The proprietor of a deli restaurant and fine-foods market in Denver mentioned the enterprise has reopened Friday, three days after the state’s tax division abruptly seized the property over greater than $140,000 in again taxes.
Leven Provide, at 300 E. Alameda Ave., paid what was owed the Colorado Division of Income, its advertising and marketing director, Becky Fairchild, mentioned.
“We paid the cash. It’s not like we didn’t wish to pay the cash earlier than,” she mentioned.
A Colorado Division of Income spokesperson declined to verify the fee, however the retailer is now open.
Anthony Lygizos, who opened Leven Provide in early 2025, mentioned he paid his staff on the times the shop was closed. Lygizos had mentioned the failure to pay the funds, most of which was in withheld gross sales taxes, was resulting from an accounting error from a contractor employed to file state tax funds.
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