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Estate Tax deduction · RCW 83.100.047 · enacted 2005

All exemptions & deductions

Details

Citation
RCW 83.100.047
Study reference
E1239-1
Tax type
Estate Tax
Preference type
Deduction
Category
Individuals
Year enacted
2005
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Revenue if repealed — local ($M)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Revenue if repealed — state ($M)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 · FY 2026: 292.5 · FY 2027: 390
Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0 · FY 2026: 0 · FY 2027: 0
Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
FY 2024: 390 · FY 2025: 390 · FY 2026: 390 · FY 2027: 390

CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose

From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study

15-0065R, 35 WTD 319 (2016) | 07/29/2016 | [35WTD319.pdf](/sites/default/files/2021-10/35WTD319.pdf) | A firm that provides medical imaging services petitions for reconsideration of Det. No. 15-0065, which sustained assessment of B&O tax on fees received from patients that were subsequently paid to physicians who interpreted the medical images. We deny Taxpayer’s petition, finding that Taxpayer neither acted as a billing agent for the physicians nor as an agent of the patients. Det. No. 15-0183, 35 WTD 337 (2016) | 07/29/2016 | [35WTD337.pdf](/sites/default/files/2021-10/35WTD337.pdf) | A contracting company petitions for the correction of assessment of retail sales tax on acquired capital assets from its predecessor company arguing that it received the capital assets in a business reorganization. Taxpayer’s petition is denied. Det. No. 15-0324, 35 WTD 348 (2016) | 07/29/2016 | [35WTD348.pdf](/sites/default/files/2021-10/35WTD348.pdf) | Health care provider appeals the denial of its request for refund of service and other activities B&O tax paid on receipts from insurance carriers that participate in the FEHB and MA programs, asserting the tax is preempted by federal law.

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