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.
