2F504D376343555B872588CA0058A46D Hearing Summary

Ed DeCecco, Office of Legislative Legal Services, gave background information related to local lodging taxes.

Gini Pingenot, Colorado Counties, Inc., provided information about local lodging taxes from a county perspective.  She provided a map to the task force, which can be found here: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/lodging_excise_tax_2....

Meghan Dollar, Colorado Municipal League (CML), and Leslie Edwards, Town of Frisco, provided information about local lodging taxes from a municipal perspective.  According to CML surveys, approximately 41 municipalities have a local lodging tax.  These tax rates range from 1 percent to 8 percent, with the average being 3 or 4 percent.

Ashley Hodgini, Expedia Group, provided information about local lodging taxes from Expedia's perspective.  A letter submitted by Expedia to the task force on the issue in July can be found here: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/eg_co_suts_task_forc....

Erin Neer, GovOS, provided information about the technology platform developed by GovOS to facilitate the remittance of local lodging taxes and the technology parameters to consider in this discussion.

Members of the panel responded to questions from the task force.  Discussion ensued with Josh Pens, Department of Revenue, regarding potentially having the department collect lodging taxes.

Mr. Pens and the task force continued to discuss local lodging taxes at the county level.