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received notices of value two years ago. Since then, residential properties in the Denver metro area typically saw value increases between 35% and 45%, a group of county assessors from around the Front Range announced April 26.

In notably affluent Douglas County, residential properties saw increases between 30% and 60%, with a median of 47%.

Colorado law requires assessors to value properties every two years, according to Douglas County’s website. The property valuation that homeowners recently received is based on June 2022 data, near the recent peak in the real-estate market.

So even though home prices have declined since then, property values reflect last year’s exceptional highs. And when property values increase, the tax bills property owners pay also go up — even if the tax rates themselves don’t change.xa

Democrats rolled out the Prop HH proposal to potentially blunt the impact of high property values.

What Coloradans pay in property taxes depends in part on the property values — such as the value of a home — and the tax rates set by local government entities like counties and school districts. (Property tax rates are officially called “mill levies.”)

Property taxes partly fund county governments, but they also fund fire districts, library districts and other local entities.

Because a drop in property taxes would affect those local entities, part of the Democrats’ plan was to include “backfill” revenue to fire districts, water districts, ambulance and hospital districts in areas of the state that aren’t growing as fast as others by dedicating a portion of the state TABOR surplus to backfill, according to the governor’s office.

That’s a reference to Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which limits the amount of money that the state government can collect and spend, or save, each year.

Revenue above the limit — often called a “TABOR surplus” — generally gets refunded to taxpayers. TABOR is an amendment to the Colorado Constitution.

The official who heads Douglas County’s property valuation office, Assessor Toby Daamisch, felt the potential tax relief was too small and took issue with the fact that the Democrats’ proposal would affect TABOR refunds.

What relief would look like Damisch provided an example scenario of the effect that Prop HH, proposed by the state legislature’s passing of SB 23-303, would have on homeowners’ tax payments.

An example home in Highlands Ranch, valued at roughly $583,000 in 2022, paid a tax of about $3,700, according to Damisch.

Now, that property is valued at about $857,000. Under current circumstances, the home’s property tax payment would total about $5,200, according to the county’s data. That’s about a 40% increase from before.

Under SB23-303’s policies, that tax payment would fall to about $4,900, which would instead be about a 33% increase from before, according to the county’s data.

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