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Publications about personal income tax

April 16, 2012Blog PostOregon In Shameful Company This Tax Day
April 16, 2012CenterPointsThe Forgotten Tax Day Story
April 12, 2012Fact SheetOregon Income Taxes Reach into Poverty
April 12, 2012Fact SheetTax Facts That Matter: 2012 Edition
January 27, 2012CenterPointsFamilies Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck Need to Know the EITC Will Be There
January 25, 2012Issue BriefUndocumented Workers Are Taxpayers, Too
January 2, 2012Central Oregonian (Prineville)Living in poverty? Oregon is still going to tax you
December 27, 2011News ReleaseNew Year Brings $118 Million Tax Cut for Oregon's Wealthiest
November 20, 2011Register GuardEditorial: How the Poor Pay Taxes
November 17, 2011Blog Post455 Million Reasons to Say "Thank You" to Voters
November 15, 2011Fact SheetOregon Income Taxes Reach Into Poverty
November 15, 2011News ReleaseWorking Poor Oregonians Pay More in Income Taxes Than Poor in Most Other States
October 8, 2011The Statesman JournalMeasures 66, 67 averted deeper cuts in state
September 21, 2011Blog PostOne Chart Shows Obama Is Right About "Buffett Rule"
September 20, 2011Blog PostThe Tea Party Zone
August 31, 2011CenterPointsNarrow the Income Gap to Lift the Economy
August 26, 2011News ReleaseRevenue, Not Spending, Is Budget Concern - Extending Temporary Tax Measure Should Be Option
August 11, 2011News ReleaseCorporate-Funded Study Says Oregon Has Nation's Fifth Lowest Business Taxes
August 10, 2011Blog PostMillionaires pay no federal income taxes
August 8, 2011KPOJ "Carl in the Morning"New study shows the rich aren't leaving Oregon because of higher taxes
August 4, 2011Blog PostSorry, Oregon Business Council and ECONorthwest, but the rich stay put despite tax increases
August 4, 2011News ReleaseRich Oregonians Stay Put After Tax Increases
June 17, 2011Blog PostHurry and make money by grabbing your share of leaking subsidy
June 14, 2011ReportThe Four Flaws of a Capital Gains Income Tax Cut
June 6, 2011Blog PostJune 7: A Date That Will Live in Fiscal and Economic Infamy
June 6, 2011KPOJ "Carl in the Morning"More and more Oregon millionaires
June 2, 2011Blog PostOregon’s Mushrooming Millionaires
May 24, 2011CenterPointsWill Lawmakers Prioritize Oregon’s Middle Class?
May 12, 2011Blog PostState Economic Report Undercuts Loophole Lobby’s Call for Special, Speculator Tax Cut
April 29, 2011CenterPointsTrade the Kicker for a Boot That Stomps on the Middle Class? No Thanks
April 25, 2011Statesman JournalOregon Tax Credits Face Day of Reckoning
April 15, 2011Fact SheetTax Facts That Matter
March 3, 2011Fact SheetSB 349 Helps Working Families Get Ahead
January 26, 2011The OregonianRespect Oregonians' historic "yes" vote
January 25, 2011CenterPointsRespect Oregonians' Historic "Yes" Vote
January 24, 2011Earned Income Tax Credit throughout Oregon
January 12, 2011Forest Grove News-TimesA tax cut that bleeds revenue and risks jobs
January 7, 2011Citizens For Tax Justice BlogMore on the Journal's Bogus Migration Story
December 5, 2010CenterPointsA Tax Cut That Bleeds Revenue and Penalizes Work
November 16, 2010Salem-News.comOregonians Call on Congress to Let Bush-Era High-Income Tax Cuts Expire
November 16, 2010News ReleaseOregonians Call On Congress to Let Bush-Era High-Income Tax Cuts Expire
November 4, 2010Beaverton Valley TimesIt's a matter of priorities for Oregon Legislature
November 3, 2010CenterPointsSmall Businesses Need Customers, Not Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
September 20, 2010Fact SheetEarned Income Tax Credit throughout Oregon
August 24, 2010News ReleaseLimiting Itemized Deductions That Mostly Benefit the Well-Off Would Help Oregon Address Its Revenue Woes, Report Shows
April 29, 2010Salem-News.comOregon Still Among Minority of States That Tax Poor Families' Wages
April 29, 2010News ReleaseOregon Still Among Minority of States That Tax Poor Families’ Wages
April 29, 2010Fact SheetWorking Poor and Near-Poor Families in Oregon Are Hit Harder by State Income Taxes Than Those in Most Other States
April 14, 2010ReportTax Day Reality Check
April 14, 2010News ReleaseOregon Taxes and Spending Have Remained in Line With Oregonians’ Pocketbooks for Three Decades
February 1, 2010CenterPointsA Revenue Reservoir to Achieve Fiscal Stability
January 28, 2010The NationTrue Populism
January 27, 2010New York TimesVoters in Oregon Approve Tax Increases
November 4, 2009News ReleaseOregon Among Few States That Tax Income of Poor Families
November 3, 2009News ReleaseOCPP Charts Simple Explanations of Measures 66 and 67
November 2, 2009CenterPointsThe Case for Progressive Taxation
November 2, 2009FlowchartWhich Oregonians pay more under Measure 66?
October 12, 2009Issue BriefA Step Toward Balance
October 12, 2009CenterPointsOregon Moves Closer to a Tax System Based on Ability to Pay
September 25, 2009News ReleaseStatement by OCPP Executive Director Chuck Sheketoff on Likely Ballot Measures: Yes Means Yes, No Means Trouble
September 2, 2009CenterPointsHealth Care Reform and the Value of Work
August 4, 2009News ReleaseNew Poll Shows Most Oregonians Back Legislature’s Tax Measures
June 9, 2009Fact SheetRaise Revenue or Deepen the Pain
May 21, 2009Issue BriefOregon Should Follow the Feds in Not Taxing Some Unemployment Benefits
February 12, 2009News ReleaseLegislature Has Protected Oregon by Flying With Her Own Wings
February 2, 2009CenterPointsAn Improved Tax Credit, a New Direction for Oregon
December 16, 2008ReportRolling Up Our Sleeves: Building an Oregon that Works for Working Families
November 19, 2008News ReleaseGovernor and Legislature Should Solve Revenue Shortfalls With Revenue Solutions Oregon December Revenue Forecast
September 24, 2008News ReleaseVulnerable Oregonians at Risk of Missing Out on Stimulus Checks
September 1, 2008CenterPointsA $75,000 Bargain for Oregon Taxpayers
August 26, 2008Issue BriefNo Contest: Why expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit is better for working families and Oregon than the Tax Bracket Increase
August 18, 2008News ReleaseCostly Ballot Measure 59 Tilts Benefits to Wealthy, Leaving “No Gain, Just Pain” for Most Oregonians
August 18, 2008ReportNo Gain, Just Pain
July 15, 2008News ReleaseChild Tax Credit Fix Would Help 155,000 Oregon Children
April 24, 2008News ReleaseOregon State and Local Taxes Hit Poor and Middle Class Harder than Rich, Study Finds
March 26, 2008Fact SheetExpanding the EIC in 2009
March 14, 2008News ReleaseOregon Doubles Its Venture Capital Without Income Tax Break
January 21, 2008Issue BriefNo Special Treatment: Seven reasons why Oregon should not reduce or eliminate the income tax on capital gains
January 20, 2008News ReleaseOCPP Finds that Cutting Income Tax on Capital Gains Would Harm Nearly All Oregonians
December 14, 2007Issue BriefPredictably Wrong: Tax Foundation’s Business Climate Index Again Misrepresents the Significance of Oregon’s Low Business Taxes
November 19, 2007CenterPointsTax Cutting Away the Middle Class
October 26, 2007Issue BriefThe 2007 Kicker: Wrongheaded, Unjust, Costly, and a Federal Tax Increase
April 10, 2007Issue BriefGiving Credit Where Credit is Due: How to pay for the Earned Income Credit
April 10, 2007Issue BriefUndocumented Workers Are Taxpayers, Too
April 10, 2007Issue BriefLa Contribución De Los Inmigrantes Indocumentados A La Economía De Oregon
April 4, 2007ReportWorking, Poor, and Taxed: Improving Oregon’s Earned Income Credit
March 28, 2007Issue BriefWho’s Getting Stuck with RALs?
March 27, 2007News ReleaseOregon’s Income Taxes on Working Poor and Near Poor Among Highest in the Nation
November 29, 2006CenterPointsThe First Step for a Truly Hopeful Tax Reform Plan for Oregon
October 20, 2006News ReleaseNew Study Finds Most Oregonians Pay For Federal Tax Cuts That Only Benefit the Rich
August 31, 2006Oregonians can see that Measure 41 is fool’s gold
August 29, 2006News ReleaseEconomic Growth Failing to Improve Incomes for Typical Households, Health Coverage, or Poverty
August 25, 2006Fool's Gold: How Measure 41 would leave seniors and others behind
June 1, 2006News ReleaseStatement by Charles Sheketoff on the $1.1 Billion Kicker Projection
May 4, 2006Issue BriefIssue Brief: The Budget Deficit Gimmick
April 30, 2006CenterPointsCorporate Accountability Reporting
April 14, 2006News ReleaseOregonians Pay More Than Their Share Because Corporations Pay Less - Great Corporate Tax Shift
April 14, 2006ReportThe Great Corporate Tax Shift Undercutting Oregon's Economy and Quality of Life
April 5, 2006Issue BriefOregon Stuck in Doonesbury
March 28, 2006Issue BriefIncome Tax Kickers Disproportionately Benefit Multistate Corporations and Wealthy Oregonians
February 22, 2006News ReleaseOregon’s Income Tax is Harsh for Low-Wage Workers
January 27, 2006CenterPointsTax Delays, Loan Sharking, and the Working Poor
October 27, 2005News ReleaseWyden Tax Plan Closes Corporate Breaks, Taxes Income from Wealth the Same as Income from Work, and Raises Revenues to Meet Public Needs and Reduce Deficit
March 25, 2005Issue BriefWho's Losing Out From RALs?
February 25, 2005ReportInvesting in Working Families: Improving Oregon’s Earned Income Credit
December 27, 2004Issue BriefOregon Enters 2005 in the "Doonesbury Decade"
December 27, 2004News ReleaseOregon Enters 2005 in the "Doonesbury Decade:" News Release, December 27, 2004
September 22, 2004News ReleaseMajor U.S. Companies Paying Little or Nothing in Taxes: News Release, September 22, 2004
June 2, 2004CenterPointsThe Coming Shakedown
April 13, 2004ReportThe Real Squeeze
December 21, 2003ReportA Small Price to Pay
August 21, 2003News ReleaseNew Report On Oregon's Economy Shows Recovery Has Faltered, Oregon Workers Suffering Consequences
July 28, 2003Issue Brief $15 Means More to Low-income Families than $145 Means to Phil Knight
July 7, 2003Issue BriefAddressing the Regressivity of Sales Taxes
July 1, 2003ReportOn Whose Backs?
June 20, 2003ReportFinding the Money
June 10, 2003News ReleaseDemocrats’ Tax Plan is “Counter-productive and Misguided”
April 14, 2002News ReleasePublic Policy Center Urges Oregonians to Use a Critical Eye on Inflated Tax Day Claims
April 1, 2002CenterPointsOvercoming Tax Myths Key to Oregon's Future
February 26, 2002News ReleaseOregon Taxes Workers Earning Low Wages More Than Most States
February 1, 2002News ReleaseGET MONEY BACK
January 25, 2002News ReleaseTax Returns with a Silver Lining?
December 4, 2001Op-edKicker Dreams
September 26, 2001Issue BriefDistributional Analysis of the 1999-2001 Oregon Kicker Refund
June 5, 2001News ReleaseThe 2001 Kicker, an update
May 14, 2001ReportIssue Brief, the 2001 Kicker
May 3, 2001News ReleaseNumbers Speak Louder Than Words Most Oregonians Get Far Less Than Promised Average Tax Cut In Bush Plan
April 15, 2001ReportClearing the Air on Tax Day
April 15, 2001News ReleaseNew Report Aims to “Clear the Air” on Tax Day
April 9, 2001ReportEmpty Promises and False Hopes
April 9, 2001News ReleaseNew Report Shows Capital Gains Tax Cut In Senate Bill 67 Based on "Empty Promises and False Hopes"
March 21, 2001Op-edLeft Behind: A Quarter Million Oregon Children
March 1, 2001ReportAddressing the High Cost of Child Care
March 1, 2001News ReleaseOregon Taxes Low-Income Workers More Than Most States
February 1, 2001CenterPointsBush Tax Cut Unnecessary Giveaway to Wealthy, Harmful for Oregon
November 29, 2000News ReleaseNew food stamp changes benefit working poor Oregonians
October 16, 2000ReportHow Would Expanding Oregon's Deduction for Federal Income Taxes Paid Affect Elderly Oregonians?
October 16, 2000News ReleaseMost Seniors Left Out Under Measures 88 and 91
September 4, 2000ReportProsperity in Perspective
August 14, 2000News Release"Prosperity in Perspective" on Labor Day
April 17, 2000CenterPointsTax Fraud-dom: Avoiding Tax Day Mania
March 15, 2000News ReleaseOregon Taxes Low-Income Workers More Than Most States
October 18, 1999News ReleaseThe 1999 Kicker: A Boon for Politicians, A Loss for Oregonians
July 9, 1999News ReleaseEnd-of-Session Bill Number Change Resurrects Wealthy Tax Cut and Threatens Popular Government Services
June 16, 1999ReportAn Analysis of SB 535's Proposed Corporate and Personal Income Tax Capital Gains Tax Cut
May 29, 1999ReportHelping the Top
May 25, 1999News ReleaseStudy Shows Tax Cut Only Helps Upper Middle Class Minority of Households
May 20, 1999ReportThe Consequences of Increasing Oregon’s Income Tax Deduction for Federal Income Taxes Paid
March 4, 1999News ReleaseOregon Taxes Working Poor More Than Most States
December 11, 1998ReportWhy Make the Oregon Working Family and Earned Income Credits Refundable?
April 13, 1998News ReleaseOregon Reduces Taxes on Poor With 1997 Earned Income Credit But Still Taxes Poor More Than Most States

 

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