TABOR check

[.455_Hunter]

Are they really doing paper checks for everyone?

Seems like the direct deposit pathway would be used if you had it already established with your normal state tax return.

[eddiememphis]

https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/defau...a_sb233_f1.pdf

Yes. Paper for everyone.

$750 free! ... just pay $2,744,822 in postage and handling!

The included letter sounds like a campaign mailer, as Doc45 points out. The Colorado Republican Party agrees. They filed a complaint with the Secretary of State.

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/col...256e1d6d4.html

"Calling the move a "political stunt," state GOP chair Kristi Burton Brown said in a statement that the governor's message describing the checks - $750 for individual taxpayers and $1,500 for joint filers -"is indistinguishable from a campaign mailer" from Polis, who is running for reelection this year."

"Typically, when the state takes in more money than allowed under TABOR...it's refunded to taxpayers using several methods...This year, however, bipartisan legislation signed by Polis established an additional, one-time mechanism - dubbed the Colorado CashBack by lawmakers - to deliver a portion of the surplus nearly a year ahead of schedule in the checks going out this month... critics contend it's a blatant attempt to curry favor with voters, who start returning mail ballots in mid-October."

""Jared Polis is blatantly using taxpayer dollars to help himself get re-elected," Burton Brown said in a statement..."


https://www.kktv.com/2022/08/03/watc...ado-taxpayers/

The only reason I can find stated is to "combat fraud attempts", because a check is less susceptible to fraud than direct deposit...

https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/27/tabor...-what-to-know/

Even Colorado Public Radio is dubious.

"So taxpayers will be getting these checks this summer, when there's an election just around the corner in the fall. That seems convenient.

Sure is. Governor Polis, who spearheaded the idea at the legislature, has branded it as the Colorado Cashback.

Democrats have taken some criticism from conservatives who say this is just a way to make them look good ahead of the midterms..."