From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Mon May 11 14:58:48 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA83594 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:58:47 -0700 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP id OAA19327 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:58:47 -0700 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA17889; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:03:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05954; Mon, 11 May 1998 21:59:34 GMT Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:59:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" Reply-To: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: residency@u.washington.edu cc: wendyb@atg.wa.gov Subject: Residency via resident parent Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've had two cases in recent weeks involving students whom I've classified as residents because they have one resident parent (but live out of state with a non-res parent). The first one was stopped by a traffic cop, who somehow learned that the student was paying resident tuition. He told the student that he's required to change his driver's license and vehicle registration because he is paying resident tuition. I subsequently spoke with the cop and said I didn't believe the law required the student to make the changes; it only says that a student who is a dependent and has a resident parent can be classified as a resident. The second case involved a student who purchased a car here, and in the transaction stated that he was not a resident and therefore was exempted from the sales tax of several hundred dollars. Later he was contacted by the department of revenue and was told that since he's paying resident tuition he'd have to cough up the sales tax plus some heavy penalties by next week. Again, in my judgement, the student should not be treated as a resident for taxing purposes just because the law allows him to be classified as a resident for tuition purposes. Comments? Joe St.Hilaire Western .