Special session could bring big changes to insurers’ taxes
Colorado legislators who tried unsuccessfully during the regular session to raise the bar for insurers to receive a substantial tax reduction related to their workforce…
Taxes
Officials: Federal tax changes create $955 million state budget shortfall
Colorado’s budget now stands $955 million short of being able to cover expenses that legislators approved for this fiscal year — a hole created by…
Business leaders unsure if overtime/tip tax-break initiative will benefit them
As a conservative advocacy group moves ahead with a ballot measure to bar state taxation of tips and overtime pay, leaders in Colorado business sectors…
Hotel, tourism industries watching for potential lodging-tax increases
As tourism-dependent Colorado communities face headwinds from economic uncertainty and federal trade policies, they also face a choice: Whether to ask voters to raise lodging…
Colorado special session appears imminent following passage of federal spending bill
Passage Thursday of the budget-cutting “One Big Beautiful Bill” essentially mandates that the Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session this summer…
Polis signs several bills that businesses had fought
By inking new laws Thursday that make it easier for Coloradans with disabilities and with wage-theft claims to demand damages from businesses, Gov. Polis completed…
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…
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…