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Mill Creek council adopts higher exemption threshold for out‑of‑city business licenses
Summary
The council adopted an ordinance increasing the city’s exemption threshold for out‑of‑city business licenses from $2,000 to $4,000 and adopting a CPI-based inflation adjustment; the change must be in place for DOR by Oct. 1 so the new level takes effect Jan. 1, 2026.
The Mill Creek City Council voted unanimously to update its business-license ordinance to match the state model’s raised exemption threshold for businesses headquartered outside the city.
City staff presented the change, noting that the state’s 2017 law required a business-license model ordinance and that the Association of Washington Cities published model language. The measure raises the threshold at which an out‑of‑city business doing work inside Mill Creek…
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