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Colorado lawmakers set to propose major changes to taxes
Radical changes to how Coloradans pay for government services — long talked about but previously considered improbable — are now close to becoming bills in the General Assembly. Taken individually, a...
View ArticleLetters: Reform TABOR and Gallagher, eagles are killed by green energy too,...
Unintended consequences of tax-limit amendments Re: “Big tax reform on the way?” March 11 news story Tabor and Gallagher are outmoded ways of funding government. Voters had not considered the...
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Colorado lawmakers passed a bill asking to keep extra TABOR money. Here’s how...
Colorado lawmakers have voted to ask state residents a big question in November: Can the state keep all the tax dollars it collects instead of having to refund some of them? House Bill 1257, sponsored...
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6 things we’ve learned about Colorado Gov. Jared Polis his first months in...
Voting for any politician takes a bit of hope. Much like a romantic partner, you wonder: What are they really like to live with? Last fall, Coloradans decisively sent Democrat Jared Polis to the...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers consider special session on expected TABOR refunds
State lawmakers are working on a draft bill that would bring them back to Denver for a special session with the goal of keeping at least some of the money expected to go out to Coloradans as TABOR tax...
View ArticleGrover Norquist: Trump should index capital gains to spare millions of...
It is wrong to tax inflation. Last week, President Donald Trump agreed. He endorsed the idea of indexing capital gains so that no American would be taxed on the inflation gain on the sale of a house,...
View ArticleCaldara: Don’t give up your TABOR rights or that of your kids’ kids
Forever is a really, really long time. Strawberry fields are forever. Rod Stewart wants us to stay “Forever Young.” The best forever is when my son says, “I love you dad … forever!” Never getting your...
View ArticleFriednash: Can Polis and the Democrats hold out against the far left?
Colorado’s political landscape shifted dramatically in the 2018 midterm elections, primarily in response to President Donald Trump’s election and first two years in office. Previously, the state had...
View ArticleJared Polis wants to cut Colorado’s income tax, but lawmakers have their own...
Democrats, Republicans and the governor all want to change Colorado’s income tax. The problem is, they have three different ideas about what that change should look like. Gov. Jared Polis wants a...
View ArticleNew Colorado ballot proposal: Increase taxes on the rich, lower them for...
Coloradans may be voting this November on a proposal to raise billions of dollars annually by hiking taxes on the rich and using the money on schools and other, unspecified needs of a “growing...
View ArticleSilverii: The tax policy that could save Colorado’s coronavirus stricken budget
This week’s economic forecast was nothing short of devastating for Colorado’s short-term future. The economists who work for the Joint Budget Committee in the state legislature delivered the worst...
View ArticleColorado Democrats seeking to eliminate tax breaks
Democratic lawmakers want to tap into hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating tax breaks that disproportionately help Colorado’s wealthy. But they may have to dare Gov. Jared Polis to veto their...
View ArticleEditorial: Eliminate tax breaks to help shore up the budget
Colorado’s tax code is broken. It is full of billions of dollars in tax breaks and cuts and credits for the few that are funded by the overall taxes paid by the many. Colorado lawmakers have wisely...
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Colorado homeowners have among the lowest tax rates in the U.S., but...
Gail Lindley and Cheri Walsh both have deep roots in north Denver, but they hold very different views when it comes to Amendment B, the Nov. 3 ballot measure that seeks to repeal the Gallagher...
View ArticleCongress approves $900B COVID relief bill, sending to Trump
WASHINGTON — Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation...
View ArticleEditorial: Polis’ State of the State — a pandemic and building back better
Gov. Jared Polis has ushered Coloradans through dark times these past 12 months, and his State of the State address did well to highlight those who have been fighting the novel coronavirus’ devastating...
View ArticleColorado business community asks legislature for a timeout on new regulations...
A coalition of business groups pleaded with Colorado lawmakers Tuesday to avoid passing any legislation, however well-intentioned, that would make it more complicated or costly to do business in the...
View ArticleG-7 back steps to deter tax dodging by multinational firms
LONDON — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% in order to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing...
View ArticleDowd: America’s richest don’t pay taxes, and that’s downright tacky
I find this all quite taxing. Infrastructure talks just collapsed, with Republicans scratching their heads, wondering where on earth we could find the money to save our cratering bridges and highways,...
View ArticleOpinion: Coloradans aren’t anti-tax; they just want fair taxes like in Build...
Because of our cumbersome method for enacting tax increases, Coloradans have developed an undeserved reputation as being “anti-tax.” Colorado’s Constitution creates many barriers to this state having a...
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