Sacks of Cash Spur States to Seek Cannabis Tax Solutions

The cash that Reno cannabis businesses bring to City Hall to pay their taxes weighs more than some of the employees in charge of collecting it.

The city schedules a special tax day for four dispensaries to pay tens of thousands of dollars each quarter. It’s a “Hollywood movie amount of money,” if not exactly in uniform denominations wrapped in crisp bundles as you’d see in a film, said Dylan Shaver, director of Reno’s Office of Policy and Strategy. Staff have to count wads of cash in a guarded room while the taxpayer waits. An armored truck takes it for ...