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Amendment B: Repeal property tax assessment rate restrictions

Series: Election 2020 | Story 4

For the past few weeks, Colorado television and the internet have been littered with commercials about Amendment B. This amendment seeks to repeal the nearly 40-year-old Gallagher Amendment, a provision in the Colorado constitution used to calculate property tax rates.

As it is now, residential property taxes make up 45% of the overall tax base, while nonresidential properties--primarily businesse...

 
 

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