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Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA)

The City of Brighton encourages businesses to voluntarily remit all sales, use, lodging, and other taxes owed to the City of Brighton. A voluntary disclosure program is available that provides for partial or full waiver of late penalties due on delinquent remittances.

Eligible Taxpayers

A Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA) is available to taxpayers who are not currently registered to collect sales or use taxes due to the City.

Your business is NOT eligible if any of the following conditions are true:

  1. Your company is under audit by the City of Brighton.
  2. Your company is currently licensed and/or registered to remit sales tax to the City of Brighton.

Lookback Period

For VDAs, all taxes collected from customers are considered to be held in trust and must be remitted regardless of the timeframe or period of lookback.  For taxes due, but not collected from customers, the lookback period will be limited to the current calendar year and prior thirty-six (36) months.

Statutory interest per month from when the tax was due will be added to the disclosure.  

How to Start

Complete the online application available below. Not that the Taxpayer or Company name must be disclosed. 

Submit a scheduled of taxes with a summary due per month for the lookback period to our secure link brightonco.gov/taxdocs

The City will review your application and submitted documentation. If you would like to review a sample of the VDA agreement or have any questions regarding the VDA program, please contact us at SalesTax@Brightonco.gov or 303-655-2041. 

Application for Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA)

  1. City of Brighton Application for Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA)

    The City of Brighton encourages businesses to voluntarily remit all sales, use, lodging, and other taxes owed to the City of Brighton. The Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA) Program provides a full wavier of late penalties on delinquent remittances for eligible businesses. Please note that interest is still due. As part of the agreement the business will register to remit sales and use tax to the City going forward. To register a business go to Brightonco.Munirevs.com.

    If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please contact the tax and licensing division at SalesTax@Brightonco.gov or 303-655-2041.

  2. Taxpayer Information

  3. Taxpayer’s Representative Information

  4. Liability & Reporting Period

    (do not include periods for which you have already filed a City of Brighton Sales Tax Return)

  5. Estimated Taxes Owed

    (interest will be added to total due as part of the VDA agreement; penalty will be waived)

  6. Please answer each question fully. Failure to disclose all relevant information could result in the nullification of the agreement, loss of the reporting period, and denial of the waiver of delinquent penalty.

  7. 1. Did the Company collect City of Brighton tax during the liability & reporting period?*
  8. 2. Is the Company or its affiliated company(s) currently (or previously) licensed with the City of Brighton and/or have a sales tax account?*
  9. 3. Is the Company or its affiliated company(s) under an audit by the City of Brighton (Colorado) or have you been previously contacted by the City for any tax due?*
  10. 4. If the City of Brighton agrees to a Voluntary Disclosure Agreement, is the taxpayerwilling to provide records upon request by the City of Brighton to verify theinformation presented?If misrepresented or materially incorrect information ispresented, the City of Brighton may void the Voluntary Disclosure Agreement.*
  11. Describe the nature of the business, including what the business sells, the services it provides, the date the business or its predecessor started conducting business and any other facts that might have a bearing on tax liability.

  12. Describe the nature of the contact of the business with the City. Explain the reason or the change in circumstances that has caused the business to seek this agreement.

  13. Describe any recent contact between the City and the business. Has the business been contacted by the City recently with respect to the filing of taxes and/or is the company now under audit?

  14. By checking the box below you acknowledge the following:*
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  16. This field is not part of the form submission.

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