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Intel paid no federal income taxes. It wasn’t the only big corporation with a small tax bill

Less than zero. That was Intel’s federal tax bill in 2022. Not only did Intel pay no federal income taxes that year, the company even recorded a $249 million tax credit reducing future tax payments, according to the Portland Business Journal. And if Intel paid no federal income taxes, it raises the question, how much did […]

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A state research and development tax credit would be wasteful and counterproductive

[This commentary first appeared in The Oregonian.] We all want Oregon to prosper. We all want our state to be the home of innovation. To achieve that, public policies must be based on facts. A recent opinion in The Oregonian/OregonLive (“Oregon must step up its game to boost state’s competitiveness,” March 12) disregards the facts when calling on

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6 missed opportunities in the 2019 legislative session

By all accounts, the 2019 Oregon legislative session was historic. Even before the second walkout by Senate Republicans ground deliberations to a halt, the legislature had already enacted the largest investment in education in memory and tenant protections legislation. The last two days of the session that followed the end of the walkout produced a flurry of

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