Oregon House passes substituted Republican $18M tax plan, Dems lacked votes to pass $275M version

Statesman-Journal:

The Oregon House today shelved a plan by majority Democrats to raise $275 million from higher-income households and businesses to balance the state budget. Instead, the House voted unanimously to substitute a Republican plan to raise an estimated $18 million. The substitute is based on a decade-old Montana law requiring businesses headquartered in nations known as “tax havens” to report their income on Oregon returns.

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