By Anya Moore | Denver Gazette
For the third time in five years, Jefferson County’s elected officials are asking voters to allow the local government to spend all of the revenue that it collects above the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights limit, thereby eliminating refunds to taxpayers.
For fiscal year 2024, that refund amount is estimated to be $54.4 million.
Last year, the county refunded $39.4 million to roughly 210,000 property taxpayers.
The county’s voters rejected the idea twice — in 2019 and 2022 — but the county’s commissioners this month insisted that, after “engaging” with the public through “both qualitative and quantitative research,” voters need to decide the question again.