{"id":2455313,"date":"2020-03-03T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/taxing-times-for-aspen-old-timers\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:33:05","slug":"taxing-times-for-aspen-old-timers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/taxing-times-for-aspen-old-timers\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing times for Aspen old-timers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Well, folks! It\u2019s that time of year again! Your 2019 property taxes are due and up and up they continue to climb! Each year, for Aspen old-timers, the property taxes become an increasing financial burden, especially if they are on a fixed income and own their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Colorado provides a \u201chomestead exemption,\u201d which works for eastern Colorado but not for Aspen! What sticks in our craw is many old-timers pay almost as much as the Pitkin County commissioners combined! Yet their incomes are far less. Where is the equity? Or the justice?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s a struggle to pay high taxes if you are on a fixed income, especially in Aspen, that is for sure! So if you wish, in Aspen to stay, just shut up and taxes pay. And don\u2019t you fuss or cuss because you can leave on a RFTA (Roaring Fork we Tax Away) bus! There is no free bus. I pay $700 a year in RFTA taxes alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jim Markalunas<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/taxing-times-for-aspen-old-timers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, folks! It\u2019s that time of year again! Your 2019 property taxes are due and up and up they continue to climb! Each year, for Aspen old-timers, the property taxes become an increasing financial burden, especially if they are on a fixed income and own their home. Colorado provides a \u201chomestead exemption,\u201d which works for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 12:30:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455349,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455313\/revisions\/2455349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}