by taxnick on June 6, 2011
A 45-day tax amnesty allowing people to catch up on overdue taxes while saving some fines and penalties has been signed by Colorado’s governor.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the measure into law Friday morning. He joined legislative budget writers to laud the amnesty, a 45-day period from October to November that will allow anyone who owes [...]
by taxnick on May 23, 2011
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a Republican proposal to reinstate a tax break on agricultural products for farmers and ranchers.
Hickenlooper signed the bill into law Monday at a business in Sterling.
The tax break applies to pesticides, animal medicine and other livestock products that farmers and ranchers buy. A law passed last year suspended those tax exemptions [...]
by taxnick on May 5, 2011
The Colorado House on Wednesday moved forward on a proposal that eliminates a law to collect sales taxes from out-of-state online retailers, a measure that drew the ire of Republicans last year and prompted a federal judge to block it.
The measure passed on a voice vote Wednesday and still needs one more vote before it [...]
by taxnick on January 26, 2011
A federal judge has granted a request to block a Colorado law affecting larger out-of-state, online retailers.
The law would require such retailers who don’t collect state sales tax to send their customers an annual notice of how much tax the customers owe to Colorado. It also requires retailers to provide the state with a list [...]
by taxnick on March 8, 2010
Online retail giant Amazon.com notified web-based affiliate businesses across Colorado on Monday that it is dropping them in response to an eight-day-old state law applying state sales tax to such purchases.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has a national network of bloggers and Internet-based businesses that generate commissions themselves by driving sales from links on their [...]