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Coast Range Radio: Timber Tax Fairness
Join Tax Fairness Oregon's Jody Wiser and Catherine Thomasson for an interview about timber tax fairness, along with the hardships faced by Oregon counties from reduced timber tax revenues and impacts on rural water providers. Listen at Coast Range Radio.
How to Protect Our Water
Drinking water is one of our most precious natural resources. Millions of Oregonians drink water that originates in forests. Forests store water, slow its flow, and filter particles to produce clean drinking water. We can't make more water.
Timber Tax Forum: November 11th
Upcoming Timber Tax Forum for the Portland area We are concerned that timber counties have not been getting the revenue they deserve since Oregon stopped taxing timber. We don’t tax its value when it is growing nor when it is cut. Unlike our neighbors. We’ve been talking with legislators and [...]
Dear Legislators: cut tax loopholes, not services
At its August special session, the legislature will address a drop in revenue due to the COVID recession. The shortfall is about $1 billion. Leaders have proposed spending cuts and use of reserves. The forecast is for an even bigger deficit in the next biennium. Unfortunately, they have proposed no [...]
TIMBER!!!
This is an extraordinary story about the manipulation of the legislature to give timber owners a free ride in Oregon . . . from taxes and from regulations. The biggest tax break, the elimination of the Oregon severance tax on private timber holdings, happened in the 1990’s, when few currently [...]