// Exemption

Digital automated service - live presentations

Retail Sales & Use Tax exemption · RCW 82.04.192(3)(b)(x) · enacted 2009

All exemptions & deductions
Repealed / removedESSB 5814 (2025) · effective 2025-10-01

Before ESSB 5814

Live presentations (lectures, seminars, workshops, and similar real-time events) were excluded from the definition of a "digital automated service" under RCW 82.04.192(3)(b)(x) and were not a retail sale — reported under the service & other activities B&O classification only (2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study baseline).

Source: 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study · RCW 82.04.192(3)(b)(x)

After

Effective October 1, 2025, ESSB 5814 removed the live-presentations DAS exclusion for general sales and enumerated live presentations as a retail sale under RCW 82.04.050, subject to retail sales/use tax and retailing B&O. The DAS exclusion is retained only for affiliated-group sales. Confirm against ESSB 5814 and DOR's live-presentations interim guidance.

Source: ESSB 5814 (2025)

Details

Citation
RCW 82.04.192(3)(b)(x)
Study reference
E1558-1
Tax type
Retail Sales & Use Tax
Preference type
Exemption
Category
Business
Year enacted
2009
End date
None scheduled

Fiscal impact (2024 study estimates)

Revenue if repealed — local ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 85.33 · FY 2026: 97.23 · FY 2027: 101.86
Revenue if repealed — state ($M)
FY 2024: 0 · FY 2025: 152.41 · FY 2026: 173.68 · FY 2027: 181.93
Taxpayer savings — local ($M)
FY 2024: 89.65 · FY 2025: 93.09 · FY 2026: 97.23 · FY 2027: 101.86
Taxpayer savings — state ($M)
FY 2024: 199.35 · FY 2025: 207.01 · FY 2026: 216.21 · FY 2027: 226.5

CTI = confidential taxpayer information · D = unable to disclose

From the 2024 DOR Tax Exemption Study

Det. No. 11-0363, 32 WTD 123 (June 27, 2013) 126 purchasing the equipment for resale, and must pay sales/use tax on the equipment when acquired.4 The taxpayer incurred use tax. Our issue is not whether the taxpayer owed use tax on its use of the cranes, but whether the taxpayer was entitled to a credit for the Texas retail sales tax that the taxpayer paid. RCW 82.12.035 allows a credit for retail sales or use taxes paid to other jurisdictions with respect to property used in Washington: A credit is allowed against the taxes imposed by this chapter upon the use in this state of tangible personal property, extended warranty, digital good, digital code, digital automated service, or services defined as a retail sale in RCW 82.04.050 (2) (a) or (g), (3)(a), or (6)(b), in the amount that the present user thereof or his or her bailor or donor has paid a legally imposed retail sales or use tax with respect to such property, extended warranty, digital good, digital code, digital automated service, or service defined as a retail sale in RCW 82.04.050 (2) (a) or (g), (3)(a), or (6)(b) to any other state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States, any political subdivision t

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