Steamboat Springs City Council Considering Lift Ticket Tax

Steamboat Springs City Council Considering Lift Ticket Tax

Steamboat Springs, Colorado — In response to a struggle to grow revenue from sales taxes, Steamboat Springs is considering adding a tax to a pricey item in the town. Over the past month, the Steamboat Pilot & Today and the Yampa Valley Bugle have been reporting on a plan by the Steamboat Springs City Council to introduce a ballot measure that would ask whether a tax should be added to lift tickets at Steamboat Resort. Negotiations have begun wit…

Steamboat Resort, City to begin lift tax negotiations alongside process to draft ballot language

The two processes will work in parallel this summer, likely resulting in either a question on November’s ballot or a solution born out of negotiations. The city of Steamboat Springs will hold negotiations about a potential lift tax with Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. over the next four months — talks that will unfold alongside a process to draft a lift tax policy that City Council may choose to send to voters in November. The parallel process will…