SUTS Demonstration & Information
About SUTS
SUTS is the new Sales & Use Tax System from the Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR). The SUTS System is a one-stop portal that allows you to do all manner of tasks related to collecting and remitting sales and use tax in an easy, automated and seamless fashion. The system has the following capabilities:
Accurately look up sales and use tax rates by address
Single point of remittance and a uniform remittance form
Taxability and exemption matrix
Ability to calculate tax rates on items with differing tax rates in the same jurisdiction
A record of the history of any changes
Department of Revenue (DOR)
The Department has developed a new tool to help taxpayers comply with sales and use tax requirements. The Sales and Use Tax System (SUTS) is a one-stop portal that will allow taxpayers to do all manner of tasks related to collecting and remitting retail sales tax in an easy, automated, and seamless fashion. The Sales & Use Tax System includes a Sales Tax Remittance Portal and a Geographic Information System (GIS).
Remittance Portal
The primary element of the SUTS System is the Remittance Portal. This portal will allow you to file your retail sales tax returns for state, state-collected, and participating home-rule self-collecting taxation jurisdictions in one place.
Note: For special event sales tax, businesses should continue to use Revenue Online to e-file their special event sales tax returns (DR 0098).
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Another element of the SUTS System will allow businesses to easily, and with the aid of free technology, identify the correct taxing jurisdictions related to the sale of a taxable good or service. The Geographic Information System (GIS) now allows businesses to look up the specific sales tax rate for an individual address. The GIS not only shows state sales tax information, but it also includes sales tax information for counties, municipalities, and special taxation districts. This system allows for a complete tax rate to be determined so the correct tax is collected from customers in real-time.
Also, if your internal point of sale system supports it, the GIS information can be accessed through an Application Programming Interface (API).This API can automatically reference current tax information directly from the CDOR. Please note that the Department will need to verify that you have registered for an account for the Remittance Portal before using the API. Additionally, in some instances, the base map from Google cannot resolve some queries where, for example, “county road” is abbreviated as C.R. This issue is being investigated by Google Maps staff and should be resolved shortly.