The City of Grand Junction has joined an online portal designed to simplify the collection and remittance of sales taxes for businesses.

The city joined Colorado’s Sales and Use Tax System (SUTS) online portal.

The SUTS portal enables Colorado businesses to file sales tax returns for participating home rule jurisdictions as well as the state and state-administered jurisdictions from one online portal at https://colorado.munirevs.com.

The portal also includes a geographic information system tax rate lookup tool that enables businesses to find the tax rate of any jurisdiction simply by entering an address.

Other features of the portal include: A taxability and exemption matrix, the ability to calculate tax rates on items with differing tax rates in the same jurisdiction and arecord of the history of any changes.

Colorado includes 223 tax jurisdictions, 70 of them home rule self-collecting tax jurisdictions. These jurisdictions can establish their own tax bases, requiring businesses to file and remit taxes directly to the municipality or county.

For more information, log on to https://tax.colorado.gov/SUTS-info.