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Article: STATE SUED OVER TAX-RATE FREEZE ; Law to freeze property tax rates to raise money for schools called tax hike
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- December 14, 2007
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DENVER - A conservative think tank sued the Colorado Department
of Education Thursday in an effort to overturn a property tax-rate
freeze signed into law this year by Gov. Bill Ritter.
The Independence Institute, which filed the class-action lawsuit
on behalf of five property owners throughout the state and the Mesa
County Board of Commissioners, argues that the freeze is a property
tax hike enacted illegally without voter approval. It asks the
Denver District Court to declare the action a violation of the state
constitution and to refund property owners who overpaid their taxes
because of it, along with 10 percent interest.
The 2007 School Finance Act contained a provision that froze ...