Category: Legislation
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Landlords: 25 months to register their rental units with city
From the Coloradoan Fort Collins City Council and city staff are taking the right approach in emphasizing safety for renters over punishment of property owners. Tuesday, City Council voted 6-0, with Council member Ben Manvel absent, to approve an ordinance that would allow property owners time to bring their buildings into compliance with city standards…
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Colorado law adds better regulation on QI’s
DENVER—The Colorado State Assembly passed a new law this month that regulates qualified intermediaries and other 1031 exchange facilitators. “To protect taxpayers who engage exchange facilitators, exchange facilitators should meet certain requirements and follow certain procedures,” the bill states. With it, Colorado becomes the third state to enact some kind of regulation of exchange facilitators,…
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Estate Tax Proposal Moves Forward
Earlier this year, President Obama included such an approach in his FY 2010 budget blueprint. Last week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) also adopted that approach in legislation (S. 722) he introduced to make permanent some of the tax cuts enacted by President Bush in 2001. Without Congressional action this year, the estate…
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NMHC Campaign Opposes Carried Interest Tax Increase
NMHC has rolled out an aggressive lobbying campaign to oppose proposed changes in the taxation of carried interest (i.e., “the promote”) after President Obama’s budget blueprint proposed a 160 percent tax increase on carried interest beginning in 2011—increasing the tax from the current capital gains rate of 15 percent to ordinary income tax rates, which…
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Fort Collins City Council Candidates Tackle Occupancy Ordinance
With elections fast approaching, City Council candidates from District 5 addressed the so-called “you and two” law. District 5 comprises a region in west central Fort Collins, a region that includes neighborhoods around CSU. Read more of their comments…
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In-State tuition and Immigration
Illegal immigrants will be allowed to receive in-state tuition provided they seek citizenship. Senator Chris Roamer, D-Denver, will add this requirement to his own bill along with other caveats. Read more in the Denver Post