RCW 82.16.090
Light or power and gas distribution businesses—Information required on customer billings.
(1) Any customer billing issued by a light or power business or gas distribution business that serves a total of more than twenty thousand customers and operates within the state shall include the following information:
(a) The rates and amounts of taxes paid directly by the customer upon products or services rendered by the light and power business or gas distribution business;
(b) The rate, origin and approximate amount of each tax levied upon the revenue of the light and power business or gas distribution business and added as a component of the amount charged to the customer. Taxes based upon revenue of the light and power business or gas distribution business to be listed on the customer billing need not include taxes levied by the federal government or taxes levied under chapters 54.28, 80.24, or 82.04 RCW; and
(c) The total amount of kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed for the most recent twelve-month period or other information that provides the customer with information regarding their energy usage over a twelve-month period.
(2) A light or power business or gas distribution business that serves a total of more than twenty thousand customers and operates within the state may include information regarding rates over the most recent twelve-month period on any customer billing.
[ 2019 c 235 § 5; 1988 c 228 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1988 c 228: "This act shall take effect on January 1, 1989." [ 1988 c 228 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 82.16 - Public Utility Tax.
82.16.020 - Public utility tax imposed—Additional tax imposed—Deposit of moneys.
82.16.023 - Tax preferences—Expiration dates.
82.16.030 - Taxable under each schedule if within its purview.
82.16.0421 - Exemptions—Sales to electrolytic processing businesses.
82.16.045 - Exemptions and credits—Pollution control facilities.
82.16.046 - Exemptions—Operation of state route No. 16.
82.16.047 - Exemptions—Ride sharing.
82.16.0491 - Credit—Contributions to an electric utility rural economic development revolving fund.
82.16.0495 - Credit—Electricity sold to a direct service industrial customer.
82.16.0497 - Credit—Light and power business, gas distribution business.
82.16.0498 - Credit—Sales of electricity or gas to an aluminum smelter.
82.16.0499 - Credit—Businesses that hire veterans.
82.16.050 - Deductions in computing tax.
82.16.053 - Deductions in computing tax—Light and power businesses.
82.16.055 - Deductions relating to energy conservation or production from renewable resources.
82.16.060 - May be taxed under other chapters.
82.16.100 - Solid waste business not subject to chapter.
82.16.110 - Renewable energy system cost recovery—Definitions.
82.16.130 - Renewable energy system cost recovery—Light/power business tax credit.
82.16.150 - Light and power business—Liability.
82.16.160 - Definitions—Renewable energy tax incentives.
82.16.165 - Annual production incentive certification.
82.16.175 - Shared commercial solar projects—Organization and administration.
82.16.180 - Solar modules—Sale and installation tax incentives.
82.16.182 - Community solar projects—Definitions.
82.16.183 - Community solar projects.
82.16.184 - Credit—Community solar projects.
82.16.185 - Credit—State energy performance standard—Early adoption incentive program.
82.16.305 - Exemptions—Joint municipal utility services authorities.
82.16.310 - Exemptions—Sales by a gas distribution business.
82.16.315 - Exemptions—Sales of electricity or gas to silicon smelters.
82.16.320 - Exemptions—Qualifying grants—National emergency or state of emergency.