January 1, 1996

Unfair sales-and-use tax system deserves to be tossed out door

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Fort Collins city officials should move quickly to rework the city’s unfair sales and use tax. The outlook, thankfully, appears good.

City Manager John Fischbach has proposed tiered rates for use taxes paid by the area’s manufacturers. The proposal will be considered at a study session of the City Council Jan. 9. The proposal comes in the midst of a communitywide debate over how much tax should be paid by employers who create so-called “primary” jobs -essentially, those that earn higher-than-average wages and create additional spinoff jobs.

The tax was at the heart of Hyundai America’s decision to bypass Fort Collins for…

Christopher Wood
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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