Taxes & Fees
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Just How Much Relief Did the State Special Legislative Session Provide?
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Gov. Jared Polis’s 2024 State of the State
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Commercial Property Tax Impact on Commercial Property Owners and the Colorado Economy
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The Economic Impact of Increased Property Taxes on the Colorado Economy
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Proposition HH Brief: Economic Impact of Taxes Increasing Above Historic Trend
Prop HH would make several changes to state property taxes and changes to state revenue limits, including: reducing property tax rates, creating two new subclasses of residential property effective in 2025, providing funds to local governments to make up for decreased property tax revenues (referred to as backfilling), creating limit on local government property tax revenue, increasing the cap on state revenue (Prop HH Cap) allowing the state to retain revenue up to the newly created cap, that would otherwise be required to refund to residents under the Colorado Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR).
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Proposition HH Issue Brief: Education
![Proposition HH: The Taxpayer Dilemma](https://commonsenseinstituteco.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/feat_0823PropHH-1080x675.jpg)
Proposition HH: The Taxpayer Dilemma
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2022 Colorado State Ballot Proposition #121: “State Income Tax Rate Reduction”
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Colorado’s 2022 Legislative Session and Free Enterprise
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Colorado’s Economic Recovery Through the Lens of Taxable Sales
Colorado economic activity as proxied by taxable sales, generated from the purchase of taxable goods and services, has more than fully recovered. Through the end of 2021, this crucial driver of both state and local sales tax revenue has grown well beyond pre-pandemic levels, even after adjusting for population growth and recent inflation.