// Exemption
Digital automated service - live presentations
Retail Sales & Use Tax exemption · RCW 82.04.192(3)(b)(x) · enacted 2009
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- Revenue if repealed — local ($M)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- Revenue if repealed — state ($M)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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