2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 39 - Taxation
Article 28.5. Tax on Tobacco Products
Section 39-28.5-102. Tax levied.
[Editor's note: This version of this section is effective until a ballot issue is approved by the people at the next regular general election in November 2020. See the editor's note following this section.] (1) There is levied and shall be collected a tax upon the sale, use, consumption, handling, or distribution of all tobacco products in this state at the rate of twenty percent of the manufacturer's list price of such tobacco products. Such tax shall be imposed at the time the distributor:
Brings, or causes to be brought, into this state from without the state tobacco products for sale;
Makes, manufactures, or fabricates tobacco products in this state for sale in this state;or
Ships or transports tobacco products to retailers in this state to be sold by thoseretailers.
