COLORADO CENTER FOR POLICY STUDIES: Program on Tax Policy

The program on tax policy explores the impacts of Colorado's state and local tax structure on areas such as patterns of growth, economic development, income inequality, local government revenues, and resource use by Coloradans.  Applying basic principles of public finance, as well as comparing Colorado's revenue structure to that of other states reveals areas for potential tax reform as well as costs and benefits of the current system.

• Colorado's State and Local Tax Structure: An Overview

• What Would it Cost to Repeal the Business Personal Property Tax?
  Supporting Tables | Appendix A

• New Technologies and the Cost of Public Services: The Case of Unemployment Insurance in the United States
• Do Errors in Benefits Depend on the Filing Method? Unemployment Insurance in the United States, CCPS Working Paper #5
• Impacts of Colorado's Amendment 21
• The Effects of TABOR on Municipal Governments in Colorado
• "Smart Growth" and Colorado Tax Policies
• TABOR and Today's Economy
• Rainy Day Funds Would Provide Budget Cushion
• Referendum C and D Allow State to Recover
• Why Referendum C and D are Good for the State?