Far from being nearly tax neutral, the measure has a price tag that will weigh heaviest on renters, immigrants, and minorities.
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Jim Morrissey: Colorado’s stratospheric property tax hikes
Cartoonist Jim Morrissey conjures the image of Colorado’s massive property tax increases pricing homeowners out of Colorado (and planet Earth).
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Opinion: Property tax relief should be linked to local land-use reform
It would ease the tax burden and address needed zoning changes in combination, while respecting the sanctity of local control.
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Democrats plan to send Coloradans $2 billion in taxpayer refunds through a system they’ve blasted as inequitable
Ahead of the 2022 election, Jared Polis and Democrats in the legislature sped up TABOR refund checks and made them flat. This year, they’re reverting to a default system.
Posted inHousing
Colorado lawmakers’ inaction on rising property tax bills stokes another ballot measure arms race
Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats, who control the Capitol, say they are committed to coming up with a long-term fix this year. But with the 2023 legislative session more than halfway over and no public proposal, fiscal policy nonprofits are filling the vacuum.
Posted inHousing
How Colorado homeowners still reeling from the COVID pandemic can apply for financial assistance
The money will help homeowners pay their mortgages, homeowner association fees or liens, utilities, delinquent property taxes and homeowner’s insurance
Posted inHousing
Coloradans can defer payment on a big chunk of their rising property tax bill. Here’s how to do it.
The legislature passed a bill in 2021 allowing Coloradans to defer payment on any increase in their property tax bill over 4% by making it a lien against their home
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Colorado’s high-stakes property tax battle ends dramatically as opposing sides agree to embrace $700M reduction
Colorado’s property tax arms race ended Friday morning after conservative and liberal groups moved to withdraw the ballot measures they were pursuing for the November ballot that would have dramatically altered the tax code. Democratic leaders in the legislature, meanwhile, vowed not to pursue an opposing ballot initiative that would have prevented property tax changes […]
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Property tax arms race involving Colorado power players grips Capitol as fragile deal starts to deteriorate
A property tax arms race involving some of the state’s most powerful people is unfolding behind the scenes at the Colorado Capitol in the final days of the 2022 lawmaking term, jeopardizing a fragile deal unveiled this week. The deal, backed by the governor and negotiated over several weeks, would reduce projected property tax increases […]
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Colorado governor, lawmakers unveil plan to slash property taxes by $700M to head off business group’s ballot measure
Colorado property owners would get a $700 million break on their rising tax bills over the next two years under a plan unveiled Monday by Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers that’s aimed at preventing a business group from pursuing an even larger reduction in November. The legislature, in a deal reached in the final […]