Adding an Retail Delivery Fee - New Legislation in Colorado

This solution may suffice in the short term - indeed it’s the only solution available at the moment. But it has two major problems:

  1. It’s not at all connected to sales tax. Per CO Dept of Revenue, the fee is applicable on "…all deliveries by motor vehicle to a location in Colorado with at least one item of tangible personal property subject to state sales or use tax." (emphasis added) This means that a sales tax-exempt customer should not pay this fee, and puts the merchant at risk if they collect the fee erroneously.
  2. Unless you offer Free Shipping, it does not split the Retail Delivery Fee into its own, separate line item, which is spelled out as a requirement in the law. The best you can do is say “Standard Shipping (includes $0.27 Retail Delivery Fee)…$5.27”