By Oregon US Attorney, Oregon Restaurant Owner Sentenced to Prison in Connection with Immigration-Related Forced Labor Scheme. Defendant used debts, fraud, threats of financial and reputational harm, and other means to compel victims to work long hours for minimal pay at restaurants in Oregon and Washington Paul Jumroon, also known […]

Oregon Hospitals May Lose Their Property Tax Exemption By Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation, Oregon hospitals just got hit with a $320 million revenue tax last year with House Bill 2161 (also known as Measure 101). Now Oregon lawmakers are coming back to tax them again by stripping away their […]

By NFIB, NFIB, the nation’s leading small business advocacy organization, issued the following statement on behalf of President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan marking tomorrow’s one-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act being signed into law, which has driven record levels of sustained optimism among small businesses: “Small […]

US Senator Ron Wyden, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for Congress to pass strong privacy legislation in response to the latest privacy scandal at Facebook, revealed in the New York Times. “Mark Zuckerberg had a lot of chutzpah telling Congress that Americans could control their data, when seemingly every […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Oregon’s Equal Pay Act is fully implemented in 2019. The new law outlaws businesses from fixing pay inequities by lowering wages and from hiring based on an employee’s salary history. Oregon minimum wage will increase later in the year on July 1st, the standard rate […]

By Josh Lehner, Office of Economic Analysis, 2018 was another banner year for the economy. Jobs in Oregon are on pace to increase 2.1% which is good growth for the ninth year of an economic expansion. More importantly these gains are still strong enough to accommodate the influx of new […]

Some of the most viewed and shared Oregon business stories on Oregon Business Report. 1. $800 million wine, beer, sin tax to slam small business 2. Oregon has a secret gas tax 3. Lawmakers roll out 14 new business taxes 4. How much will your Kicker Tax Refund be?

By NFIB, These victories may not have generated headlines, but their impact on small business is important nonetheless. NFIB members have celebrated a variety of important triumphs this year, including a delay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the U.S. rule, a dismissed court challenge to President Donald Trump’s […]

By U.S. Attorney, Oregon District John Jason Burgess, 43, of Hillsboro, Oregon, pleaded guilty to one count of concealing or destroying labor union records. According to court documents, between 2008 and 2016, Burgess served as the president of Local 304, an independent labor union representing approximately 140 employees of Pacific […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, The Oregon Legislature just released a batch of over 50 tax related bills it will consider in the 2019 session. Here are some of the Oregon tax proposals that will hit business the hardest. 1. Business property taxes: HJR 3, HJR 4, and HB 2167 […]