RCW 82.12.817
Exemptions—Fuel cell electric vehicles. (Expires June 30, 2029.)
(1) Subject to the limitations in this subsection and RCW 82.08.993(1)(c), beginning July 1, 2022, with sales made or lease agreements signed on or after this date until the expiration of this section, 50 percent of the tax levied by RCW 82.12.020 does not apply to sales or leases of new electric passenger cars, light duty trucks, and medium duty passenger vehicles, that are powered by a fuel cell.
(2)(a) Subject to the limitations in this subsection (2), beginning July 1, 2022, with sales made or lease agreements signed on or after this date until the expiration of this section, the entire tax levied by RCW 82.12.020 does not apply to the sale or lease of used electric passenger cars, light duty trucks, and medium duty passenger vehicles, that are powered by a fuel cell.
(b) The per vehicle exemption must be based on the sales price for purchased vehicles and fair market value at the inception of the lease for leased vehicles. However, the maximum value amount eligible for the exemption under (a) of this subsection is the lesser of either $16,000 or the fair market value of the vehicle.
(c) A person may not claim the exemption under this subsection (2) if the person claims the exemption under RCW 82.08.9999 or 82.12.9999.
(3) The buyer must keep records necessary for the department to verify eligibility under this section. The buyer claiming the exemption must also submit itemized information to the department for all vehicles for which an exemption is claimed that must include the following: Vehicle make; vehicle model; model year; whether the vehicle has been sold or leased; date of sale or start date of lease; length of lease; sales price for purchased vehicles and fair market value at the inception of the lease for leased vehicles; and the total amount qualifying for the incentive claimed for each vehicle, in addition to the future monthly amount to be claimed for each leased vehicle. This information must be provided in a form and manner prescribed by the department.
(4)(a) Sales of vehicles delivered to the buyer after the expiration of this section, or leased vehicles for which the lease agreement was signed after the expiration of this section, do not qualify for the exemptions under this section.
(b) All leased vehicles that qualified for the exemption under this section before the expiration of this section must continue to receive the exemption on any lease payments due through the remainder of the lease.
(5) The definitions in RCW 82.08.993 apply to this section.
(6) This section expires June 30, 2029.
[ 2022 c 182 § 304; 2021 c 171 § 3.]
NOTES:
Intent—Effective date—2022 c 182: See notes following RCW 70A.65.240.
Tax preference performance statement—Effective date—2021 c 171: See notes following RCW 82.08.993.
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.