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Retail Sales & Use Tax exclusion · RCW 82.04.050(2)(a) · enacted 1973
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(2)(a)
- Study reference
- E1543-1
- Tax type
- Retail Sales & Use Tax
- Preference type
- Exclusion
- Category
- Individuals
- Year enacted
- 1973
- End date
- None scheduled
Fiscal impact (2024 study estimates)
- Revenue if repealed — local ($M)
- FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0.037 · FY 2026: 0.042 · FY 2027: 0.044
- Revenue if repealed — state ($M)
- FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 0.064 · FY 2026: 0.072 · FY 2027: 0.082
- Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
- FY 2024: 0.039 · FY 2025: 0.041 · FY 2026: 0.042 · FY 2027: 0.044
- Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
- FY 2024: 0.073 · FY 2025: 0.073 · FY 2026: 0.072 · FY 2027: 0.082
CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose
From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study
Effective dates — 1975 1st ex.s. c 291: "This 1975 amendatory act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing institutions, and shall take effect immediately: PROVIDED, That sections 8 and 26 through 43 of this amendatory act shall be effective on and after January 1, 1976: PROVIDED FURTHER, That sections 2, 3, and 4, and subsections (1) and (2) of section 24 shall be effective on and after January 1, 1977: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That subsections (3) through (15) of section 24 shall be effective on and after January 1, 1978." [ 1975 1st ex.s. c 291 s 46 .] Severability — 1975 1st ex.s. c 291: "If any provision of this 1975 amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1975 1st ex.s. c 291 s 45 .] Effective date — 1975 1st ex.s. c 90: "This 1975 amendatory act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July
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