Exclusion
Labor and services used to construct and repair federal government structures
Retail Sales & Use Tax exclusion · RCW 82.04.050(12) · enacted 1975
No 2025–26 change identified — this preference was reviewed against the 2025–26 session laws and is unchanged from the 2024 study baseline.
Details
- Citation
- RCW 82.04.050(12)
- Study reference
- E1541-1
- Tax type
- Retail Sales & Use Tax
- Preference type
- Exclusion
- Category
- Business
- Year enacted
- 1975
- 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- Revenue if repealed — local ($M)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- Revenue if repealed — state ($M)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: 0 · FY 2027: 0
- Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
- FY 2024: 34.5 · FY 2025: 34.5 · FY 2026: 34.5 · FY 2027: 34.5
- Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
- FY 2024: 96.1 · FY 2025: 96.1 · FY 2026: 96.1 · FY 2027: 96.1
CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose
From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study
(Effective until October 1, 2025.) (11) The term also does not include sales of chemical sprays or washes to persons for the purpose of postharvest treatment of fruit for the prevention of scald, fungus, mold, or decay, nor does it include sales of feed, seed, seedlings, fertilizer, agents for enhanced pollination including insects such as bees, and spray materials to: (a) Persons who participate in the federal conservation reserve program, the environmental quality incentives program, the wetlands reserve program, and the wildlife habitat incentives program, or their successors administered by the United States department of agriculture; (b) farmers for the purpose of producing for sale any agricultural product; (c) farmers for the purpose of providing bee pollination services; and (d) farmers acting under cooperative habitat development or access contracts with an organization exempt from federal income tax under 26 U.S.C. Sec. 501(c)(3) of the federal internal revenue code or the Washington state department of fish and wildlife to produce or improve wildlife habitat on land that the farmer owns or leases. (12) The term does not include the sale of or charge made for labor and
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