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Taxation Law Section Bill
Referrals - 2005 - Final Status |
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Washington State Bar
Association |
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Section contact: Nicole
Chicoine |
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Bill Number |
Title |
Position |
Status |
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Bills the Section took
position or sponsored: |
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Providing
an excise tax exemption for new businesses. |
Neutral |
Failed
to pass |
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Repealing
outdated and unused tax preferences. |
Neutral |
Chapter
443, Laws of 2005. Effective date |
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Increasing
the monthly business excise tax credit. |
Neutral |
Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the review of tax preferences. |
Neutral |
Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the business and occupation taxation of slaughtering, breaking, and/or
processing perishable meat products. |
Oppose |
Failed
to pass |
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Bills of interest to
Section: |
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Eliminating
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Failed
to pass |
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Requiring
a six-year review of property tax exemptions. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
tax abatement provisions. |
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Chapter
56, Laws of 2005. Effective date |
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Providing
tax incentives for certain multiple-unit dwellings in urban centers. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
senior citizen property tax provisions. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
property tax relief. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
tax incentives for solar energy systems. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Sharing
state sales and use tax revenue with local governments. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a real estate excise tax exemption for certain farm and agricultural land. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Clarifying
property tax provisions. Revised for 1st
Substitute: Making clarifying changes to property tax statutes. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
property tax exemptions related to churches and other religious
organizations. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a business and occupation tax deduction for new businesses. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
tax incentives to attract and retain the biotechnology industry. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a sales and use tax exemption for the modification or construction of facilities
financed with voter-approved bonds. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the business and occupation tax of wholesale sales of motor vehicle and
special fuels. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Authorizing
the governor to enter into cigarette tax contracts with additional tribes. |
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Chapter
208, Laws of 2005. Effective date |
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Authorizing
the governor to enter into a cigarette tax agreement with the Puyallup Tribe
of Indians. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a business and occupation tax credit for employer-sponsored health coverage
and contributions. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the application requirements for the rural county business and occupation tax
credit. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a sales and use tax exemption for certain parts and services for machinery
and equipment used by a farmer. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the administration of taxes. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the taxation of land valued under the open space program. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Authorizing
a program to develop proposed legislation that provides business and
occupation tax credits to physicians serving uninsured, medicare, and
medicaid patients. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
municipal business and occupation taxation.
Revised for 1st Substitute: Modifying the allocation of printing and
publishing income for municipal business and occupation taxes. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the impact of statewide initiatives on local tax authority. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a sales and use tax exemption for certain medical equipment. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
local government use of real estate excise tax revenue. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
cigarette taxation. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Exempting
service contracts to administer parking and business improvement areas from
excise taxation. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the business and occupation tax credit for property tax payments related to
the manufacture of commercial airplanes. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Limiting
the tax exemption for sales to nonresidents. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
property tax exemptions for persons with disabilities related to the
performance of military duties. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a use tax exemption for certain tangible goods purchased outside the state. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the taxation of omitted property. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
a sales and use tax deferral for the construction of a historic automobile
museum. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Authorizing
a business and occupation tax credit study. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Authorizing
a study to propose tax incentives that would promote investment in small
business incubators. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Concerning
proceeds from the real estate excise tax. |
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Chapter
486, Laws of
2005. Effective date |
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Relating
to an expansion of local option real estate excise taxes in lieu of impact
fees to fund capital projects. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Providing
for expansion of the local option real estate excise tax to fund capital
projects. Revised for 1st Substitute: Authorizing
an expansion of local real estate excise taxes in lieu of impact fees. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the excise taxation of fruit and vegetable processing and storage. |
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Chapter
513, Laws of 2005. Effective date |
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Conforming
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Failed
to pass |
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Exempting
payment for certain services provided by public development authorities from
business and occupation taxation. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Conforming
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Failed
to pass |
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Requesting
Congress to permanently repeal the death tax. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Updating
state law to conform to changes in the federal estate tax. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Expanding
health benefit plan options available to employers. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Allowing
terminally ill members to remove themselves from their retirement plan. |
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Chapter
131, Laws of 2005. Effective date |
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Conforming
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
the high technology business and occupation tax credit. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Exempting
royalty income on patents and copyrights from business and occupation tax for
five years. |
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Failed
to pass |
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Modifying
requirements for voter-approved regular property tax levies. |
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Failed
to pass |
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