A. Service Address. Payments by a customer for the telephone service from telephones without a fixed location (i.e., cellular telephone service) shall be allocated among taxing jurisdictions to the location which is the customer’s principal service address during the period for which the tax applies.

B. Presumption. There is a presumption that the service address a customer supplies to the taxpayer is current and accurate, unless the taxpayer has actual knowledge to the contrary.

C. Roaming Phones. When service is provided while a subscriber is roaming outside the subscriber’s normal cellular network area, the gross income shall be assigned consistent with the taxpayer’s accounting system to the location of the originating cell site of the call, or to the location of the main cellular switching office that switched the call.

D. Dispute Resolution. If there is a dispute among one or more other cities/towns, and/or the taxpayer, as to the service address of a customer who is receiving cellular telephone services, and the dispute is not resolved by negotiation among the parties, then the dispute shall be resolved by the town and the other city or cities by submitting the issue for settlement to the Association of Washington Cities (AWC). The taxpayer shall have no further liability with respect to additional taxes on the disputed revenues, but will charge his or her billing records for future revenues to comply with the settlement facilitated by AWC.

E. Authority of Clerk. The clerk is authorized to represent the town in negotiations with other cities for the proper allocation of cellular telephone service taxes imposed pursuant to this chapter. [Ord. 569 § 3, 2018.]