The Oregonian: Would consumers or big corporations pay huge tax hike headed toward Oregon ballot?
media mention“Matthew Gardner, executive director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said his group – which is associated with the left-of-center Center for Tax Justice – also dislikes gross receipts taxes. They tend to be regressive, complex and unfair to certain kinds of businesses, he said.
But Gardner said that because Oregon doesn’t have a sales tax, it has more room to rely on a gross receipts tax. And even the large tax increase proposed by Our Oregon would not make the overall tax burden out of step with states such as California and Washington, he said.
“It’s not obvious that it’s going to put Oregon at an economic disadvantage,” said Gardner, explaining that businesses may still find that costs aren’t higher in Oregon than in other states.”