Preferential Rate
Chemical dependency treatment
B&O Tax preferential rate · RCW 82.04.2906 · enacted 2003
Details
- Citation
- RCW 82.04.2906
- Study reference
- E1038-1
- Tax type
- B&O Tax
- Preference type
- Preferential Rate
- Category
- Business
- Year enacted
- 2003
- 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- Revenue if repealed — local ($M)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- Revenue if repealed — state ($M)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: 0.84 · FY 2026: 0.97 · FY 2027: 1.04
- Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
- FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0 · FY 2026: 0 · FY 2027: 0
- Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
- FY 2024: 0.86 · FY 2025: 0.92 · FY 2026: 0.97 · FY 2027: 1.04
CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose
From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study
PDF RCW 82.04.2906 Tax on certain chemical dependency services. (Effective until January 1, 2027.) (1) Upon every person engaging within this state in the business of providing intensive inpatient or recovery house residential treatment services for chemical dependency, certified by the department of social and health services, for which payment from the United States or any instrumentality thereof or from the state of Washington or any municipal corporation or political subdivision thereof is received as compensation for or to support those services; as to such persons the amount of tax with respect to such business shall be equal to the gross income from such services multiplied by the rate of 0.484 percent. (2) If the persons described in subsection (1) of this section receive income from sources other than those described in subsection (1) of this section or provide services other than those named in subsection (1) of this section, that income and those services are subject to tax as otherwise provided in this chapter. [ 2003 c 343 s 1 .]
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