Sales Tax Reference Guide
Current Tax Rates:
When are Sales
Tax Returns
Town of Snowmass Village Sales Tax
3.5%
Due?
Town of Snowmass Village Lodging Tax 2.4%
Pitkin County Sales Tax
3.6%
RFTA
0.4%
Sales Tax Returns must
be post marked by the
State of Colorado Sales Tax
2.9%
th
20
of the month in
which they are due.
You should collect 10.4% total on all retail sales.
3.5% will be remitted directly to the Town of
For example, if you are
Snowmass Village and the remaining 6.9 % will be remitted to the State for the County and State portions.
a monthly filer, your
You should collect 12.8% total for the use of furnished rooms or accommodations
January taxes would be
when the rental period is less than thirty consecutive days.
The 3.5% Sales Tax and 2.4%
th
due by the 20
of
Lodging Tax will be directly remitted to the Town of Snowmass Village and the remaining 6.9% will be
February. If you are a
remitted to the State for the County, RFTA, and State portions.
quarterly filer, your
returns for January,
February, and March
Sales taxes shall be collected as follows:
would be due on the
th
20
of April.
Upon telephone and telegraph services
For gas and electric service
On leases (includes vehicles, equipment, office equipment, etc.)
Available Filing Options:
On short‐term rentals (includes lodging less than 30 days, ski rentals, tents, chairs, etc.)
On the purchase price paid or charge upon all sales and purchases of
tangible personal property.
Monthly Filing‐ If your business submits more than
$60 a month in sales taxes you must file on a
monthly basis.
Exemptions from tax:
Quarterly Filing‐ If your business submits less than
All sales to the federal government, to the State, its departments and institutions,
and the political subdivisions thereof in their governmental capacities only.
$60 a month in sales taxes you may choose to file
All sales made to religious, charitable or eleemosynary organizations in the
quarterly. You are still required to complete
conduct of regular religious, charitable or eleemosynary functions and activities.
All sales which the State is prohibited from taxing under the Constitution or
separate sales tax forms for each month but may
laws of the United States or the State.
All sales of cigarettes.
remit them on a quarterly basis.
All sales of drugs dispensed in accordance with a prescription and all sales of
prosthetic devices.
All sales and purchases of commodities and services to any occupant who is a
permanent resident of any hotel, apartment hotel, lodging house, motor hotel, guest ranch, mobile home,
auto camp, trailer court or park, and who enters into or has entered into a written agreement for occupancy
of a room or rooms or accommodations for a period of at least thirty consecutive days during the calendar
year or preceding year.