Taxes

Democrats make deal with governor to redirect TABOR refunds to low-income families

Democrats in the Colorado legislature on Tuesday announced a deal with Gov. Jared Polis to make sweeping changes to the state tax code that reduce income taxes and redirect hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer refunds to low-income parents and the middle class.

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Pavlich: Your hard-earned dollars shouldn’t go to Leftist media outlets

Each year, more than $500 million of your hard-earned tax dollars get funneled through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and into the bank account of National Public Radio (NPR), a far-left media outlet dedicated to tearing down America and the values you believe in.

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Colorado businesses responsible for funding statewide recycling program left in the dark, advocates say

As Colorado initiates the rollout of a statewide recycling program, business advocates are warning lawmakers that companies are facing hefty fees they may not be aware of and implementing the initiative may not be realistic heading into 2026, not to mention its price tag amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.  

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Colorado conservatives want a property tax cap. The state’s bipartisan tax commission hates the idea.

In late January, Colorado’s bipartisan tax commission took an informal poll among its 19 members to gauge support for the dozen or so ideas they’d been discussing to deliver tax relief to homeowners.

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2 Colorado counties and RTD use taxpayer dollars on political consultants to generate more tax dollars

As Coloradans brace for massive property tax spikes, some local governments are quietly laying the groundwork for ballot measures that would hike taxes even further, and a loophole in Colorado state law allows them to use your tax dollars to figure out how to get more of your tax dollars.

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