Current Business License Requirements:

Not all businesses are required to seek a business license from the City. There are, however, certain specific types of businesses that are required to seek a license, as follows:

• Ambulances
• Charitable Solicitations
• Dances
• Dancehalls Where Intoxicating Liquor is Sold or Served
• Fireworks
• For-Hire Vehicles
• Horse Taxis
• Hotels and Motels
• Junk Dealers and Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers
• Adult Entertainment Businesses License
• Outdoor Music Festivals
• Peddlers and Hawkers
• Transient Merchants
• Religious Solicitation
• Tattooing
• Public Utility Tax - Occupation License
• Fire Extinguisher Service Business License

If you are conducting business in any of the above categories, please contact the City Clerk at City Hall, 321 E. 5th Street, call 360-417-4634 or by email at: cityclerk@cityofpa.us to obtain a business license application and further information.

In most instances, the annual fee for a business license is $25.00, and the license year is July 1 through June 30. Once an application is received and the fee paid, the City Clerk’s office can typically issue a business license in 3-5 working days.

Other helpful business links:

Washington State Department of Revenue
(General Tax Information / Business Registration)
www.dor.wa.gov

Washington State Department of Licensing
(Business License)
www.dol.wa.gov

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