The state of Colorado this week temporarily seized Ski Town Computing for allegedly failing to pay sales taxes.
A letter dated March 7 posted on Ski Town’s front door stated the business owed the Colorado Department of Revenue $11,548 for September and August sales taxes in 2016.
Ski Town Computing owner Marcus Worthen said the brief seizure resulted from a misunderstanding with the Department of Revenue. The store closed Tuesday, and it reopened Wednesday afternoon.
Worthen said he had been paying his taxes online, and the confusion was created because he had purchased Connecting Point in Durango.
He bought Connecting Point’s assets to open the Durango Ski Town Computing last year, his second location.
The Department of Revenue sent notices to an old address for the business, and he had not received those, he said.
Worthen first opened Ski Town Computing in Steamboat Springs in 2013, and that location remains open and was not affected by the dispute that closed the Durango office, he said.
Calls to the Colorado Department of Revenue were not immediately returned.
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