Western Telepage, Inc. v. City of Tacoma Department of Financing

Supreme Court of Washington · Decided 2000-05-11

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Talmadge, J. We must decide in this case if the City of Tacoma’s (Tacoma) local public utility tax on paging services is consistent with the state law definition of a taxable telephone business under RCW 82.04.065(4), and whether Tacoma’s tax constitutes an excessive increase in a tax rate pursuant to RCW 35.21.710. Insofar as paging services involve the transmission of data by microwave systems, we conclude Tacoma’s local publi…

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