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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-05 Expressing Opposition to Sales Tax Simplification Legislationf ~ Y RESOLUTION N0. 5 Series of 1985 A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF VAIL, COLORADO, EXPRESSING OPPOSITION TO SALES TAX SIMPLIFICATION" LEGISLATION WHICH WOULD ELIMINATE LOCAL CONTROL OF THE MUNICIPAL SALES TAX BASE AND LOCAL CONTROL OF SALES AND USE TAX ENFORCEMTN. WHEREAS, the Town of Vail has a sales and use tax which is levied locally; and WHEREAS, the municipal sales and use tax is the principal tax source for our municipality, raising in 1983 $5,493,546.42 in revenue, in comparison with only $1,369,463.73 raised from the municipal property tax; and WHEREAS, sales tax simplification legislation recommended by the interim Business Issues Committee for consideration during the 1985 legislative session, known as House Bill 1007, would require the local sales tax base and definitions to conform with the State base and defa~nitians, centralize enforcement and auditing powers and procedure in the State Department of Revenue, prohibit application of use taxes to storage and generally reduce local sales and use tax revenues of Home Rule municipalities; and WHEREAS, the State base has become unreliable and smaller in recent years through enactment of many exemptions; and WHEREAS, the Town of Vail supports many revisions in the sales and use tax system which will streamline state and local sales and use taxes without major Ions of local control or local revenues as proposed in House Biil 1099. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWN OF VAIL, that: 1.The Town Council opposes House Bi11 1007 or any other sales tax legislation which ties the local sales and use tax to the state base with or without local options and opposes granting the Department of Revenue unilateral authority to determine and control all definitions relating to local sales tax bases. The Town further opposes the centralization of auditing, enforcement and appeals authority in the Department of Revenue and the loss of authority for municipalities to impose use taxes on storage. 2.The Town Council supports legislation drafted by the Colorado Municipal League, House Bil] 1099, which would simplify the sales tax system without unduly interfering with local control of the sales and use tax. 3.The Town Council urges its senators and representatives to support sales tax legislation as drafted by the Colorado Municipal League and to vigorously oppose any state legislation which would provide for state control of the local r t Y sales and use tax base and which would provide for centralized enforcement activities by the Department of Revenue or otherwise result in loss of local control and revenues. INTRODUCED, READ, PASSED, AND ADAPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Vail, Colorado, held on February 5, 1985. w~ w ATTEST:~.r. Kent R. Ruse, Mayor Pra Tem Pamela A:. Brandmeyer, Town Clerk