File #: 2005-0426    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 10/24/2005 In control: Operating Budget Committee
On agenda: 1/23/2006 Final action: 2/5/2007
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE increasing the social card game tax from 11 percent to 14 percent of annual gross receipts and amending Ordinance 6255, section 1, and K.C.C. 12.54.100.
Sponsors: Larry Gossett
Indexes: Budget, Fees, Gambling, Taxes
Code sections: 12.54.100 -
Attachments: 1. 2005-0426 - Hearing Notice.doc, 2. 2005-0426 Fiscal Note.xls, 3. 2005-0426 Staff Report Cardroom Tax Increase.doc, 4. 2005-0426 Transmittal Letter.doc
Staff: St. John, Polly
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AN ORDINANCE increasing the social card game tax from 11 percent to 14 percent of annual gross receipts and amending Ordinance 6255, section 1, and K.C.C. 12.54.100.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
      SECTION 1. Ordinance 6255, section 1, and K.C.C. 12.54.100 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
      Social card game room tax.  There is levied upon all persons, associations, and organizations who have been duly licensed to operate social card games under the provision of RCW 9.46.030(1) and (4), a tax equal to ((eleven)) fourteen percent of the annual gross receipts exceeding ten thousand dollars:
PROVIDED THAT no tax shall be imposed when such activities are conducted by any bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization as defined in RCW 9.46.020(3) which organization has no paid operating or management personnel and has gross income from social card games not exceeding twelve hundred and fifty dollars per quarter; PROVIDED FURTHER THAT, the executive is authorized to implement appropriate fiscal reporting requirements to insure the effective administration of license holders exempt from the payment of taxes.
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publish: Seattle Times, October 26, 2005