By Oregon restaurant and Lodging Association With a Democrat supermajority in both the Oregon House and Senate, ORLA’s Policy Committee will be fine tuning the hospitality industry’s approach to the 2019 Oregon Legislative Session which began officially on Tuesday, January 22. The following are potential components to ORLA’s advocacy work […]

By Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation Ina  sign of the times, on Thursday the Portland airport had a box accepting food donations for federal airport workers and by Saturday it was taken down as the shutdown ended.  The Willamette Week reported that almost 2,000 federal workers in Oregon have applied […]

NIKE Press Release, Nike released its first Black History Month product, a limited-edition Air Force 1, in 2005. That singular effort has since evolved into a yearly collection, each celebrating African American heritage and a more inclusive world for all athletes. This year’s BHM collection, highlighted by iconic Nike, Jordan […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Winemakers, brewmasters and the manufacturers of liquors who planned to debut new labels for national release in 2019 are finding those plans thwarted by the federal government shutdown. That’s because they can’t obtain the necessary federal approval for their new concoctions from the Alcohol and […]

10 of the Legislature’s biggest business with a tax bite By Oregon Small Business Association, More than two dozen bills have been introduced in the Oregon Legislature to raise taxes on businesses. Here are some of the worst ones 1. A 60% business property tax hike: Taxing business property at […]

By Jason W. Douthit Bullard Law, Oregon law firm In September, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed three bills collectively called Tax Reform 2.0 (referring to a sequel to the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act which was signed into law in late 2017). One of the bills, HR 6757 (Family […]

US Attorney, Oregon District Press Release Statement. A one-count indictment was unsealed in federal court today charging Kermit Tyler Poulson, 39, with transmitting threatening communications with the intent to extort Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. “Using social media to extort or threaten violence against any citizen is a crime. This conduct […]

Ferguson Wellman Oregon based Capitol Management Firm The Internal Revenue Service recently announced the annual inflation adjustments for a number of tax provisions for 2019. These went into effect January 1, 2019 and are not intended to be used for 2018 tax returns. We fully recognize that most of our […]

Josh Lehner, Oregon Office of Economic Analysis A couple years ago we examined Oregon’s diversity and the fact that Oregon’s foreign-born population is fairly similar to, albeit smaller than the U.S. as a whole. Now, Oregon does have a somewhat larger Mexican-born population, but many such residents moved to the […]

By Oregon Small Business Association, Many of the new taxes unveiled this month involve taxing tourists. This is important because Oregon just doubled the hotel and lodging tax back in 2016 and now lawmakers are eyeing the tourists that visit those hotels. Senate Bill 28 would tax tourists in many […]