Ordinance 2711 - Laserfiche WebLink

00 • • • -• . (d) Upon every person engaged in or carrying on the business of selling or furnishing steam heat to the public for hire, a fee or tax eqnsl to =WO percent ( 2 ) of the total gross income from such business in the pity during his fiscal year next preceding the tax year for which the license is required. ( e) It is expressly provided that nothing in this section or this Ordinance contained shall be held to apply to any person engaged in any business activity, herein referred to, under a franchise with the city of i,verett on which there is paid annually a gross income or gross earnings tax of Two percent (2;0) or more . , Section 6. OCCUPATIONS AND PRIVILEGES SUBJECT TO TAX - AMOUNT: 2here are hereby levied and shall be collected annual license fees or occupation taxes on account of business activities I or privileges, and in the amounts herein fixed, as follows: e Upon every person engaged in or carrying on a municipal bus transportation system within the City of everett for the el' transportation of passengers for hire, the sum ofTwtnty-five Doll :rs ( 45.00) for each vehicle used in transportation of passengers ee *1 for hire-' in connection with said business. eection 7. eaCE2TION3 AND REDUCTIONS: There shall be excepted and deducted from the total 19 gross income upon which the license fee or tax is computed, so much thereof as is derived from transactions in interstate or & P )111 foreign commerce, or from business done for the government of the united states, its officers or agents, the State of dashing- ton, its officers or agents, or any political or municipal sub- division thereof, including but not limited to the eity of nverett, school districts, port commissions and all governmental (whether federal, state or municipal) agencies or entities, and any amount paid by the taxpayer to the Lnited states, the State of eashington, or to the city of verett as excise taxes levied or imposed upon the sale or distribution of property or services, and also any business or occupation tax paid by the taxpayer to the United States or to the State of eashington and any other business or occupation tax paid by the taxpayer to the pity of everett . Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as re- quiring a license, or the payment of a license fee or tex, or the doing of any act, which would constitute an unlawful burden or interference in violation of the Constitution or laws of the _nited States, or which would not be consistent with the eonstitution or laws of the state of eashington. Section 8: APPLI"Cl2ION OR RETURN FOR LICENSE: en or before the 1st day of January, 1937, and there- after on or before the first day of each tax year, every tax- payer shall apply to the eity elerk for an "Occupation License" upon blanks or forms of return to be prepared and providee by him requesting such information as may be necessary to enable him to arrive at the lawful amount of the fee or tax. ehe tax- payer shall, in a legible manner, write in such blank or form of return the information required and shall sign the same and by affidavit at the foot thereof shall swear or affirm that the information therein given is full and true and that he knows the same to be so.