Tacoma
City of Tacoma Finance Department, Tax & License Division
In short
City of Tacoma Finance Department, Tax & License Division issues 3 permits we publish for Tacoma, last verified 2026-09-05. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Business & Occupation (B&O) Taxonly if it applies to you | City of Tacoma Finance Department, Tax & License Division | No tax owed if companywide gross income is under $250,000/year (a separate $20,000 in-Tacoma-activity threshold applies to outside businesses). A partial credit applies from $250,001 to $300,000, sliding from 90% down to 25%. Rates by classification: Manufacturing 0.11%, Wholesale 0.102%, Retailing (including construction contractors) 0.153%, Service & Other 0.40%. | annual return due January 31; quarterly filers due April 30, July 31, October 31, January 31 | 2026-09-05 |
| City Business License | City of Tacoma Finance Department, Tax & License Division | Tiered by companywide gross income: $37 under $12,000; $190 for $12,000–$250,000; $435 for $250,001–$1,000,000; $1,500 for $1,000,000–$5,000,000; $2,000 above $5,000,000. | annual | 2026-09-05 |
| Garage (Auto Repair) License | City of Tacoma Finance Department, Tax & License Division | $170 a year | annual | 2026-09-05 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
City Business & Occupation (B&O) Tax
A Jobs Tax Credit of up to $1,500/year per new full-time position is available for up to 5 years per hire.
City Business License
A separate, older undated PDF shows lower, likely-superseded figures ($25/$110/$250); the current dated tacoma.gov page is used here instead. Separate from the Washington state Business License Service fee already covered at the state layer.
Garage (Auto Repair) License
In addition to the standard city business license. TMC § 6B.110.020(6) defines 'repair garage' broadly as any facility or place of business at which the trade of repairing motor vehicles, trailers or marine craft is carried on — a definition that plainly reaches auto body and collision-repair work without naming it separately; a full-text search of the entire code returns no results for 'auto body' and no vehicle-repair-related results for 'collision', confirming no separate classification exists for that work. A vehicle-parts store or storage/parking-lot garage is $100/year instead, and a vehicle-part recycling facility is $150/year.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Tacoma
- Phone
- (253) 591-5252
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- City of Tacoma — Business License FeesCity of Tacoma, Finance Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- City of Tacoma — Tax & License Workshop: Business & Occupation TaxCity of Tacoma, Finance Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-05
- Tacoma Municipal Code via General Code's eCode360 — Chapter 6B.110 (Garages, Fuel Stations, and Marine Repair Facilities), § 6B.110.020(6) defining 'repair garage' broadly as any facility repairing motor vehicles, trailers or marine craft; a full-text search of the whole code returns no results for 'auto body' and no vehicle-repair-related results for 'collision'City of Tacoma, codified via General Code (eCode360) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
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