Property tax was the first tax levied in the state of Washington and its collection accounts for about 30% of Washingtonâs total state and local revenue. It continues to be the most important revenue source for public schools, fire protection, libraries, parks and recreation, and other special-purpose districts.
Using the Name tool, you can define a constant, such as a tax rate, that you frequently use in Excel formulas. Go to Insert | Name | Define and type a nameTaxRate, for example. In the Refers to area, type the constant value and click on OK. For a 7 percent tax rate, you would enter 0.07. Now you can write a formula like =SalePrice*TaxRate and Excel will use the constant value you defined for TaxRate.
You can also use the LENGTH, USER, CURRENT, and TODAY functions anywhere in an SQL expression that you would use a constant. In addition, you can include the DBSERVERNAME function in a. statement to display the name of the database server where the current database resides. You can use these functions to select an expression that consists entirely of constant values or an expression that includes column data.