Is end of Democratic House supermajority needed to restore balance to business debates?
While politicos are focused on eight or nine races to see if Democrats keep their Colorado House supermajority in the Nov. 5 election, maybe the…
Legislative Session
Five key Colorado Senate races have major business implications
Democrats need to flip just one seat in the Nov. 5 election to ramp their control of the Colorado Senate up from a majority into…
Legislators have a business tax-break plan — and opposition to it
After considering several options to reduce the business-personal-property tax burden, Colorado legislators appear interested in backing a plan that would nix a rarely used tax…
Legislators favor lighter touch to regulating business audits contracted by cities
Given the options of taking an aggressive or conservative approach to combatting “trigger audits,” Colorado legislators appear to have chosen the latter. The Sales and…
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…
A look at some of the other bills coming in this week’s special legislative session
A legislative session called by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to pass a specific brokered property-tax-cut bill is likely to include consideration of at least a…