Results for Proposed Initiative #178

Ballot Title Setting Board
2023-2024

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

A reduction to the state income tax by 9.09%, thereby reducing state revenue, which will reduce funding for state expenditures that include but are not limited to education, health care policy and financing, and higher education by an estimated $1.3 billion in tax revenue, by a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes to reduce the state income tax rate from 4.40% to 4.00%, which will result in the estimated change in income taxes owed by individuals as identified in the table that follows:

Initiative 178
Change in Income Taxes Owed by Income Category

Income Categories* Current Average
Income Tax Owed
Proposed Average
Income Tax Owed
Proposed Change
in Average
Income Tax Owed
if Passed
+ or -
$25,000 or less $83 $76 -$7
$25,001 - $50,000 $784 $713 -$71
$50,001 - $100,000 $1,899 $1,726 -$173
$100,001 - $200,000 $4,169 $3,790 -$379
$200,001 - $500,000 $9,241 $8,401 -$840
$500,001 - $1,000,000 $18,733 $17,030 -$1,703
$1,000,001 - $2,000,000 $29,888 $27,171 -$2,717
$2,000,001 - $5,000,000 $49,465 $44,968 -$4,497
*Adjusted Gross Income reported to the federal Internal Revenue Service

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be a reduction to the state income tax by 9.09%, thereby reducing state revenue, which will reduce funding for state expenditures that include but are not limited to education, health care policy and financing, and higher education by an estimated $1.3 billion in tax revenue, by a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes to reduce the state income tax rate from 4.40% to 4.00%, which will result in the estimated change in income taxes owed by individuals as identified in the table that follows:?

Initiative 178
Change in Income Taxes Owed by Income Category

Income Categories* Current Average
Income Tax Owed
Proposed Average
Income Tax Owed
Proposed Change
in Average
Income Tax Owed
if Passed
+ or -
$25,000 or less $83 $76 -$7
$25,001 - $50,000 $784 $713 -$71
$50,001 - $100,000 $1,899 $1,726 -$173
$100,001 - $200,000 $4,169 $3,790 -$379
$200,001 - $500,000 $9,241 $8,401 -$840
$500,001 - $1,000,000 $18,733 $17,030 -$1,703
$1,000,001 - $2,000,000 $29,888 $27,171 -$2,717
$2,000,001 - $5,000,000 $49,465 $44,968 -$4,497
*Adjusted Gross Income reported to the federal Internal Revenue Service

Hearing March 7, 2024

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Board members: Theresa Conley, Kurt Morrison, Ed DeCecco
Hearing adjourned 1:45 PM.

* Unofficially captioned "State Income Tax Reduction" by legislative staff for tracking purposes. This caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.