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New $6.8 Billion Tax on Sales would be Largest Tax in State History,
Hurting Oregon Businesses and Costing Consumers Billions

October 2, 2024

By The Oregonian Editorial Board What would Oregonians do if given a $1,600-per-person check every year to spend however they saw fit? Pay for rent or save for a child’s college education? Maybe hold onto the cash to cover the surprise expenses that arise at the worst times? The possibilities are bound to spark all kinds […]

October 2, 2024

Measure 118, which would impose the largest tax increase in Oregon’s history, was written in a Eugene coffee shop. If that makes you nervous, it should. The measure would increase taxes by $6.8 billion per year, according to a report by the nonpartisan Legislative Revenue Office. It would do so by requiring businesses to pay […]

September 27, 2024

An initiative on the November ballot disguises a huge business tax increase as a ‘rebate.’There are bad ideas and then there are ideas so lousy that even liberal Democrats disown them. Count in the latter category an Oregon ballot measure that would stick companies with the highest corporate tax burden in the country while pitching […]

September 27, 2024

By: News Register Editorial Board Measure 118:  This is a gross receipts sales tax designed to shift wealth from the corporate elite to the common man. The idea is assessing a 3% tax on the gross receipts of corporations taking in more than $25 million a year to use the projected $6.8 billion to cut […]

September 25, 2024

Legislative fiscal analysts have spent months trying to parse the proposed tax hike and rebate. A proposed corporate tax hike to send every Oregonian a check could end up costing the state more than $1 billion annually, legislative revenue analysts told lawmakers this week.  Voters will decide in November whether to approve Measure 118, which […]

September 16, 2024

Relying on a former state economist, the Common Sense Institute says the large corporate Measure 118 won’t deliver promised benefits. Common Sense Institute, a business-friendly think tank that’s raising its profile in Oregon, today took a close look at Measure 118, the November ballot measure that would impose a 3% gross receipts tax on corporations […]

September 4, 2024

I applaud the many state lawmakers who oppose Measure 118 (“Ballot measure to tax corporations and pay Oregonians $1,600 a year draws bipartisan opposition,” Aug. 13), which would spell disaster for Oregon businesses, including independent medical practices. While non-profit hospitals are excluded from this proposed tax, it broadly applies to other medical entities, including independent […]

August 23, 2024

Virtually every major player in Oregon politics has come out against the proposal. That’s a big change — and no guarantee it can’t succeed. Eight years ago, a proposal to raise Oregon taxes on large businesses had corporations and public sector unions at each other’s throats. The tax hike proposed in 2016′s Measure 97 led […]

August 22, 2024

The Oregon Center for Public Policy has also advocated for higher corporate taxes but nonetheless pans the Oregon Rebate. If there was one group in Oregon that backers of Measure 118, the so-called Oregon Rebate, might have expected to support the November ballot measure, it would have been the Oregon Center for Public Policy. A […]