City plans to start releasing more marijuana sales tax data

Steamboat Springs — Steamboat Springs residents soon will get to see how much the new marijuana industry is putting into the city's coffers each month.

The upcoming monthly releases of marijuana sales tax data also could be used to estimate how many of the sales are coming from locals and how many from tourists.

To date, city officials have not released monthly sales tax data on the marijuana industry for two reasons.

Initially, there were only two dispensaries up and running, so disclosure would have violated city and state confidentiality rules.

With three pot shops now up and running, the city is no longer concerned about breaching sales tax confidentiality rules. But it continued withholding the monthly data on the marijuana industry, because it typically does not release sales tax figures for any industry that doesn't account for at least three percent of the city's overall sales tax collections.

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