Oregon Taxes

Who pays state and local taxes?

Read an analysis of who pays Oregon's taxes (pdf), including the effects of the personal and corporate revenue measures approved by Oregon voters in January 2010. For more information about the effects of the revenue measures, see A Step Toward Balance: Measures 66 and 67 move Oregon closer to a tax system based on ability to pay, October 12, 2009.

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Oregon's income taxes on poor and low income families

Working Poor Oregonians Pay More in Income Taxes Than Poor in Most Other States, November 15, 2011

Oregon summary, from The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2010, by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), November 15, 2011.

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Oregon's Kicker

The 2007 Kicker: Wrongheaded, Unjust, Costly, and a Federal Tax Increase, October 26, 2007. Income Tax Kickers Disproportionately Benefit Multistate Corporations and Wealthy Oregonians, a distributional analysis of the projected 2005-07 corporate and personal income tax kickers, March 28, 2006. "In Oregon, where the women are strong and the men are good looking, the typical taxpayer is about half-average," June 5, 2001.

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Tax breaks and loopholes

Oregon Tax Breaks: Hidden Spending & Misplaced Priorities (pdf), June 2003, a training manual for popular education workshops.

The Great American Jobs Scam:
Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation

by Greg LeRoy

In the Great American Jobs Scam, Greg LeRoy, founder and director of Good Jobs First, exposes how corporations receive big tax breaks and other taxpayer subsidies by saying they will create or retain jobs, but then fail to deliver. These job scams drain budgets for schools and other public services. LeRoy describes common-sense reforms to end these abusive practices and make economic development really work.

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Capital Gains Taxes

AOI and Conerly Capital Gains Claims (pdf), OCPP memorandum to Oregon AFL-CIO president Tim Nesbitt, April 20, 2005. Analysis of Associated Oregon Industries' 2005 capital gains report, prepared for AOI by William Conerly. Includes an analysis of the AOI/Conerly report by Len Burman, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Fellow, Urban Institute.

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