{"id":24263,"date":"2021-02-20T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=24263"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:56:00","slug":"vaping-news-colorado-counties-excited-to-spend-smokers-vapers-tax-cash-cow-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/24263","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: COLORADO [Counties Excited To Spend Smokers &amp; Vapers Tax Cash Cow Revenue]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"47ogi-0-0\">&#8220;After rolling out their respective tobacco taxes in 2020, Pitkin County and Glenwood Springs have enjoyed a healthy amount of sales tax revenue off the purchase of tobacco and nicotine products locally. In Glenwood Springs, its voter-approved tobacco tax generated too much money, city officials have estimated. Although still finalizing 2020\u2019s tobacco tax revenue, Boyd believed Glenwood Springs tax brought in $928,000 last year. Glenwood Springs\u2019 tobacco tax levies $4 on each pack of cigarettes and a 40% tax on all other tobacco and nicotine products sold in the city. Because Glenwood Springs\u2019 ballot question said the tax would collect up to $900,000 in 2020, in accordance with the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, the city must rebate the excess $28,000. According to City Attorney Karl Hanlon, city council members will ultimately decide how to rebate the $28,000 back into the community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BILL TARLING &#8212; <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><em>Notice how they say they will think of a way to rebate $28,000 back to the community, and not back to the people they overcharged or the vapers they&#8217;re pushing back to smoking.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspendailynews.com\/news\/tobacco-tax-provides-big-bucks-to-county-city-coffers\/article_82d4aec4-732a-11eb-a410-a3e4df3c73d0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tobacco tax provides big bucks to county, city coffers<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20COLORADO%20%5BCounties%20Excited%20To%20Spend%20Smokers%20%26amp%3B%20Vapers%20Tax%20Cash%20Cow%20Revenue%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After rolling out their respective tobacco taxes in 2020, Pitkin County and Glenwood Springs have enjoyed a healthy amount of sales tax revenue off the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24263\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}