Preferential Rate

Meat processors

B&O Tax preferential rate · RCW 82.04.260(4) · enacted 1967

All exemptions & deductions

Details

Citation
RCW 82.04.260(4)
Study reference
E1026-1
Tax type
B&O Tax
Preference type
Preferential Rate
Category
Agriculture
Year enacted
1967
End date
None scheduled

Fiscal impact (2024 study estimates)

Revenue if repealed — local ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0 · FY 2026: 0 · FY 2027: 0
Revenue if repealed — state ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 28.68 · FY 2026: 33.25 · FY 2027: 35.33
Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0 · FY 2026: 0 · FY 2027: 0
Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
FY 2024: 29.43 · FY 2025: 31.28 · FY 2026: 33.25 · FY 2027: 35.33

CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose

From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study

PDF RCW 82.04.280 Tax on printers, publishers, highway contractors, extracting or processing for hire, cold storage warehouse or storage warehouse operation, insurance general agents, government contractors — Cold storage warehouse defined — Storage warehouse defined — Periodical or magazine defined. (Effective until January 1, 2026.) (1) Upon every person engaging within this state in the business of: (a) Printing materials other than newspapers, and of publishing periodicals or magazines; (b) building, repairing or improving any street, place, road, highway, easement, right-of-way, mass public transportation terminal or parking facility, bridge, tunnel, or trestle which is owned by a municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state or by the United States and which is used or to be used, primarily for foot or vehicular traffic including mass transportation vehicles of any kind and including any readjustment, reconstruction or relocation of the facilities of any public, private or cooperatively owned utility or railroad in the course of such building, repairing or improving, the cost of which readjustment, reconstruction, or relocation, is the responsibility of the publ

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