Policy Updates

Census 2020: Citizenship Question

Jun 27, 2019

In 2018, the Secretary of Commerce proposed a mandatory question to ask respondents about their citizenship on the 2020 Census. The stated goal of including the question was to collect data on immigration status to...

Final IRS Rules on State Giving Tax Credits

Jun 20, 2019

The federal Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a final rule on June 13, 2019 regarding federal tax treatment of charitable giving when donations also generate state and local tax credits...

Modernize the Exemption for Nonprofits' Occasional Sales

Jun 13, 2019

Background Even though Colorado law allows charitable nonprofits to be exempt from state-collected sales taxes on items they buy, nonprofits must collect these sales taxes on most goods and services they sell.

Support Census Funding for Colorado's Nonprofits

Jun 10, 2019

2019 Colorado Legislative Session

May 3, 2019

We track state bills affecting our nonprofit community. These bills include, but are not limited to:

Support voter approved revenue for education and transportation!

Apr 25, 2019

The Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR) amendment requires voter approval for tax policy changes that increase state revenues. It also limits annual growth in state revenues to the sum of the rates of inflation plus...

Sales Tax Rules and South Dakota vs. Wayfair

Apr 8, 2019

The Colorado General Assembly is considering legislation to re-define how sales taxes are collected and remitted by businesses and nonprofit organizations. If HB 19-1240 passes, then in-state and out-of state businesses...

New Taxes on Transportation Benefits and Unrelated Business Activities

Mar 4, 2019

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) includes new provisions that directly impact nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations. Although nonprofits are mostly exempt from federal income taxation, a few new...

Federal Shutdown Survey

Feb 14, 2019

If Congress does not pass legislation to extend particular spending bills and resolve a dispute over funding for a U.S. Mexico border wall, then the federal government will shut down after Feb. 15 for the second time...

Myths about the Change to the Johnson Amendment in the 2018 Tax Bill

Dec 11, 2018

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