ARCHIVED  October 1, 1997

City, mailers square off over use tax

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FORT COLLINS — A move by the city of Fort Collins to collect a 3 percent use tax from businesses not previously targeted has raised concerns among those businesses and has both sides scurrying to attorneys.
At issue is whether the city can charge direct-mail companies such as Val-Pak of Northern Colorado Inc. and Money Mailer of Northern Colorado the tax for doing business that has a "nexus" or connection to the city.
"They feel that even though we˜re printed out of state and sent through the mail that we should be taxed," said John Kirsch, owner of the Money…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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