Effective Jan 1, 2025: Filing Sales Tax and Remitting Payment

NEW - Effective for All Taxable Sales On or After January 1, 2025

The City of Aspen will be moving to a state collection process for the City's local sales tax for sales on or after 1/1/2025. While all other local taxes will still be self-collected and will continue to be reported and paid via the city's own tax portal (MuniRevs), the sales tax levied on these same services or goods will now need to be remitted along with the County and State sales taxes directly to the State.  

So what does this mean for you?

  • If you are a vendor that does not provide lodging nor do you sell nicotine or related products, you will likely only need to file collected sales tax (State, County and City) solely within the State Department of Revenue tax portal.
  • If you are a vendor that provides lodging accommodations, you will need to file sales taxes (State, County and City) with the State Department of Revenue tax portal.  You will also need to file local City lodging taxes (traditional lodging and if applicable, short-term rental excise taxes) via the City's MuniRevs portal.
  • If you are a vendor that sells nicotine or related products that would be taxable under the City's tobacco tax program, you will need to file tobacco taxes via the City's MuniRevs portal.
  • If you are a vendor that is subject to the City's bag fee, you will need to collect and remit these fees via the MuniRev's portal.

In addition to the changes in filing procedures noted above, vendors should be aware that the City will no longer allow for a deduction for a vendor fee on any state or locally collected taxes for sales on or after January 1, 2025.

Important Milestones

As noted above, taxable sales prior to January 1, 2025 should be reported and remitted directly to the City of Aspen as always, using the City's MuniRevs online portal.  The City will hold open tax forms for delinquent 2024 filers for a few months to still allow for proper tax remittance of these periods prior to January 2025 retail activity and will actively pursue vendors to remit taxes for these months. 

For all sales that occur on or after January 1, 2025, sales tax remittance should be done accessing the State tax portal by navigating to the following site via the hyperlink for Revenue Online. There are no changes to tax filing deadlines - the 20th day following the most recently completed month is the filing deadline for that period.

If you need assistance on how to navigate and remit payment via the state platform, please reach out to the State of Colorado, Department of Revenue for assistance.  The phone number for that office is 303.238.7378.  Emailing that department is also possible at DOR_localgovsupport@state.co.us