RCW 82.12.0282
Exemptions—Use of vans as ride-sharing vehicles.
(1) The tax imposed by this chapter does not apply with respect to the use of passenger motor vehicles used primarily for ride sharing or ride sharing for persons with special transportation needs, as defined in RCW 46.74.010, if the vehicles are used as ride-sharing vehicles for thirty-six consecutive months beginning with the date of first use.
(2)(a) To qualify for the tax exemption, those passenger motor vehicles with three or more passengers, including the driver, used for ride sharing, must be operated either within the state's eight largest counties that are required to develop commute trip reduction plans as directed by chapter 70A.15 RCW, in other counties, or cities and towns within those counties, that elect to adopt and implement a commute trip reduction plan, or in other counties where the vehicle is registered with or operated by a public transportation agency. Additionally at least one of the following conditions must apply: (i) The vehicle must be operated by a public transportation agency for the benefit of the general public; or (ii) the vehicle must be used by a major employer, as defined in RCW 70A.15.4010 as an element of its commute trip reduction program for their employees; or (iii) the vehicle must be owned and operated by individual employees and must be registered either with the employer as part of its commute trip reduction program or with a public transportation agency. Individual employee owned and operated motor vehicles will require certification that the vehicle is registered with a major employer or a public transportation agency. Major employers who own and operate motor vehicles for their employees must certify that the ride-sharing arrangement conforms to a carpool/vanpool element contained within their commute trip reduction program.
(b) Notwithstanding the ridership requirements under (a) of this subsection (2), unless the vehicle is operated by a public transportation agency, the vehicle must be used for ride sharing in the transport of at least five passengers.
[ 2021 c 135 § 7; 2020 c 20 § 1477; 2014 c 97 § 504; 2001 c 320 § 5; 1999 c 358 § 11; 1996 c 88 § 4; 1993 c 488 § 4; 1980 c 166 § 2.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2021 c 135: See note following RCW 46.18.285.
Effective date—2001 c 320: See note following RCW 11.02.005.
Effective date—1999 c 358 §§ 1 and 3-21: See note following RCW 82.04.3651.
Construction—1996 c 88: "This act shall not be construed as affecting any existing right acquired or liability or obligation incurred under the sections amended or repealed in this act or under any rule or order adopted under those sections, nor as affecting any proceeding instituted under those sections." [ 1996 c 88 § 5.]
Severability—1996 c 88: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1996 c 88 § 6.]
Effective date—1996 c 88: "This act shall take effect July 1, 1996." [ 1996 c 88 § 7.]
Finding—Annual recertification rule—Report—1993 c 488: See notes following RCW 82.08.0287.
Severability—1980 c 166: See note following RCW 82.08.0287.
Ride-sharing vehicles—Special plates: RCW 46.18.285.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
82.12.0201 - Dedication of taxes—Comprehensive performance audits.
82.12.0203 - Refinery fuel gas—Value—Tax rate—Local use tax exemption.
82.12.0205 - Exemptions—Waste vegetable oil.
82.12.0207 - Exemptions—Adapted housing—Disabled veterans—Construction.
82.12.0208 - Exemptions—Digital codes.
82.12.022 - Natural or manufactured gas—Use tax imposed—Exemption.
82.12.023 - Natural or manufactured gas, exempt from use tax imposed by RCW 82.12.020.
82.12.024 - Deferral of use tax on certain users of natural or manufactured gas.
82.12.02525 - Exemptions—Sale of copied public records by state and local agencies.
82.12.0253 - Exemptions—Use of tangible personal property taxable under chapter 82.16 RCW.
82.12.0255 - Exemptions—Nontaxable tangible personal property, warranties, and digital products.
82.12.0256 - Exemptions—Use of motor vehicle and special fuel—Conditions.
82.12.025651 - Exemptions—Use of machinery and equipment by public research institutions.
82.12.025661 - Exemptions—Aircraft maintenance repair—Building construction.
82.12.0261 - Exemptions—Use of livestock.
82.12.0262 - Exemptions—Use of poultry for producing poultry and poultry products for sale.
82.12.0263 - Exemptions—Use of fuel by extractor or manufacturer thereof.
82.12.0264 - Exemptions—Use of dual-controlled motor vehicles by school for driver training.
82.12.0267 - Exemptions—Use of semen in artificial insemination of livestock.
82.12.02685 - Exemptions—Use of tangible personal property related to farmworker housing.
82.12.0271 - Exemptions—Use of wearing apparel only as a sample for display for sale.
82.12.0272 - Exemptions—Use of personal property in single trade shows.
82.12.0273 - Exemptions—Use of pollen.
82.12.02745 - Exemptions—Use by free hospitals of certain items.
82.12.0275 - Exemptions—Use of certain drugs or family planning devices.
82.12.0276 - Exemptions—Use of returnable containers for beverages and foods.
82.12.0277 - Exemptions—Certain medical items.
82.12.0282 - Exemptions—Use of vans as ride-sharing vehicles.
82.12.0283 - Exemptions—Use of certain irrigation equipment.
82.12.0293 - Exemptions—Use of food and food ingredients.
82.12.0294 - Exemptions—Use of feed for cultivating or raising fish for sale.
82.12.0296 - Exemptions—Use of feed consumed by livestock at a public livestock market.
82.12.0297 - Exemptions—Use of food purchased under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
82.12.031 - Exemptions—Use by artistic or cultural organizations of certain objects.
82.12.0311 - Exemptions—Use of materials and supplies in packing horticultural products.
82.12.0315 - Exemptions—Rental or sales related to motion picture or video productions—Exceptions.
82.12.0316 - Exemptions—Sales of cigarettes by Indian retailers.
82.12.0318 - Exemptions—Use of vapor products sold by Indian retailers.
82.12.032 - Exemption—Use of used park model trailers.
82.12.033 - Exemption—Use of certain used mobile homes.
82.12.034 - Exemption—Use of used floating homes.
82.12.0345 - Exemptions—Use of newspapers.
82.12.0347 - Exemptions—Use of academic transcripts.
82.12.036 - Exemptions and credits—Pollution control facilities.
82.12.037 - Credits and refunds—Bad debts.
82.12.040 - Retailers to collect tax—Penalty.
82.12.045 - Collection of tax on vehicles by county auditor or director of licensing—Remittance.
82.12.060 - Installment sales or leases.
82.12.070 - Cash receipts taxpayers—Bad debts.
82.12.195 - Bundled transactions—Tax imposed.
82.12.207 - Investment data for investment firms.
82.12.215 - Exemptions—Large private airplanes.
82.12.225 - Exemptions—Nonprofit fund-raising activities.
82.12.700 - Exemptions—Vessels sold to nonresidents.
82.12.798 - Exemptions—Use of feminine hygiene products.
82.12.799 - Exemptions—Vessels exempt from registration.
82.12.800 - Exemptions—Uses of vessel, vessel's trailer by manufacturer.
82.12.801 - Exemptions—Uses of vessel, vessel's trailer by dealer.
82.12.803 - Exemptions—Nebulizers.
82.12.804 - Exemptions—Ostomic items.
82.12.805 - Exemptions—Personal property used at an aluminum smelter.
82.12.806 - Exemptions—Use of computer equipment parts and services by printer or publisher.
82.12.807 - Exemptions—Direct mail delivery charges.
82.12.816 - Exemptions—Electric vehicle batteries and fuel cells—Labor and services—Infrastructure.
82.12.817 - Exemptions—Fuel cell electric vehicles.
82.12.820 - Exemptions—Warehouse and grain elevators and distribution centers.
82.12.832 - Exemptions—Use of gun safes.
82.12.834 - Exemptions—Sales/leasebacks by regional transit authorities.
82.12.845 - Use of motorcycles loaned to department of licensing.
82.12.850 - Exemptions—Conifer seed.
82.12.855 - Exemptions—Replacement parts for qualifying farm machinery and equipment.
82.12.860 - Exemptions—Property and services acquired from a federal credit union.
82.12.865 - Exemptions—Diesel, biodiesel, and aircraft fuel for farm fuel users.
82.12.875 - Automotive adaptive equipment.
82.12.880 - Exemptions—Animal pharmaceuticals.
82.12.890 - Exemptions—Livestock nutrient management equipment and facilities.
82.12.900 - Exemptions—Anaerobic digesters.
82.12.910 - Exemptions—Propane or natural gas to heat chicken structures.
82.12.920 - Exemptions—Chicken bedding materials.
82.12.925 - Exemptions—Dietary supplements.
82.12.930 - Exemptions—Watershed protection or flood prevention.
82.12.935 - Exemptions—Disposable devices used to deliver prescription drugs for human use.
82.12.940 - Exemptions—Over-the-counter drugs for human use.
82.12.945 - Exemptions—Kidney dialysis devices.
82.12.950 - Exemptions—Steam, electricity, electrical energy.
82.12.956 - Exemptions—Hog fuel used to generate electricity, steam, heat, or biofuel.
82.12.962 - Exemptions—Use of machinery and equipment in generating electricity.
82.12.965 - Exemptions—Semiconductor materials manufacturing.
82.12.9651 - Exemptions—Gases and chemicals used in production of semiconductor materials.
82.12.970 - Exemptions—Gases and chemicals used to manufacture semiconductor materials.
82.12.975 - Computer parts and software related to the manufacture of commercial airplanes.
82.12.983 - Exemptions—Wax and ceramic materials.
82.12.985 - Exemptions—Insulin.
82.12.995 - Exemptions—Certain limited purpose public corporations, commissions, and authorities.
82.12.996 - Exemptions—Battery-powered electric marine propulsion systems—Qualifying vessels.
82.12.998 - Exemptions—Weatherization of a residence.
82.12.999 - Exemptions—Joint municipal utility services authorities.
82.12.9994 - Exemptions—Bottled water—Prescription use.
82.12.99941 - Exemptions—Bottled water—Primary water source unsafe.
82.12.9995 - Exemptions—Restaurant employee meals.
82.12.9996 - Exemptions—Vessel deconstruction.
82.12.9999 - Exemptions—Vehicles using clean alternative fuels and electric vehicles.