Quote Originally Posted by Eric P View Post
If that's the case, home rule tax collection needs to end. All applicable taxes need to be collected by the state, then distributed up to each tax district by the state. This makes more sense and eliminates local tax collector positions. Oops, there is the flaw, killing guberment jobs.

Otherwise this new policy will kill small businesses that don't sell through market places like Amazon. Was this law sponsored by amazon? Hmm...
Currently, it takes me about an hour to fill out monthly sales tax returns for my business. As an indentured servant of the state and the city of Golden, my princely compensation for that hour is a whopping 3.33% of the tax I am forced to collect on their behalf. If I am forced to register with, for instance, Grand Junction and Mesa County to sell a set of tires and ship them to one of my long time customers, I would receive about $8 to file a year's worth of returns, not taking into account the cost of the tax licenses. Allowing the state to collect all municipal taxes only works if they can configure the state return to account for all 650+ tax rates in various parts of the state, which would probably take the time to fill out the return from about an hour to several hours. I can't see the home rule cities giving up their fee revenue for business licenses, nor paying the state for collecting their taxes.