Bill to raise short-term rental tax rates suffers overwhelming defeat
A bill that sought to quadruple tax-assessment rates for Colorado owners of active short-term rental properties died at its first legislative committee hearing Tuesday, even…
Taxes
10-point property tax commission recommendation includes flexible tax-revenue cap
A state commission on Friday recommended a 10-point plan to reduce tax pain caused by rising property valuations, including continuation of soon-to-expire residential tax breaks,…
Four long-term property tax fixes rising to top of special commission’s discussions
Rather than capping property-tax increases, a legislatively appointed commission is looking at making it less painful for state residents to pay property taxes through several…
Property tax commission narrowing in on proposals that differ from ballot initiatives
Members of a commission tasked with developing a long-term solution to Colorado’s spiking property-tax values heard from proponents of competing ballot measures on the subject…
Short-term rental taxation: The statewide issue riling mountain-town business leaders
While the Colorado Legislature is considering a host of bills this session that will impact businesses statewide, one measure — on short-term rentals — is…
Legislators looking to make sales-tax remittance easier for businesses
Seven years after Colorado began planning how to implement a one-stop sales-tax calculation and remittance system for retailers and three-and-a-half years after that system went…
Polis offers ambitious goals for housing, environment, taxes in State of the State
Gov. Jared Polis spanned the political spectrum in his State of the State Address Thursday, calling for big transit spending and more environmental-justice regulations but…
Polis lobbies property-tax commission to consider land value tax
Gov. Jared Polis is pushing Colorado’s recently formed Commission on Property Tax to study potential adoption of an obscure taxation system used in less than…
Colorado property tax commission meets, hears forecast on property values
While Colorado property valuations spiked enough this year to necessitate a ballot initiative, a special session and a commission to study them, that commission learned…
New Commission on Property Tax has its appointees — and some surprises in its makeup
Colorado legislative and organizational leaders on Wednesday announced their appointments to the newly formed Commission on Property Tax — a group that includes the CEO…