Exempting prepared food from sales tax.

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H-0300.1

HOUSE BILL 1340

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Representatives Manjarrez, Connors, Jacobsen, Couture, Klicker, Shavers, Marshall, Barkis, Barnard, and Schmidt

Read first time 01/16/25. Referred to Committee on Finance.

AN ACT Relating to exempting prepared food from sales tax; amending RCW 82.08.0293 ; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 82.08.0293 and 2022 c 16 s 152 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The tax levied by RCW 82.08.020 does not apply to sales of food and food ingredients. "Food and food ingredients" means substances, whether in liquid, concentrated, solid, frozen, dried, or dehydrated form, that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value. "Food and food ingredients" includes prepared food. "Food and food ingredients" does not include:

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PASSAGE PROBABILITY

17.7% Unlikely

Why this number

Stage base In Committee — base rate 41%, measured from WA's completed sessions
Momentum -1 45/100 from the pace of recorded action
Time since last action -22 273 days quiet

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