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A. Service Address. Payments by a customer for the telephone service from telephones without a fixed location shall be allocated among taxing jurisdictions to the location of the customer’s principal service address during the period for which the tax applies.

B. Presumption. There is a presumption that the service address a customer supplies to the taxpayer (cellular telephone company) is current and accurate, unless the taxpayer has actual knowledge to the contrary.

C. Roaming Phones. When the service is provided while a subscriber is roaming outside the subscriber’s normal cellular network area, the gross income shall be assigned consistent with the taxpayer’s accounting system to the location of the originating cell site of the call, or to the location of the main cellular switching office that switched the call.

D. Dispute Resolution. If there is a dispute among one or more other cities and/or the taxpayer, as to the service address of a customer who is receiving cellular telephone services, and the dispute is not resolved by negotiation among the parties, then the dispute shall be resolved by the city and the other city or cities by submitting the issue for settlement to the Association of Washington Cities (AWC). The taxpayer shall have no further liability with respect to additional taxes on the disputed revenues, but will change his or her billing records for future revenues to comport with the settlement facilitated by AWC. (Ord. 811 § 3, 1996).