Colorado

State Tax Limitations Inhibit Public School Funding And Educational Equity

As the first day of school approaches, remember that the quality of a child’s education is largely determined by where their public school is located...

August 19, 2021Jake Fisher

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Colorado and Texas Voters Face Big Tax Questions This Year

Like most states, Colorado and Texas do not have legislative or gubernatorial elections in 2019. Still, their voters are facing tricky, and potentially far-reaching, tax...

October 28, 2019Richard C. Auxier

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Post-TCJA, Your State Should Consider a Refundable Child Tax Credit

Some low- and middle-income families in Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Dakota are facing state income tax hikes. And the larger the family, generally...

November 15, 2018Richard C. Auxier Elaine Maag

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2018 Voters Faced a Slew of Confusing Revenue Measures and Rejected Most Tax Increases

With so much to follow in the midterm elections, it is easy to lose sight of a bumper crop of tax-related ballot measures . But...

November 9, 2018Vanessa Williamson

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Fixing Connecticut’s Budget Woes? Tread Carefully When Implementing New Fiscal Controls

Late last October, Governor Dan Malloy approved a two-year $40.2 billion budget for Connecticut more than 100 days after the fiscal year began. A strongly...

March 9, 2018Kim S. Rueben

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

The Case of Oregon’s Bicycle Excise Tax

Or: If you like it, then you might just pay a tax on it.

Oregon, one of five states with no sales tax, just passed an excise tax on bicycles to help fund trail maintenance and improvement. That decision generated a good bit of controversy, and as a bicycle-riding, trail-loving taxpayer, I wondered why a bicycle tax that supports bicycle trail use is so contentious.

August 2, 2017Renu Zaretsky

State and Local Issues: TaxVox

Colorado’s ballot battle over health care may be the first of many

Earlier this month, voters across the country decided a number of state initiatives that affect both the services they receive and the taxes they pay...

November 29, 2016Kim S. Rueben

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No Breaks, Less Sugar, and More Refunds

Texas Governor Greg Abbott says “no” to a tax break for big corporations. The Republican just vetoed a bill aimed at expanding a tax incentive for wind farms and petrochemical firms along the Gulf Coast. Subsidy backers claim it helps the firms generate jobs, but Abbott doesn’t think it’s worth the

June 22, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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On Exercises in Futility

The drive to a Highway Funding bill heads toward a cliff: The sequel. Congressional Democrats are digging in their heels and insisting that Republicans find a long-term solution to highway funding. That would force the GOP to come up with either tens of billions for a long-term bill or

June 5, 2015Renu Zaretsky

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On Some States of Business Taxation and a US Carbon Tax Swap

In Nevada, the GOP governor ’ s $1 billion business tax hike wins support. The state senate passed Governor Brian Sandoval’s plan to shift the state’s flat $200 business license fee to a version of a gross receipts tax. According to the measure, which would raise nearly $1 billion over 2 years, the

April 23, 2015Renu Zaretsky