Taxes - Excise: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 167 bills from the 2025-26 session under Taxes - Excise. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1044 · Real estate excise tax, increasing
- HB 1095 · Sales/use, local authorization to support law enforcement retention and criminal justice purposes
- HB 1100 · Sales/use tax, authorizing local taxation
- HB 1109 · Local sales/use, extending duration of port facility district taxes
- HB 1126 · Sales/use, local retail, requiring department of revenue notification
- HB 1214 · Sales/use, expanding age eligibility for working families' tax credit to all 18 and over
- HB 1258 · Telephone use, transferring portion of revenue to 911 system for certain counties
- HB 1320 · B & O tax, raising generally
- HB 1373 · Sales/use, local tax in rural counties for senior citizens programs
- HB 1374 · Sales/use, reducing
- HB 1376 · Capital gains, early payment
- HB 1386 · Sales/use, new chapter for tax on firearms
- HB 1416 · Tobacco products, increasing
- HB 1417 · Cigarettes, adding embedded carbon tax
- HB 1436 · Sales/use, new local tax for criminal justice purposes
- HB 1445 · Capital gains, increasing tax to fund Washington health trust
- HB 1468 · Opportunity expansion account, repealing as well as 11 other accounts
- HB 1480 · Sales/use, allowing on real estate sales
- HB 1506 · B & O, status of acquired credit unions
- HB 1517 · Wireless device tax, new chapter implementing
- HB 1532 · Sales/use, local, authorizing for certain cities
- HB 1534 · Tobacco products, exempting alternative nicotine products and modifying actions
- HB 1558 · B & O, modifying for certain radio and television revenues
- HB 1560 · Excessive compensation, new chapter
- HB 1581 · 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax, increasing
- HB 1598 · Public utility, community solar project incentive payments
- HB 1614 · Capital gains, modifying including penalties and delinquencies
- HB 1641 · Real estate sales, defining timberland
- HB 1650 · Real estate sales, local, airports as allowable capital projects
- HB 1665 · Capital gains, repealing
- HB 1694 · Real estate sales, local, allowing use for affordable housing and certain facilities for homeless persons
- HB 1702 · Public utilities, allowing county tax
- HB 1703 · Sales/use, revenues from certain equine sources transferred to equine industry federal regulatory account
- HB 1730 · Aircraft fuel, directing revenue to aeronautics account
- HB 1763 · Lodging sales, new chapter
- HB 1769 · B & O. sale of abandoned vehicles by tow truck operators
- HB 1778 · Sales/use, transferring portion of revenue to local sales and use tax account
- HB 1785 · B & O, new tax on excessive executive compensation
- HB 1805 · Sales/use, local, allowing to provide various services for children and families
- HB 1806 · Enhanced food fish, portion of revenue directed to city fish was landed in
- HB 1836 · B & O, increasing workforce education investment surcharge on select advanced computing businesses
- HB 1839 · B & O, increasing workforce education investment surcharge on select advanced computing businesses
- HB 1867 · Real estate sales, allowing cities to impose tax for affordable housing purposes
- HB 1882 · Lodging, additional excise tax for temporary period
- HB 1887 · Severance tax, creating for data brokers
- HB 1896 · Sales/use, local, authorizing for additional law enforcement officers
- HB 1907 · B & O, modifying tax on self-storage facilities as retail transaction
- HB 1960 · Local renewable energy excise tax authorized
- HB 1981 · Real estate sales, local, on sale of renewable energy facilities
- HB 1983 · Real estate sales, redefining timberland
- HB 1986 · Sales/use, cars for rental purposes
- HB 1994 · New chapter, taxing certain renewable energy facilities via ballot measure
- HB 1996 · Sales/use tax, local, funding behavioral health diversion
- HB 2009 · Real estate sales, clarifying for sales of controlling interest
- HB 2015 · Sales/use tax, local, for law enforcement purposes
- HB 2018 · Solid waste collection tax, imposing
- HB 2020 · B & O, imposing on credit card/payment card processors
- HB 2023 · B & O, restriction taxation of investment income and establishing work group
- HB 2027 · Real estate sales, modifying and funding various housing accounts
- HB 2033 · Tobacco products, defining nicotine-containing products as
- HB 2038 · B & O, social media platforms
- HB 2045 · B & O tax, increasing for certain large or financial institutions
- HB 2068 · Tobacco/vapor, repealing certain taxes
- HB 2071 · Online dating application tax, new chapter to fund domestic violence services account
- HB 2075 · Cannabis excise tax, increasing on high THC cannabis products
- HB 2077 · ZEV credits, new chapter taxing pooling, banking, and sale of surplus
- HB 2080 · All excise taxes, new chapter prohibiting targeting of specific individuals or entities
- HB 2081 · B & O, modifying including surcharges on certain businesses
- HB 2082 · Capital gains tax, increasing to fund education legacy trust account
- HB 2083 · B & O, extending to certain services and eliminating exclusions
- HB 2084 · B & O, applying/increasing for certain businesses
- HB 2089 · Tax revenue adjustment for wildfire response, forest restoration, and community resilience account
- HB 2097 · B & O, new chapter allowing taxation by counties
- HB 2098 · B & O, removing limit on select advanced computing businesses
- HB 2130 · Sales/use, repealing 2025 Ch. 422 concerning taxes on certain services
- HB 2167 · Sales/use, reducing in the event of an income or earnings tax
- HB 2194 · Sales/use, local, barring certain concurrent city and county taxes
- HB 2258 · Household excise tax, local, for operation, maintenance, and capital needs of animal control and shelter systems
- HB 2291 · Kratom excise tax on retail sales of kratom products
- HB 2292 · Capital gains, additional for internal revenue code section 1202 qualified small business stock
- HB 2334 · Sales/use, rounding cash transactions to eliminate pennies
- HB 2335 · B & O, taxes imposed by 2025 c 420 repealed
- HB 2347 · Noncommercial aircraft, luxury aircraft tax of 2025 c 417 repealed
- HB 2382 · Tobacco, additional cigarette tax imposed
- HB 2404 · Fuel, tax reduced
- HB 2424 · B & O, temporary staffing services excluded from retail sales
- HB 2439 · Tobacco revenue assigned to various accounts
- HB 2442 · Sales/use, local, for services for children and families
- HB 2528 · Real estate sales, local, eliminating proposition requirement
- HB 2559 · Sales/use, levying lodging tax for various housing purposes
- HB 2573 · Former supermarket, full service grocery store, or pharmacy property tax
- HB 2579 · Public media broadcaster and digital equity tax created on certain forms of communication
- HB 2583 · Lodging, modifying population thresholds
- HB 2584 · Sales/use, exemption for qualifying farm equipment
- HB 2592 · Aircraft fuel, directing revenue to aeronautics account
- HB 2609 · Tobacco products, excluding vapor products
- HB 2615 · Voluntary disclosure program and temporary waiving of penalties and interest
- HB 2711 · Additional and cumulative fuel taxes and modifying motor vehicle taxes
- HB 2713 · B & O, surcharge on operating certain private detention facilities
- HB 2722 · Transportation, local, gross weight license fee limit increased
- HB 2726 · Sales/use, local, authorized for park and recreational spending
- HB 2734 · Sugar-sweetened beverage tax imposed to fund certain food security and nutrition programs
- HB 2740 · Hemp-derived cannabinoid product tax
- SB 5026 · Sales/use tax, dedicating some revenues from motor vehicle sales to road/highway/bridge maintenance
- SB 5072 · B & O. sale of abandoned vehicles by tow truck operators
- SB 5073 · Sales/use, dedicating taxes on motor vehicle sales to highway purposes
- SB 5233 · Capital gains, increasing tax to fund Washington health trust
- SB 5285 · Sales/use, new local tax for criminal justice purposes
- SB 5314 · Capital gains, modifying including penalties and delinquencies
- SB 5315 · Sales/use, local retail, requiring department of revenue notification
- SB 5385 · Real estate sales, defining timberland
- SB 5400 · B & O, increasing workforce education investment surcharge on select advanced computing businesses
- SB 5431 · Sales/use, not requiring certain sales to state or collect taxes separately
- SB 5441 · Opportunity expansion account, repealing as well as 11 other accounts
- SB 5457 · B & O, modifying for certain radio and television revenues
- SB 5511 · Sales/use, excluding low-proof beverages from "spirits"
- SB 5515 · Public utility, community solar project incentive payments
- SB 5518 · Sales/use, local, authorizing for certain cities
- SB 5526 · Tobacco products, exempting alternative nicotine products and modifying actions
- SB 5576 · Lodging sales, new chapter
- SB 5604 · Real estate sales. modifying for certain instances of multiple-unit housing
- SB 5610 · Sales/use, revenues from certain equine sources transferred to equine industry federal regulatory account
- SB 5614 · Impact fees, deferred collection and promissory notes
- SB 5638 · Excessive compensation, new chapter
- SB 5650 · Sales/use, local, cannabis products
- SB 5659 · Real estate, local, earnings of investments of balances in the local real estate excise tax account conditional upon compliance
- SB 5687 · Sales/use, increasing portion of revenue for comprehensive performance audits
- SB 5696 · Sales/use, local, authorizing to fund chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs
- SB 5711 · B & O, modifying tax on self-storage facilities as retail transaction
- SB 5739 · Sales/use, local, modifying for public facilities districts
- SB 5748 · Sales/use tax, local, authorizing for anticipated cost of public facilities
- SB 5762 · 988 behavioral health crisis response and suicide prevention line tax, increasing over time
- SB 5766 · B & O, clarifying investment income
- SB 5768 · Sales/use, expanding age eligibility for working families' tax credit to all 18 and over
- SB 5775 · Sales/use, local, special authorization for certain public safety and community purposes
- SB 5777 · B & O, imposing on credit card/payment card processors
- SB 5791 · B & O, increasing on certain services and increasing funding of the workforce education investment account
- SB 5795 · Sales/use, reducing rate
- SB 5799 · B & O, social media platforms
- SB 5801 · Fuel, adjusting for inflation
- SB 5803 · Tobacco/vapor, repealing certain taxes
- SB 5804 · Public utility, light and power business tax
- SB 5811 · ZEV credits, new chapter taxing pooling, banking, and sale of surplus
- SB 5813 · Capital gains tax, increasing to fund education legacy trust account
- SB 5814 · B & O, extending to certain services and eliminating exclusions
- SB 5815 · B & O, increasing and modifying investment deduction
- SB 5819 · Sales/use, paid protesters as temporary staffing services
- SB 5898 · Aircraft fuel, directing revenue to aeronautics account
- SB 5980 · B & O, live presentations excluded from retail sales
- SB 5989 · Aircraft fuel, distribution to aeronautics account and reporting requirements
- SB 6033 · Penalties and interest waivers for certain liabilities
- SB 6114 · Fixtures defined for tax purposes
- SB 6116 · Tobacco, applied to vapor products
- SB 6129 · Tobacco, taxes extended to nicotine products generally
- SB 6149 · Sales/use, local, definition of "rural county" for public facilities
- SB 6196 · Kratom licensing and taxation
- SB 6211 · Real estate sales, local, eliminating proposition requirement
- SB 6228 · B & O, warehousing and reselling of prescription drugs
- SB 6229 · Capital gains, additional for internal revenue code section 1202 qualified small business stock
- SB 6230 · Sales/use, rounding cash transactions to eliminate pennies
- SB 6244 · Hazardous substances, exemption for agricultural crop protection product extended
- SB 6262 · Transportation, local, gross weight license fee limit increased
- SB 6280 · Tobacco, taxing nicotine pouches
- SB 6294 · Sales/use, local, for services for children and families
- SB 6328 · Cannabis, tax expanded
- SB 6346 · B & O, certain services no longer taxable
- SB 6348 · Voluntary disclosure program and temporary waiving of penalties and interest
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.