WAA Legislative Alert 2010 Sales Tax on Services

WAA ACTION ALERT!!!

Some Lawmakers Will Be Proposing To Add WA State Sales Tax
 To Services – Including Accounting And Tax Preparation Services
 
By Acting Now, You Can Stop This From Happening!

YES, a number of state lawmakers are talking about extending the state’s sales taxes many services that are not currently subject to sales tax.  This would include adding sales tax to accounting and tax preparation services as a way to partially address the state’s $3+ billion budget problem.  This will increase your tax and accounting service fees by up to 9% and significantly increase your state tax collecting and reporting obligations.
 
YOU can help stop this from happening by doing TWO VERY IMPORTANT things:

1. You, everyone in your office, your family members, their family members, and ask everyone you know, to write a letter to their four key state legislators expressing their opposition to this proposal to extending the state's sales taxes to services.  Click on the following link for a sample letter:  2010SalesTaxLetter1
   
   
2. Send a letter to your clients ASAP urging them to write to their four key state legislators and expressing their opposition to extending the state's sales taxes to services.  There are two sample letters for you to choose from:

• This letter tells them how to identify their one state Senator and two state Representatives so they can properly address their letter, and how to get a sample letter to send to them.  Click on the following link for letter one: 2010SalesTaxLetter2       
  
  
• This letter includes a sample letter and the addresses of their four key lawmakers that you determine from your client’s address.  Click on the following link for letter one:  2010SalesTaxLetter3
  
  

Need to find your Legislators?
Finding and Contracting Your Legislators

You can identify your legislators – one state Senator and two state Representatives – via the Internet by clicking on the following link or going to the following web site, putting in your address (you do not need the extra 4 zip code numbers to make this work), and clicking on “Find My District”:
 
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
 
If you do not have success using this Internet site to find your legislators, you can call 1-800-562-6000 between 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday (except holidays) and, when the Legislature is in session, from 8am to 8pm and from 9AM to 1PM on Saturday.  The legislative attendant can help you identify your legislators. 

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Jerry Miller, WAA Legislative Chair, at 509.927.1040.