Subject: Taxes

• Alternative Fuels Guru Out of Gas

  May 29, 2008

• Calling to Collect

  The City of Denver declares war on the state legislature over a telephone bill.

  October 23, 1997

• No Taxation Without Misrepresentation

  A state property-tax goofup means that a poor Colorado county has to pay back a huge oil company.

  January 15, 1998

• The Village People

  Arapahoe County's most aggressive town wants to swallow up the area's prime commercial real estate. Can anything stop Greenwood Village?

  December 17, 1998

• Wisdom of the Ages

  April 4, 2002

• Focus on the Family's nightmare scenario about an Obama victory

  October 27, 2008

• Build wealth! Tax liens on a Tom Martino investment go up for auction

  November 3, 2008

• Feed the Food Bank of the Rockies

  Don't write off 2008 yet. You can still do good for others -- and for this year's tax return -- by donating to Food Bank of the Rockies. Just a buck will buy four meals for the hungry -- with 96 cents of every dollar going directly to the purchase of food, and just a paltry 4 cents to administration. The FBR website contains all the info. -- Tyler Nemkov

  December 29, 2008

• Best Place to Score With a Fifty-Something Whose Ex-Spouse Got the Mercedes

  March 29, 2001

• Best Way to Avoid Standing in Line at City Hall

  April 4, 2002

• Best Place to Draw a Bead With a 1,247-Pound Vintage Cannon

  April 4, 2002

• A Colorado immigration story hits page one of the New York Times

  Yesterday's New York Times switched the national spotlight onto a fascinating story based in Greeley. "Paying Taxes, and Fearing Deportation" focuses on Amalia's Translation and Tax Services, a business that has prepared tax returns for a mostly Hispanic clientele since the '90s. Last October, the Weld County Sheriff's Office, knowing that the Internal Revenue Service requires every worker, whether in this country legally or not, to pay taxes on income earned in the U.S., seized thousands of r

  February 2, 2009

• You want to put a sin tax on chocolate? Burn in hell!

  "Colorado Needs a New Drug (To Raise Taxes On)," an editorial in today's Denver Post, suggests that Colorado has already boosted taxes on cigarettes as much as it can -- so in order to raise the revenue needed to trim the current budget deficit, lawmakers should consider attaching levies to other "vices." Among the suggestions: chocolate. According to the piece's author, who wisely remained anonymous, "A higher tax levied on chocolate just might erase the state's shortfall as we indulge our ne

  February 18, 2009

• A Pain in the Assets

  July 28, 2005

• The Hundred Days' War

  How hard is it to find 90,000 citizens who want a tax cut? Ask Douglas Bruce.

  January 13, 2000

• Smoke Detector

  Anne Landman has dedicated her life to being a pain in the ash. Will it make a difference come election time?

  September 16, 2004

• Fire Sale

  The cost of cigarettes could go up in smoke this November.

  April 15, 2004

• Give Them a Hand

  The city lays all its chips on the table in a risky play for a new hotel.

  May 18, 2000

• Road Warriors

  Boon or boondoggle, Bill Owens's highway plan has to get past Douglas Bruce before it goes anywhere.

  October 21, 1999

• Stretching the Limits

  Limo companies ride out a debate over longer vehicles, safety and lost tax revenues.

  September 16, 1999

• One-Track Minds

  Rail-happy RTD candidates want to solve Denver's traffic nightmare. Are they just spinning their wheels?

  October 29, 1998

• The Money Pit

  Mildred Bennett's lost her home, but she's got a $35,000 consolation prize.

  June 4, 1998

• Home Sick

  Is this crazy, or what? The only way Mildred Bennett can get her house back is to prove she's mentally disabled.

  January 22, 1998

• Someone to Lien On

  January 22, 1998

• Pack Contributions

  Tobacco lobbyists do a smokin' business with politicians.

  October 2, 1997

• Letters

  October 24, 1996

• Off Limits

  October 17, 1996

• Due Unto Others

  Next month, Colorado voters will decide whether the state's $5 billion worth of tax-exempt properties are all charity cases.

  October 10, 1996

• This Property Is Condemned

  The EPA messes with a widow over a Commerce City warehouse and winds up making its own mess.

  August 22, 1996

• Walk Softly and Carry A Big Hockey Stick

  June 13, 1996

• Heaven is a suburb

  The streets aren't paved with gold down in the brand-new city of Lone Tree --yet.

  May 23, 1996

• That Fits the Bill

  Need some special-interest legislation? Here's how this year's session measures up

  May 9, 1996

• Alms for the Not-So-Poor

  A "nonprofit" hospital gets its lucrative office buildings taken off the tax rolls.

  March 7, 1996

• THE BREAKS OF THE GAME

  THE HISTORY OF A TAX LOOPHOLE--AND HOW IT GOT PLUGGED.

  February 14, 1996

• OFF LIMITS

  February 7, 1996

• LETTERS

  January 31, 1996

• A SWEET DEAL

  NEED A TAX BREAK FOR THE NEW YEAR? CONSIDER RAISING BEES, DONKEYS, HAY OR, AS A LAST RESORT, A STINK WITH THE COUNTY ASSESSOR.TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE? FOR A SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPER SEEKING A TAX BREAK, THAT'S NO QUESTION. BUT TAXPAYERS GET STUNG.

  January 3, 1996

• BOWLEN FOR DOLLARS

  DENVER'S FAVORITE CANADIAN MILLIONAIRE WANTS A STADIUM SUBSIDY. HERE'S WHAT HE WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT IT.BRONCO BULLY PAT BOWLEN PLAYS SMASH-MOUTH POLITICS IN HIS QUEST FOR A NEW STADIUM.

  December 20, 1995

• SHADOW OF A DOUBT

  THE DEFECTION OF PHILIP ANSCHUTZ IS JUST THE LATEST RED FLAG IN THE PEPSI CENTER DEAL.

  October 4, 1995

• LET US PAY

  August 30, 1995

• WIN SOME, LOSE SOME

  June 14, 1995

• GIVE ME A BREAK

  May 31, 1995

• THE TAXMAN COMETH

  A PROMINENT COLORADO LEGISLATOR FINALLY PAYS HER DEBT TO SOCIETY.

  December 14, 1994

• RISKY BUSINESS

  THE CITY LOANS $270,000 TO A BUSINESSMAN WHO PILED UP DELINQUENT DEBT.

  November 23, 1994

• DEEP IN THE HEART OF TAXES

  BOULDER WILL VOTE ON A PLAN TO SAVE A VENERABLE THEATER--WITH SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONEY.

  November 2, 1994

• UNECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

  DID A SQUABBLE WITH COLORADO SPRINGS COST FORT COLLINS $300 MILLION?

  September 7, 1994

• MOUTHING OFF

  April 6, 1994

• Colorado tax credit means a $42,000 discount on a new Tesla: Where's my wallet?

  ​It doesn't really look like the sort of car the government would throw money at you to buy. Those, we always assumed, were the sort of cars that would fit in your freezer. But apparently, a state tax credit would indeed allow Colorado residents to buy the new Tesla Roadster -- an electric sports car that does zero to sixty MPH in 3.7 seconds -- for almost 40 percent off the sticker price.

  October 22, 2009

• Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Gov. Ritter's Colorado cash coupons

  Every week it seems like another $300 million must be slashed from the state budget. Even if there is no money left to pay for the 2009 state income tax refunds next year, Governor Ritter should plan to send out one "Colorado Cash" coupon for every $100 worth of state income tax owed by the state. What a helpful reminder to take advantage of all the services that our income taxes make possible! ​ Check out more deals below:

  November 5, 2009

• Attorney General John Suthers has to admit: Medical marijuana can be taxed

  "When I said, 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it,' I didn't mean it like that!"​Attorney General John Suthers has been the high-ranking state official most likely to imply that the sky is falling in relation to medical marijuana. No wonder he cheered a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in the Stacy Clendenin case that aimed to tighten up the description of caregiver -- one that was tossed in Denver District Court when the Board of Health tried to adopt it too hurriedly. Betcha it pained h

  November 17, 2009