CPA services for Renton and Kent, WA — two different city B&O systems, one CPA who knows both.

Renton charges its own city B&O tax at 0.070% for retailing and 0.121% for other classifications (extracting, manufacturing, wholesaling, printing/publishing, retail services, and service & other). Renton exempts businesses with $500,000 or less in annual citywide gross receipts from owing tax — a threshold the city itself chose to set well above the state's own $20,000/year minimum floor — though a return declaring no tax due is still required below that line.

Kent's system is more layered: a gross receipts B&O tax applies once citywide gross income exceeds $250,000 per year, with rates that vary by classification, plus a separate Square Footage Tax that applies to businesses with a physical location inside city limits above a minimum floor-space threshold — Kent requires whichever of the two calculations produces the greater amount. We were not able to confirm Kent's current specific classification percentages and square-footage dollar rates from a source we're fully confident in during this research, so rather than publish a number that could be stale, we'll say this plainly: confirm your current Kent rate and threshold with the city's Tax Division before assuming last year's figures still apply, especially given a documented 2025 rate change to the Manufacturing classification.

State B&O still applies under both city systems: 0.471% for retailing, 0.484% for wholesaling and manufacturing, and the tiered Service & Other rate effective October 1, 2025 — 1.5% under $1 million, 1.75% up to $5 million, 2.1% above that. If your business operates in both Renton and Kent, you may owe three separate B&O-family filings in a given quarter — state, Renton, and Kent — which is exactly the kind of multi-jurisdiction filing that gets missed without someone tracking all three.