Send your email !
January 16, 2026
Here’s what Jody sent to her two state legislators on the tax haven legislation. Please sent it or your own words to your two legislators. Find their email here: Legislator Lookup – oregonlegislature.gov Don’t just forward this to them. It’s far better to send an email.
We need your vote to make the tax changes
for global corporations using GILTI and FDII
Of course, the business community will lobby you to focus on depreciation. They only lose the time value of money with that provision. You should do both changes to corporate taxation. But the NCTI (GILTI) and D/C FDDEI (FDII) changes are by far the most important. They will be the most productive over time, providing nearly $400 million a biennium in new revenue going forward. And will significantly increase tax fairness by reducing corporate tax avoidance by global corporations. It will not impact local Oregon companies that do not use overseas tax havens.
For example, here’s some information about tax avoidance by Oregon’s data center owners.
Each of the big data center developers in eastern Oregon has long been known as a user of tax havens: Apple, Google/Alphabet, Facebook/Meta, Amazon/AWS as well as Adobe in Hillsboro. So, of course, are Intel, Nike, Starbucks and a whole host of other big global companies.
Trillions more are held in offshore tax havens by hedge funds, private equity firms and investment partnerships, where the tech bros and others invest their funds. These are the owners of GTS, Flexential and Stack each of which has five or more data centers in Hillsboro.
Amazon (with 62 data centers in eastern Oregon) is amongst the worst according to Wikipedia, paying 12% rather than 35% in federal taxes and therefore 2.6% rather than 7.6% in Oregon taxes.
Meta/Facebook (with 11 data centers in Prineville) is famous for its use of Ireland and the Caymen Islands as tax havens.
The business community will lobby you to focus on depreciation. It’s the best deal for them, but not for tax fairness or the General Fund. Tell your fellow legislators you support changes to GILTI and FDII.
Sources:
ITEP’s Top 100 users of offshore shell games names the 100 biggest users in 2017. Likely all of whom do business with Oregonians. It shows tax avoidance by Intel at $46.4 billion and Nike at $12.2 billion https://itep.org/offshoreshellgames2017/
Hedge funds, private equity firms and investment partnerships use of tax havens
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/4-trillion-us-wealth-stashed-overseas-much-it-tax-havens
AmazonWikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax_avoidance#:~:text=%5B1%5D%20According%20to%20a%20report,US%20during%20the%20same%20period.
Facebook https://itep.org/fact-sheet-facebook-and-tax-avoidance/
Voices needed on Oregon Corporate Tax Give-A-Ways
January 12, 2026
Oregon faces the loss of nearly $900 million in already budgeted revenue funds for education and other essential services. This is due, in part, to changes in the corporate tax structure enacted in the Big Beautiful Bill.
It is essential that we pressure legislators to act on this. We understand they don’t currently have this issue on their list of things to accomplish in the coming session. But the list is still in flux.
They need to know constituents are watching to see what they do. Please email them now and ask at their town halls about addressing losses in Corporate taxed revenue derived from Foreign intangible income and Global intangible Income: known as Foreign Derived Intangible Income (FDII) and Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI). FDII is a tax deduction for Corporations and GILTI contains flagrant loopholes.
You don’t need to explain these to your representative. Just let them know that Oregon must disconnect from these bad federal policies by eliminating the FDII in Oregon and increasing the GILTI for Oregon schools and our safety net.
By getting rid of FDII and increasing GILTI to at least 50 percent, Oregon would realize an estimated $380 million in a full biennium and about $190 million for the current 25-27 budget.
It’s easy to look up who your own legislators are at Legislator Lookup – oregonlegislature.gov
If you know who they are, the email addresses for Oregon legislators follow this pattern:
Sen.KateLieber@OregonLegislature.Gov and Rep.JulieFahey@oregonlegislature.gov I’m sure you see the pattern.
Now, before the legislative session begins in February, is the best time to reach out on this issue.
Please see this link provided by the Oregon Center for Public Policy for an in-depth discussion: https://www.ocpp.org/2025/11/12/corporations-profits-overseas-tax
News report – Oregon property tax deferral program declining participation…
January 5, 2026
A decades-old Oregon program that allows seniors and disabled homeowners to defer property taxes has seen participation drop dramatically. – KPTV
