{"id":21348,"date":"2020-02-09T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T23:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63076"},"modified":"2020-02-09T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T23:06:03","slug":"colorado-aims-to-undo-conservation-easement-tax-credit-mess-from-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/colorado-aims-to-undo-conservation-easement-tax-credit-mess-from-10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado aims to undo conservation easement tax-credit mess from 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo of Elk Mountain Ranch, which received $580,000 to conserve all 637 acres. It was one of the first successful conservation easements in Grand County in several years, due in part to the distrust of the system from previous corruption. <\/strong>
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Colorado lawmakers are set to consider a proposal<\/a> next week that could refund hundreds of millions of dollars to people who innocently bought into the state\u2019s conservation easement tax credit program, only to see officials dismiss the tax credits as worthless and tag them with hefty bills.<\/p>\n

The individuals bought the credits from landowners who had received them after protecting millions of acres of property from future development, or their representatives.<\/p>\n

But revenue officials eventually said the land wasn\u2019t worth what the landowners<\/a> claimed and negated more than $220 million in credits, leaving the buyers on the hook for the tab.<\/p>\n

That was a decade ago.<\/p>\n

After years of public hearings, focus groups and stakeholder conferences, Sens. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, and Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, seek to undo the mess and ensure those individuals who unknowingly bought into the program are repaid. House co-sponsors include Dylan Roberts, D-Steamboat Springs, and James Wilson, R-Salida.<\/p>\n

The bill is largely the result of a task force empaneled from a bill Sonnenberg successfully pushed last year. The leaders of the task force \u2014 a landowner caught in the tax-credit debacle and the director of a land trust that managed many easements \u2014 were frequently at odds on the issue but worked together to find solutions.<\/p>\n

Read more at DenverPost.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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