Starting April 1, 2026, a tax is imposed for the act of parking in a commercial parking lot. Revenue from the commercial parking tax is used for transportation purposes only, including street construction and maintenance, street paving, sidewalk construction and maintenance, and other transportation improvements.
Exemptions from the tax are provided to tax-exempt carpools, vehicles with a disabled parking placard, government vehicles, and vehicles parking in designated parking stalls for thirty-day periods where the person has exclusive use of the designated parking stalls
The commercial parking tax does not apply to the City of Spokane's on-street parking system.
Please email commercialparking@spokanecity.org if you have any questions about commerical parking tax.
Have a question about parking? Call 311, or for outside city limits, 509.755.CITY (2489).