Archive: https://archive.today/vgplV From the post: >>Lakewood is about face a costly reckoning with the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights — to the tune of more than $42 million. That’s the amount the state’s fifth-largest city has calculated it owes to dozens of cell phone carriers and telecommunications companies it wrongfully taxed for years. The bill is now coming due after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled last year that the city had violated TABOR, a state constitutional amendment, by levying a business and occupation tax without first obtaining voter approval. The $42,154,189 the city must return to 177 companies represents more than 13% of the city’s 2026 budget — an amount that has Lakewood Councilman Jacob LaBure clenching his fists in frustration.