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Vail official proposes tax on ski-lift tickets
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

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VAIL, Colorado — Eagle County commissioners want to tax lift tickets to pay for roads, forest work or housing.

Commissioner Peter Runyon has asked Colorado Counties Inc. to lobby for a provision that would allow counties to levy a “use tax” on ski-lift tickets.

Reached Thursday, Runyon said he envisions a statewide — not countywide — tax on lift tickets. Lift tickets are exempt from sales taxes, but they should be subject to some taxation, Runyon said.

“Exempting the ski industry from sales tax was put forward in the ’60s when the ski industry was very small and the state Legislature wanted to encourage and promote it,” Runyon said. “I would argue that the ski industry is very much on its feet and has probably grown a few extra feet.”

Voters would have to approve a new tax.


The whole article is here:
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20080828/NEWS/808289952
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

I haven't read the article, but I must say that I can't see any reason why lift passes should be exempt from tax. Do we pay TVA on lift passes in Europe? I've always assumed so.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Ski Lifts are classed as public transportation systems by the EU and thus are VAT exempt in most of the Alps (Not in the UK where the government has decreed that a ski lift capacity is the capacity of an individual carrier not the complete system which belongs to the drive unit - that's like saying a bus only seats 2people because thats the size of the seats! cue rant..... Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad )...
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Yes I can see that skiers are not contributing to the local economy and should be made to pay for the privlege of going to one of the highest cost ski areas in the US. I assume of course that all the rooms, rentals, and food services are tax free too.
I can see it now a one season boycott would have them crying for skiers, cheap tax dodgers that we are.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

pinhead wrote:
Yes I can see that skiers are not contributing to the local economy and should be made to pay for the privlege of going to one of the highest cost ski areas in the US. I assume of course that all the rooms, rentals, and food services are tax free too.
I can see it now a one season boycott would have them crying for skiers, cheap tax dodgers that we are.


Pretty much sums it up. Looks like greed on behaf of the local authority given the amount of tax tourists already pay.
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