{"id":1492,"date":"2025-10-01T05:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/?page_id=1492"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:49:28","slug":"announcement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/?page_id=1492","title":{"rendered":"Important Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>*** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/?attachment_id=265\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-265\" src=\"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/logo-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content\">\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Elite Massage School has received a notification from the Washington Dept. of Revenue (WA DOR), stating that many services are going to be responsible for charging sales taxes on their services<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">beginning on Wednesday, 10\/1\/25.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The services that we offer fall under the category of \u201cLive Presentations\u201d; which is one of many services added by the ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5814.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">What this means\u2026 Starting on Wednesday, 10\/1\/25 we will start charging Sales Tax on on our in-person Washington State Educational Classes, including our Advanced Massage Therapy License Program and Live&nbsp;In-Person Continuing Education Classes and Webinars.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Any CE Classes that were purchased or registered prior to 10\/1\/25 but held after 10\/1\/25 will not have sales tax charged to the individuals.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Any Elite Massage School contracts that were signed and registered prior to 10\/1\/25 but held after 10\/1\/25 will not have sales tax charged to them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">As of Wednesday, 10\/1\/25 any classes or contracts\/registrations WILL be taxed and added to the total class\/tuition costs.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">We understand the impact this has on educational experiences and are looking to see if there will be an overturn on this bill or further clarification. We will keep you posted with further news.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"popup-content-inner\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Until then; to learn more about this Bill, you may read about it here:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dor.wa.gov\/taxes-rates\/retail-sales-tax\/services-newly-subject-retail-sales-tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5814<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">To see the new tuition and fees, please visit the following page:<\/span>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/?page_id=450\">Tuition &amp; Fees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT *** Elite Massage School has received a notification from the Washington Dept. of Revenue (WA DOR), stating &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1492\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-massage-school.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}