EMERGENCY RULES
Purpose: In order to take certain tax exemptions, credits, and rates ("tax adjustments"), taxpayers must file an annual report with the Department of Revenue detailing employment, wages, and employer-provided health and retirement benefits per job at the manufacturing site. The purpose of WAC 458-20-267 Annual reports for certain tax adjustments, is to explain the reporting requirements for tax adjustments provided to the aerospace manufacturing, aluminum manufacturing, and electrolytic processing industries. This rule explains who is required to file annual reports, how to file reports and what information must be included in the reports.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 82.32.300 and 82.01.060(2).
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest.
Reasons for this Finding: The first annual report is due on March 31, 2005. The rule is necessary to provide guidance to taxpayers on who is required to file the annual reports, how the file them, and what information to be included in them. The department is unable to adopt a permanent rule within a reasonable time before March 31, 2005, making an emergency rule necessary.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Janis P. Bianchi, Manager
Interpretations and
Technical Advice Unit
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