DENVER - Colorado voters will be asked in November whether the state can retain an estimated $58 million in recreational marijuana taxes that have been collected this fiscal year.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill Thursday morning that puts the question on the ballot.
Voters authorized a 10 percent sales tax and 15 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana in 2013.
But a never-before-triggered rule under the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights means the state will have to refund all of the money generated by those taxes in the 2014-15 fiscal year that ends June 30.
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