rep. tracy kraft-tharp
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Colorado business group decries veto of aircraft tax break
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The Colorado Aviation Business Association spoke up Thursday about Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veto of a tax break for charter aircraft carriers. The legislation exempting the aircraft owners from paying sales and use taxes could have cost the state budget up to $223,500 a year, according to legislative analysts. Supporters said it would have created jobs…
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Colorado House expels Rep. Steve Lebsock, 52-9
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The Colorado House voted to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock, a Democrat from Thornton, Friday, the first such move since a member was found to take a bribe on a floor of the chamber in 1915. Lebsock left the Capitol as soon as the vote was taken without speaking to the press. Within an hour before…
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Colorado NFIB giddy over latest economic news, but legislature could do more
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Yeah, that’s good, but … That was the reaction of the rarely satisfied Tony Gagliardi, Colorado state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, after his national organization released a report Tuesday heralding economic optimism of its members. Just think of how happy they could be if the legislature would cut them some slack…
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House Speaker Duran sets Tuesday town hall on Colorado’s growth
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Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran is putting on a town hall Tuesday night to chat with the experts and community members about the challenges of the state’s population growth. The state Demographer’s Office said Colorado’s population was about 5 million in 2010 and could reach 8 million by 2040. The town hall is from 7…
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Colorado tech startups get a boost from legislation OK’d by House
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The House approved a bipartisan plan Wednesday to extend and expand incentives for investment in new tech ventures in Colorado. Startups that would benefit include bioscience, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, electronics, engineering and information technology businesses. Under House Bill 1090, the current tax credit of up to $50,000 for investing in a tech startup through the end of this year would…
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Headache relief for Colorado small businesses …
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… and thanks go out to the House Democratic press shop for handing us that headline — via their press release this morning touting House Bill 1216. The bipartisan measure creates a “sales and use tax simplification task force” — essentially, an effort to simplify the complicated rates and rules of sales-tax collection for the state’s small businesses.…
