Learn about transportation benefit districts and find out which districts charge an additional vehicle registration fee.
State law allows city or county governments to create transportation benefit districts and impose an additional vehicle registration fee to fund local transportation projects.
Districts that charge transportation benefit fees
If you live in any of the following locations, you must pay an additional transportation benefit district fee when you renew your vehicle tabs. You may see this fee listed as "TBD" during renewal.
| Transportation benefit district | Fee | Effective date (Tabs expiring on or after…) |
Location code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge Island 206-780-8624 |
$40 | August 1, 2013 | 18-04 |
| Black Diamond 360-866-5713 |
$20 | April 1, 2016 | 17-05 |
| Bremerton 360-473-5920 |
$20 | July 1, 2012 | 18-01 |
| Bridgeport 509-686-4041 ext. 12 |
$20 | August 1, 2017 | 09-01 |
| Buckley 360-761-7801 |
$20 | February 1, 2014 | 27-02 |
| Burien 206-241-4647 |
$20 | February 1, 2011 | 17-34 |
| Carbonado 360-829-0125 |
$20 | November 1, 2013 | 27-03 |
| Covington 253-480-2400 |
$20 | June 1, 2016 | 17-12 |
| Des Moines 206-870-7586 |
$40 | September 1, 2009 | 17-09 |
| DuPont 253-964-8121 |
$20 | September 1, 2013 | 27-04 |
| Eatonville 360-832-3361 |
$20 | March 1, 2013 | 27-05 |
| Edmonds 425-771-0260 |
$40 | March 31, 2024 | 31-04 |
| Electric City 509-633-1510 |
$20 | May 1, 2013 | 13-02 |
| Elmer City 509-633-2872 |
$20 | August 1, 2016 | 24-04 |
| Enumclaw 360-825-3593 |
$20 | September 1, 2014 | 17-11 |
| Everett 425-257-7767 |
$20 | March 1, 2015 | 31-05 and 42-05 |
| Fife 253-922-2489 |
$20 | January 1, 2017 | 27-06 |
| Grandview 509-882-9200 |
$20 | February 1, 2012 | 39-01 |
| Granite Falls | $20 | January 1, 2016 | 31-07 |
| Kelso 360-423-0900 |
$20 | July 1, 2013 | 08-03 |
| Kenmore 425-398-8900 |
$20 | June 1, 2013 | 17-38 |
| Kirkland | $20 TBD | January 1, 2024 | 17-16 |
| Kittitas 509-968-0220 |
$20 | December 1, 2012 | 19-03 |
| Lake Forest Park 206-368-5440 |
$50 | September 1, 2009 | 17-17 |
| Lakewood | $20 | April 1, 2015 | 27-21 |
| Longview 360-442-5200 |
$40 | August 1, 2017 | 08-04 |
| Lynnwood 425-670-5020 |
$40 | July 1, 2011 | 31-10 |
| Mabton 509-894-4096 |
$20 | December 1, 2011 | 39-04 |
| Maple Valley 425-413-8800 |
$20 | July 1, 2013 | 17-20 |
| Mercer Island 206-275-7789 Email: mitbd@mercergov.org |
$20 | June 1, 2015 | 17-19 |
| Mountlake Terrace 425-744-6272 |
$20 | August 1, 2012 | 31-13 |
| Normandy Park 425-744-6272 |
$20 | March 1, 2016 | 17-21 |
| Olympia 360-570-3727 |
$40 | October 1, 2009 | 34-03 |
| Port Orchard 360-874-5535 |
$20 | February 1, 2017 | 18-02 |
| Poulsbo | $20 | April 1, 2023 | 18-03 |
| Prosser 509-786-2332 |
$25 | November 1, 2009 | 03-03 |
| Richland 509-942-7500 |
$20 | January 1, 2018 | 03-04 |
| Roy 253-843-1113 |
$20 | January 1, 2015 | 27-12 |
| Royal City 509-346-2263 |
$20 | November 1, 2012 | 13-11 |
| Seattle 206-684-7623 |
$50 | January 18, 2024 | 17-26 |
| Sedro-Woolley 360-855-1661 |
$20 | July 1, 2015 | 29-08 |
| Shoreline 206-801-2302 |
$40 | February 1, 2010 | 17-37 |
| Soap Lake 509-246-1211 |
$20 | November 1, 2013 | 13-12 |
| Spokane 509-625-6252 |
$20 | September 1, 2011 | 32-10 |
| Spokane Valley | $20 TBD | July 1, 2024 | 32-13 |
| Tacoma 253-591-5681 |
$20 | June 1, 2013 | 27-17 |
| Toppenish 509-865-4500 |
$20 | December 1, 2012 | 39-10 |
| University Place 253-460-5447 |
$10 | June 1, 2021 | 27-19 |
| Vancouver 360-487-8410 ext. 3 |
$40 | July 1, 2016 | 06-05 |
| Wapato 509-877-2334 |
$20 | April 1, 2013 | 39-12 |
| Washougal 360-835-8501 |
$20 | June 1, 2019 | 06-06 |
| Wilkeson 360-829-0790 |
$20 | January 1, 2015 | 27-18 |
| Yakima 509-575-6111 |
$20 | July 1, 2018 | 39-13 |
| Zillah 509-829-5151 |
$20 | July 1, 2012 | 39-14 |
How a transportation benefit district works
Once a local transportation benefit district is set up, the district's board of directors may vote to charge a local vehicle licensing fee due when a vehicle owner buys new tabs.
- The transportation benefit district board has the authority to impose a fee of up to $20 per vehicle without voter approval.
- A transportation benefit district may impose a vehicle renewal fee of up to $100 per vehicle or seek other sources of funding if they have voter approval.
If you're a transportation benefit district or want to set one up, email us: bdevol@dol.wa.gov.
Vehicles subject to fees
- Passenger vehicles
- Trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Motorcycles
- Commercial passenger vehicles and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Commercial trailers
- Combination trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Combination trailers
- Tow trucks
- House moving dollies
- Trucks used exclusively for hauling logs that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Trailers used exclusively for hauling logs
- Taxicabs
- For-hire or stage vehicles with 6 seats or less
- For-hire or stage vehicles with 7 or more seats that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Private use trailers over 2,000 pounds
- Motorcycle trailers
- Travel trailers
- Fixed load vehicles that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Mobile homes licensed as vehicles
- Motor homes
- Neighborhood electric passenger vehicle and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
- Medium-speed electric passenger vehicle and trucks that weigh 6,000 pounds or less
Exempt vehicles
- All farm vehicles
- Campers
- Off-road vehicles
- Snowmobiles, including vintage snowmobiles
- Mopeds
- ATVs
- Personal use trailers with a single axle and less than 2,000 pounds scale weight
- Antique, collector, and restored vehicles
- Converter gear
- Government vehicles
- Federally owned vehicles and federal motorcycle trailers
- Private school vehicles
- Vehicles properly registered to disabled American veterans
- Commercial passenger vehicles and trucks that weigh 6,001 pounds or more