Ordinance 2582-02 - Laserfiche WebLink

(2)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if imposition of the City's tax would place an undue burden upon interstate commerce or violate constitutional requirements, a taxpayer shall be allowed a credit to the extent necessary to preserve the validity of the City's tax, and still apply the City tax to as much of the taxpayer's activities as may be subject to the City's taxing authority. (3) To take the credit authorized by this section, a taxpayer must be able to document that the amount of tax sought to be credited was paid upon the same gross receipts used in computing the tax against which the credit is applied and that the taxpayer paid the amount of tax sought to be credited. In order to qualify as an "eligible gross receipts tax", the tax must be imposed at the local level. (4) Credit for persons that sell in the city products that they extract or manufacture. Persons taxable under the retailing or wholesaling classification with respect to selling products in this City shall be allowed a credit against those taxes for any eligible gross receipts taxes paid (a)with respect to the manufacturing of the products sold in the City, and (b) with respect to the extracting of the products, or the ingredients used in the products, sold in the city. The amount of the credit shall not exceed the tax liability arising under this chapter with respect to the sale of those products. (5) Credit for persons that manufacture products in the city using ingredients they extract. Persons taxable under the manufacturing classification with respect to manufacturing products in this City shall be allowed a credit against those taxes for any eligible gross receipts tax paid with respect to extracting the ingredients of the products manufactured in the city. The amount of the credit shall not exceed the tax liability arising under this chapter with respect to the manufacturing of those products. (6) Credit for persons that sell within the city products that they print, or publish and print. Persons taxable under the retailing or wholesaling classification with respect to selling products in this City shall be allowed a credit against those taxes for any eligible gross receipts taxes paid with respect to the printing, or the printing and publishing, of the products sold within the city. The amount of the credit shall not exceed the tax liability arising under this chapter with respect to the sale of those products. This section provides a tax credit for taxpayers engaged in multiple taxable activities. The section provides a credit against eligible selling or manufacturing taxes imposed by the City for extracting or manufacturing taxes paid to the City or to any other local jurisdiction with respect to the same products. The tax credit does not depend upon whether a person that sells in the City extracts or manufactures in the City or in another jurisdiction to which it has paid an eligible gross receipts tax. The tax credit does not depend on whether a person that manufactures in the City extracts in the city or in another jurisdiction to which it has paid an eligible gross receipts tax. The credit is available to any person that pays an eligible gross receipts tax on the applicable activities, regardless of where it conducts business. The result of this section is that a city in which selling takes place gives up the tax to the manufacturing jurisdiction and the manufacturing jurisdiction gives up the tax to the extracting jurisdiction, whether those jurisdictions are inside or outside the State of Washington. 20