Colorado — statewide
Colorado Department of Revenue, Taxation Division
In short
Colorado Department of Revenue, Taxation Division issues 1 permit we publish for Colorado — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Tax License | Colorado Department of Revenue, Taxation Division | $16 falling to $4 depending on where in the two-year cycle you apply, plus a refundable $50 deposit on a first location; $16 per location to renew | 2 years — every license expires on 31 December of an odd-numbered year | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Sales Tax License
The fee is prorated to what is left of the cycle, so the same license costs $16 in the first half of an even year, $12 in the second, $8 in the first half of an odd year and $4 in the second. On top of that a first location posts a $50 deposit, refunded automatically once the business has remitted $50 of state sales tax — so opening a first location today costs $62 rather than $12. Renewal is a flat $16 per physical location and every license expired together on 31 December 2025, the current period running to the end of 2027. The important limit is geographic: the department administers state tax and the local taxes it collects on behalf of most jurisdictions, but a number of home-rule cities administer, license and audit their own, and a business physically located in one needs that city's license as well as this one. Mobile vendors must tell the department every jurisdiction they sell in, home-rule ones included.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado — statewide
- Phone
- (303) 238-7378
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Colorado Department of Revenue — sales tax license renewal, $16 per physical location for the 2026 to 2027 periodColorado Department of Revenue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Colorado Department of Revenue — standard retail license, the prorated fee table and the $50 depositColorado Department of Revenue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Colorado sales tax guide — licensing, expiry on 31 December of odd years, and the home-rule distinctionColorado Department of Revenue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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Colorado jurisdictions
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