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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Hold Lifted on Garduño's Liquor Application
By Rivkela Brodsky
Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal
It looks like you will still be able to get a margarita at Garduño's after all.
A hold placed on the company's liquor license renewal application by the state Taxation and Revenue Department has been lifted, the Journal learned Monday.
It's still unclear, however, if Tortilla Inc., parent company of Garduños, has paid its $750,000 tax debt to the state.
Under state law, the state Alcohol and Gaming Division cannot renew a company's liquor license if it owes taxes. The state Taxation and Revenue Department had placed the hold because of the alleged debt.
The Alcohol and Gaming Division would only confirm Monday that the hold had been lifted.
Marlena Taylor, spokeswoman for Taxation and Revenue, said she was unable to say whether Garduños had paid off all or part of its tax debt, citing confidentiality laws. A July 16 court date in Santa Fe District Court over the tax issues still stands, she said.
She referred the Journal to a state law which allows that Regulation and Licensing cannot renew a liquor license unless there is “no assessed tax liability from engaging in business authorized by the liquor license or, if there is assessed tax liability, the licensee is not a delinquent taxpayer” and “there are not unfiled tax returns due from engaging in business authorized by the liquor license.”
The Taxation and Revenue Department asked a court on June 16 to stop Garduños from doing business if it did not pay its back taxes.
Mike Calcaterra, CEO of Garduños, said through his secretary, that he had no comment at this time.
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