Latest available data from the U.S. Small Business Administration says there were 546,885 small businesses in our state in 2010. That’s 98.1 percent of all businesses in Washington! Hence, the reason you often hear people referring to small business as the backbone of our economy.
So when the Department of Revenue came up with a mobile app for both iPhone and Android to help all these businesses easily file and pay taxes accurately, the Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA) took notice and gave our state its 2013 Award for Outstanding Compliance Program.
The award recognizes the department’s mobile device application that helps taxpayers, especially small businesses, determine the right sales tax rates to charge customers.
FTA judges said our state was the first to identify a compelling taxpayer need and meet it with a mobile app.
Read the Department of Revenue’s news release.