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The city was incorporated on a promise to keep city taxes at 1%. (One of the campaigns against incorporation appealed to voters to maintain the 3.8% sales tax of the unincorporated county.) According to the Centennial website, the current sales tax rate is two-and-a-half times the promised rate, at 2.5%.
The tax is computed as the determined market value times an assessment ratio times the tax rate. [10] Assessment ratios and tax rates vary among jurisdictions, and may vary by type of property within a jurisdiction. [11] Most jurisdictions' legislative bodies determine their assessment ratios and tax rates, though some states impose constraints ...
Arapahoe County (/ ə ˈ r æ p ə h oʊ / ə-RAP-ə-hoh) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census , its population was 655,070, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in Colorado.
The SCFD is funded by a 0.1% sales and use tax that provided funding to 240 organizations in 2015. [2] The district comprises seven counties in the Denver Metropolitan Area: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. [3] Every twelve years, voters in the district decide whether to renew the district or to dissolve it.
Tax is collected by the Colorado Department of Revenue. The Colorado income tax rate is a flat 4.55 percent of federal taxable income regardless of income level. Colorado's state sales tax is 2.9 percent on retail sales. [19] Full-year Colorado residents can claim an excess sales tax refund on their individual state income tax return.
Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County and is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The city population was 45,652 at the 2020 United States Census , ranking as the 20th most populous municipality in Colorado.
Watkins (also called Box Elder) is an unincorporated town and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Arapahoe and Adams counties, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The tax became effective January 1, 1974 and was raised to 0.6% on May 1, 1983. [7] On January 1, 2005 the tax rate increased to 1.0%. [8] In 1974, RTD acquired and consolidated the local bus systems. Denver Metro Transit became part of RTD in July 1974. RTD acquired the bus system in Boulder from the Public Service Company of Colorado. [9]