My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Public Policy, and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of SB 137 with the -1 amendment.
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All of us deserve to be paid for our work and avoid injury on the job. We all have a right to expect that the state will enforce laws meant to protect workers.
Even good public policy can be made better. That’s the case with Oregon’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), one of the best tools the state has to lift up workers who are paid low wages.
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Oregon can take an essential step to fix the widespread problem of corporate tax avoidance by enacting corporate tax transparency.
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All workers, no matter our place of origin, should be able to earn enough to care for our families. Laws seeking to lift up modest-paid workers should treat workers equally, without discriminating on the basis of immigration status.
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Oregon employers face no real downside to stealing the wages of their workers, because the state rarely penalizes them, and employers almost never pay the fines assessed. That’s according to new research by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP).
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Oregon employers face almost no downside to stealing the wages of workers, given that the boss rarely pays a penalty when caught.
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A century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history.
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Oregon can take an essential step to fix the widespread problem of corporate tax avoidance by enacting corporate tax transparency. Transparency means requiring corporations to make public how much they pay in Oregon income taxes, as well as enough information to understand what benefits Oregonians get from the many tax loopholes and subsidies that corporations exploit.
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Citing “ample evidence” that corporations have been using aggressive tactics to avoid paying taxes, a report released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) urged the Oregon legislature to require large corporations to make public how much they pay in state income taxes and what tax breaks they use.
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