or used clean alternative fuel and certain plug-in hybrid vehicles is available. The Department of Licensing maintains a list of qualifying vehicles.
Skip to main content
