{"id":7629,"date":"2017-08-04T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2739506"},"modified":"2017-08-04T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:31:31","slug":"eagle-county-poll-indicates-support-for-marijuana-tax-that-could-generate-2m-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/eagle-county-poll-indicates-support-for-marijuana-tax-that-could-generate-2m-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagle County poll indicates support for marijuana tax that could generate $2M a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/eagle-county-poll-indicates-support-for-marijuana-tax-that-could-generate-2m-a-year\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Eagle County does not have its own marijuana tax, but the estimated $2 million it could generate locally has the county commissioners eager for one.<\/p>\n<p>A poll by Boulder-based Magellan Strategies told the commissioners that up to three-quarters of likely voters would support a marijuana tax, depending on how the money was spent.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners have until Sept. 8 to put a tax question on the November ballot. The county staff is hammering out a possible ballot question, said Bryan Treu, county attorney and interim county manager.<\/p>\n<p>Because Eagle County does not have its own pot tax, the county\u2019s marijuana money comes from the state\u2019s 10 percent sales tax and 15 percent excise tax.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the state shares $250,000 annually in sales taxes with Eagle County, Treu said.<\/p>\n<p>A county marijuana sales tax would likely be phased in, Treu said, and might start at around 2.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/marijuana\/pot-poll-sees-support-for-retail-reefer-tax-that-could-generate-2m-a-year\/\">at VaiLDaily.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Eagle County does not have its own marijuana tax, but the estimated $2 million it could generate locally has the county commissioners eager for one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,5667,6858,6822,9,5019,1,3,2379,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,5673,6860,6824,5022,4974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}