Business calculator
Welcome
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about how Carbon Washington's proposal would impact your business
We'll ask you a few questions about your business expenses in order to best calculate how your household would be affected. We encourage you to skip around and to change your estimates to see how that affects the result.
For the best estimate, please answer all questions. The calculator will by default assume a value of 0 for all blank fields, which will affect the accuracy your results.
Curious about how we calculated a value? Check out the 
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Sales Tax
Sales Tax Rate
Manufacturing B&O Taxes
If your business is not a manufacturer, please skip to Gasoline and Diesel Usage
The CarbonWA proposal effectively eliminates B&O taxes on manufacturing activities covered by RCW 82.04.240 (general manufacturing), RCW 82.04.2404 (semiconductors), and RCW 82.04.260 (1), (2), (4), (11), or (12)(b) (food products, timber and wood products, and airplanes). Because of the Multiple Activities Tax Credit, manufacturing B&O taxes may qualify as credits against other B&O taxes, or other B&O taxes may qualify as credits against your manufacturing B&O taxes.
For many manufacturers, the amount you would save is likely to be the state manufacturing B&O taxes you paid on goods sold outside the state; goods sold inside the state receive the Multiple Activities Tax Credit.
Gasoline and Diesel Usage
How much gasoline does your business use? Amounts for diesel vehicle, boat, and small plane fuel/mileage should also be included in the inputs for this section. Please choose one of these three calculation options:
Air Travel
How much air travel does your business do in a year? Please choose one of these calculation options:
Remember to add up the miles for each person. Example: Three employees from a single business fly from Seattle to Los Angeles, which is 1000 miles. 3 people x 1000 miles = 3000 miles.
First class or business class is taken care of automatically because they're more expensive.
Facility Energy Usage
How much energy does your business use? Please complete the steps below:
Step 1
Step 2
Choose the electric utility for your business (if the correct utility is not listed, first check that the zipcode is correct, and then contact us at carbon@cs.washington.edu):Step 3
Do you know your business's energy usage in units of therms, kWh, etc. (from utility bills or another source)?
Step 4
Enter your business's energy use per year:therms of natural gas
gallons of fuel oil
kWh of electricity
Step 4
We will attempt to help you estimate your business's energy usage by comparing it to an average house in Washington State. Note that this is just a ballpark estimate and may only be appropriate for certain kinds of businesses.How is your business heated?
Natural gas
Fuel oil
Electricity
Wood or wood pellets
Other/don't know (we will assume you use natural gas.)
Step 5
How much purchased energy do you think your business uses compared to an average house in Washington (2000 sq ft, 3 bedrooms, etc.)? Enter this as a percentage. For example, if your business uses half the energy of an average home, enter "50". If your business uses twice the energy of an average home, enter "200":%
Summary
We estimate that your business's additional tax savings as a result of implementing I-732 would total $0 per year.
We estimate that your business's additional tax payments as a result of implementing I-732 would total $0 per year.
In total we estimate your business would an additional $0 per year as a result of implementing I-732.
Calculations
Interested in how we reached that conclusion? Check out the sections below.
Sales Tax Savings
With a 1 percentage point reduction in sales tax, we estimate that your business would save $0 per year.
B&O Taxes
With the elimination of state manufacturing B&O taxes, we estimate that your business would save $0 per year.
Gasoline and Diesel Usage
We estimate that your business would spend $0 more per year due to carbon taxes on gasoline.
Air Travel
We estimate that your business would spend $0 more per year due to carbon taxes on jet fuel.
Facility Energy Usage
We estimate that your business would spend this much more due to carbon taxes on fossil fuel sources of energy:
Thank you! And feel free to go back and change any information to see how it affects the results. If you have any feedback about this website, please contact us at carbon@cs.washington.edu.