Colorado's Crazy Marijuana Wholesale Tax Base

5 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2013 Last revised: 27 Mar 2014

Date Written: March 26, 2014

Abstract

Colorado imposes a wholesale level marijuana tax. But it requires, in most cases, vertical integration of marijuana businesses – a requirement that eliminates any market based, arm’s-length wholesale price to base its tax on. This unknowable tax base makes for uncertainty if not chaos in tax administration.

Keywords: tax, marijuana

JEL Classification: A13, D40, E61, E62

Suggested Citation

Oglesby, Pat, Colorado's Crazy Marijuana Wholesale Tax Base (March 26, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2351399 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2351399

Pat Oglesby (Contact Author)

Center for New Revenue ( email )

1830 North Lakeshore Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

HOME PAGE: http://www.newrevenue.org

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