2025 legislative review: Business wins, a few losses and more battles to come
The 2025 legislative session was one where business leaders engaged early — rallying against the first bill to get a Senate committee hearing — and…
Taxes
Health-care bills, data-center tax breaks die as they run out of time
Two controversial health-care bills that had been priorities of Gov. Jared Polis’ administration but also had garnered tremendous pushback because of their potential to raise…
Two tax-break expansions overcoming obstacles, advancing through Legislature
Despite a budget deficit that nixed most other bills that reduced money to the state government, renewals and expansions of two existing tax credits appear…
Sponsors gut bill that sought to shrink tax cuts — but promise to restart fight in 2026
Sponsors significantly pared down a bill Monday that had sought to roll back tax breaks for insurers, software purchasers and enterprise-zone investors — but vowed…
Bill would curb tax breaks for insurers, software and enterprise-zone investment
Colorado legislators are considering a rewrite of the state’s tax code that would curtail incentives now offered to certain industries — including telecommunications and oil…
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 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…
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,…