Legislators considering bills to reduce “trigger audits”
Multiple medium- to large-sized companies say that they’ve been targeted for audits over and over by groups of a dozen or more municipalities in recent…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Packaging producers face deadline to register for new recycling program
In just two weeks, any substantially sized company that produces packaging sold within Colorado — from plastic to glass to wood — must be registered…
Could an election-reform initiative really help the business community?
To the average business owner struggling to keep up with inflation and new regulations, electoral reform may not seem like an issue that should be…
State regulators on verge of passing new cumulative-impact requirements on oil-and-gas projects
Colorado regulators are debating an “enormous” set of regulations that will require consideration of the cumulative impacts of any new or expanded oil-and-gas project on…
Bill signing, initiative withdrawal sets November ballot at 14 measures
Colorado’s November ballot took its final 14-initiative shape Wednesday as Gov. Jared Polis signed a tax-cut bill resulting in the withdrawal of two high-profile initiatives…
Here’s the details of the other tax break legislators passed during the special session
Colorado legislators who focused heavily on cutting property taxes for homeowners during this week’s special session also approved one other tax break — one specifically…
Legislature sends tax break to governor as ballot proponents prepare to withdraw Initiatives 50 and 108
Colorado legislators on Thursday finished the task of sending a “small but very meaningful” expansion of a previously approved tax break to Gov. Jared Polis,…
With two key votes, legislators are poised to back brokered special-session tax cut
Colorado senators Wednesday advanced a property-tax cut and nixed a separate measure that could have made it harder to pass future statewide tax breaks, despite…
Property-tax-cut bill sponsors soften revenue caps but fend off major changes
Sponsors of the special legislative session’s centerpiece property-tax-reduction bill amended it to make it easier for local governments to grow more quickly after economic slowdowns…
Legislators kill most special-session bills but advance bigger tax cut, constitutional change
Colorado legislators winnowed 13 property-tax bills down to just four during the first day of a special session Monday but put a bill at the…