What is an opportunity zone?
San Juan County in its entirety is an Opportunity Zone. Opportunity Zones (OZ) were enacted as part of the 2017 tax reform package (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) to address uneven economic recovery and persistent lack of growth that have left many communities across the country behind. In the broadest sense, the newly enacted federal OZ program provides a federal tax incentive for investors to invest in low-income urban and rural communities through favorable treatment of reinvested capital gains and forgiveness of tax on new capital gains.
The Opportunity Fund creates an additional incentive to invest in San Juan County by deferring and possibly eliminating the capital gain tax on long-term investments. Investors can transfer unrealized capital gains into Opportunity Funds putting the full value of the capital gain to work. Some investors have a social investment drive – they want their capital to improve the communities they know and love.
Opportunity Zones help address a number of challenges:
More details regarding the Opportunity Zone can be found at choosecolorado.com/opportunity-zones, or by contacting Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado (https://region9edd.org).
Benefit of an Opportunity Zone Investment
Enterprise Zone Tax Credits are tax incentives to encourage businesses to stay, locate, and expand in designated economically distressed areas of the state. Colorado's Enterprise Zone (EZ) program provides certain state income tax credits and several other incentives for private enterprise to expand or for new businesses to locate within a state EZ area. A business located within these boundaries may be eligible for EZ tax credits, including capital investment tax credits, job tax credits, job training, research and development tax credits, and other credits and incentives. All of San Juan County is designated as an enhanced enterprise zone areas which means businesses are able to earn additional tax credits when adding net new employees.
Enterprise Zone Program | Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Rural Jump Start: Rural Jump Start is a program for out of state and new businesses that relocate to a Jump-Start Zone by offering incentives through tax relief including credits, exemptions and refunds from state income tax, state sales and use tax, and county and municipal personal property taxes. Employees of new businesses receive a tax credit for 100% of state income taxes on their wages for work in the rural jump-start zones. All of San Juan County is a Rural Jump-Start County.
Rural Jump-Start Program | Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Silverton Area Chamber of Commerce
chamber@silvertoncolorado.com
https://silvertoncolorado.com
(970) 387-5654
Town of Silverton
mgreen@silverton.co.us
https://www.colorado.gov/townofsilverton
(970) 387-5522
San Juan County
admin@sanjuancolorado.us
https://www.colorado.gov/sanjuan
(970) 387-5766
Citizens State Bank
https://www.csbcolorado.com/
(970) 387-5502
Real Estate Agencies
For listings email smoore@sanjuandevelopment.com or call the Silverton Visitors Center (970) 387-5654
Visit the Town of Silverton at:
https://townofsilverton.colorado.gov/planning
Or San Juan County at:
https://sanjuancounty.colorado.gov/planner
Bevan Harris
Building Inspector & Code Enforcement Officer
PO Box 250 (U.S. Mail)
1360 Greene Street (FedEx/UPS)
Silverton, CO 81433
970-880-0387 (direct)
bharris@silverton.co.us
Lucy Mulvihill
Community Development Coordinator, Planning Department
PO Box 250
1360 Greene Street
Silverton, CO 81433
970-387-5522
970-946-9408 (direct)
planning@silverton.co.us
Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado
https://www.region9edd.org
(970) 247-9621
Colorado Department of Local Affairs
Colorado Department of Transportation
Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Colorado Procurement Technical Assistance Center
Colorado Rural Workforce Consortium
Four Corners Office of Resource Efficiency
Pueblo Community College Southwest
Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs (SCAPE)
Southwest Colorado Community College
Southwest Colorado Council of Governments
Southwest Colorado Regional Blueprint
Southwest Colorado Small Business Development Center