Washington Printing & Binding Co. v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court refunding to plaintiff $212.75, representing retail sales taxes collected by the tax commission upon what it contends were sales of freight tariffs and supplements furnished to the North Pacific Coast Freight Bureau upon order.

The tax commission levied this amount of assessments against the plaintiffs as representing the two per cent sales tax upon the total charge of $10,636.23 made by plaintiff to the bureau. Plaintiff paid the tax under protest and then petitioned the tax commission for an abatement and refund of the tax, alleging…