(Expires July 1, 2045.) (1) In addition to the taxes imposed under RCW 82.04.260(12), a surcharge is imposed on those persons who are subject to any of the taxes imposed under RCW 82.04.260(12). Except as otherwise provided in this section, the surcharge is equal to 0.052 percent. The surcharge is added to the rates provided in RCW 82.04.260(12) (a), (b), (c), and (d). (2) All receipts from the surcharge imposed under this section must be deposited into the forest and fish support account created in RCW 76.09.405, with any receipts above eight million dollars per biennium specifically used as additional funding for tribal participation grants. (3)(a) The surcharge imposed under this section is suspended if: (i) Before July 1, 2024, receipts from the surcharge total at least eight million five hundred thousand dollars during any fiscal biennium; (ii) Between July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2029, receipts from the surcharge total at least nine million dollars during any fiscal biennium; and (iii) After June 30, 2029, the receipts from the surcharge total at least nine million five hundred thousand dollars during any fiscal biennium. (b) The suspension of the surcharge under this subsection (3) takes effect on the first day of the calendar month that is at least thirty days after the end of the month during which the department determines that receipts from the surcharge total the values specified in this subsection (3) during the fiscal biennium. The surcharge is imposed again at the beginning of the following fiscal biennium. (4) This section expires July 1, 2045. [ 2021 c 145 s 8; 2019 c 336 s 5; 2017 c 323 s 501; 2010 1st sp.s. c 23 s 510. Prior: 2007 c 54 s 7; 2007 c 48 s 4; 2006 c 300 s 2.]
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