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There shall be excluded from the total gross income upon which the utility tax is computed the following:

A. Revenues derived from transactions in interstate or foreign commerce, or from business done for the United States and the state of Washington, or their officers or agents or any amounts paid by the taxpayer to the United States and the state, the city or to any political subdivision of the state, as excise taxes levied or imposed upon the sale or distribution of property or services, or as a utility tax.

B. That portion of gross income derived from charges to another telecommunications company, as defined in RCW 80.40.010, for connecting fees, switching charges, or carrier access charges relating to intrastate toll telephone services, or for access to, or charges for, interstate service.

C. Charges incurred by a taxpayer engaging in a telephone business and paid to a telecommunications company, as defined in RCW 80.40.010, for telephone service that the taxpayer purchases for the purpose of resale.

D. Adjustments made to a billing or to a customer account or a telecommunications company accrual account in order to reverse a billing or a charge that has been made as a result of third party fraud or other crime and was not properly a debt of a customer.

E. Cash discounts and credit losses actually sustained by a taxpayer on an accrual basis. (Ord. 2645 § 1, 2006)