Changes made recently by the\nWashington State Legislature require cities to adopt new business license regulation\nlanguage and for the new language to take effect January 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the fall of this year, the\nYakima City Council followed the new state law and approved revisions to the\nCity’s business license regulations. As\na result, people renewing their existing business licenses now for next year\nare being affected by the revisions. \nAdditionally, a likely consequence of the state-mandated changes will be\nthat some people will now need to get a business license even though they may\nnot have had to before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 2017 state legislative\nsession, lawmakers passed a bill changing the definition of “engaging in\nbusiness” and requiring cities to establish a minimum annual income threshold\nfor businesses doing business in the city but located outside of the city that\nare exempt from needing a business license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In October, the Yakima City\nCouncil approved the language changes and set a minimum annual income threshold\nof $12,000, below which both businesses located within the City and businesses\nwhich do business within the city but are located elsewhere are exempt from\nneeding to pay the business license fee, but still need a City-issued license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The state mandated cities expand\nthe definition of ‘engaging in business’ which now includes, as an example, renting\nor leasing office buildings, apartments, duplexes, houses\u2026”, said\nCommunications & Public Affairs Director Randy Beehler. “So, someone who rents or leases\nproperty and makes more than $12,000 a year from rent or lease income now needs\nto get a business license while they may never have had to before. That’s probably going to result in some\nconfusion,” said Beehler. “But\nthe City is making every effort to ensure that the transition to the new\nregulations goes as smoothly as possible.”\n\nThe new business\nlicense language can be seen by clicking on the following link and navigating\nto Title 5 and then to Chapter 5.52.020 – https:\/\/www.codepublishing.com\/WA\/Yakima\/<\/a>. Questions about the business license\nregulation changes can be answered by calling the City’s Code Administration\noffice at 575-6126 or by sending an e-mail to codes@yakimawa.gov.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Changes made recently by the Washington State Legislature require cities to adopt new business license regulation language and for the new language to take effect January 2019. In the fall of this year, the Yakima City Council followed the new state law and approved revisions to the City’s business license regulations. As a result, people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6752,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}