Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 82 Excise Taxes - Section 82.38.050 Tax liability on leased motor vehicles

§ 82.38.050. Tax liability on leased motor vehicles

A lessor who is engaged regularly in the business of leasing or renting for compensation motor vehicles and equipment he owns without drivers to carriers or other lessees for interstate operation, may be deemed to be the special fuel user when he supplies or pays for the special fuel consumed in such vehicles, and such lessor may be issued an international fuel tax agreement license when application and bond have been properly filed with and approved by the department for such license. Any lessee may exclude motor vehicles of which he or she is the lessee from reports and liabilities pursuant to this chapter, but only if the motor vehicles in question have been leased from a lessor holding a valid international fuel tax agreement license.

When the license has been secured, such lessor shall make and assign to each motor vehicle leased for interstate operation a photocopy of such license to be carried in the cab compartment of the motor vehicle and on which shall be typed or printed on the back the unit or motor number of the motor vehicle to which it is assigned and the name of the lessee. Such lessor shall be responsible for the proper use of such photocopy of the license issued and its return to the lessor with the motor vehicle to which it is assigned.

The lessor shall be responsible for fuel tax licensing and reporting, as required by this chapter, on the operation of all motor vehicles leased to others for less than thirty days.

[2007 c 515 § 24; 1990 c 250 § 82; 1983 c 242 § 1; 1971 ex.s. c 175 § 6.]

Notes:
     Severability -- Effective date -- 2007 c 515: See notes following RCW 82.36.010.

     Severability -- 1990 c 250: See note following RCW 46.16.301.

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