Pet Tax in Colorado

[Baymule]

ALERT: Colorado Pet Tax for ALL Animals | USARK - United States Association of Reptile Keepers

usark.org

This proposed pet tax is beyond stupid.

 

[secuono]

ALERT: Colorado Pet Tax for ALL Animals | USARK - United States Association of Reptile Keepers

usark.org

This proposed pet tax is beyond stupid.

That's pretty insane when it comes to pets other than a dog or cat. Totally crazy for fish.
What's the purpose behind it? Stopping pet hoarding or simple greed?

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Wowwwwwwwwwww. But that almost doesn't surprise me. Colorado has gotten wild. The governor is very confused about animals, so it definitely seems like something he came up with, to go with his crowd.
Really would be interested to hear the logic.

 

[SageHill]

That's pretty insane when it comes to pets other than a dog or cat. Totally crazy for fish.
What's the purpose behind it? Stopping pet hoarding or simple greed?

Simple GREED. And more than likely totally supported by PETA. The beginning of the end for any domestic animals.

 

[Baymule]

I couldn’t live in a state like that.

 

[Weldman]

A pet animal owner must register the pet animal in the system annually for a fee set by the enterprise, which must be no more than $8.50 annually per pet animal with a designated caregiver, $16 annually per pet animal that is a dog or cat that is not neutered or spayed and has a designated caregiver, and $25 annually per pet animal without a designated caregiver. The fee set by the enterprise is in addition to any pet registration or licensing fee assessed by any other jurisdiction. The enterprise will collect both state and local fees and transmit any fee levied by another jurisdiction to that jurisdiction and the fee levied by the state to the newly created pet animal registration cash fund. The state's fee will be used to develop, implement, maintain, and administer the system and reimburse animal shelters for the cost of taking custody of a pet animal for which a caregiver cannot be located or has refused to take custody.
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1163

 

[Skiesblue]

Good Lord and contact your representatives. Edit - perhaps it’s come to this. People being irresponsible and now the government has to step in. Contact representatives just the same, I hear the pitter patter of unintended consequences. And unexpected ones

 

[Weldman]

Good Lord and contact your representatives. Edit - perhaps it’s come to this. People being irresponsible and now the government has to step in. Contact representatives just the same, I hear the pitter patter of unintended consequences.

Instead of making the public pay for unfixed animals, they re going after the owners. Problem is, is this doesn't work. That allocated money from the tax payers to fix and control animals will still flow the same as if owners all fixed their animals. Once a tax is passed for something, even if it's fixed it's never repealed.

 

[SageHill]

Please don’t let gruesome see this.
They are making RESPONSIBLE owners PAY for IRRESPONSIBLE owners.

 

[Weldman]

Please don’t let gruesome see this.
They are making RESPONSIBLE owners PAY for IRRESPONSIBLE owners.

They are also making non pet owners pay too through their property taxes.