Colorado
Colorado sales tax rates for food trucks
The published combined sales tax rate for Colorado cities, what each rate is made of, and which authorities you actually file with.
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Why one mobile food business can owe two cities.
A Colorado sales tax rate is not one tax. It is the state’s 2.9%, plus the county’s, plus whichever special districts cover that spot, plus the city’s — and those parts do not all go to the same place.
Most cities let the state collect for them. Around seventy do not. A home-rule city sets its own rate, decides for itself what is taxable, and collects its own money — which means its own licence, its own return and its own deadline, separate from the state’s. Denver and Glendale share a border. Working one on Wednesday and the other on Friday is two registrations and two filings, not one.
That is the part this page is for: not just the rate, but which authorities are behind it.
What this is and is not. These are published rates, nothing more. Lonchero does not work out what you owe, does not file anything for you, and cannot tell you that you are registered correctly. Check with each authority before you collect or remit.
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This is a problem on our end. Colorado’s own rate lookup is below and is always the authority anyway.
Colorado’s own rate lookup and rate tablesNext to this
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- Colorado food truck permit guides by cityWhat each Colorado city publishes about licensing a mobile food business: which permits, the published fees, and where to apply.
If you run a mobile food business
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