Tax Facts that Matter: 2013 Edition

Chuck Sheketoff

With April 15th coming up and the state legislature talking about different ways to raise revenues to meet Oregon's revenue shortfall, ever wonder. . .

• How many corporations use tax credits to bring their tax liability down to the minimum tax?
• What's the share of income from capital gains going to the top 1 percent?
• How much more additional state revenues would we have if corporations paid the same share of Oregon's income taxes that they paid 40 years ago?
• How many corporations had $100 million or more in Oregon sales and paid a minimum tax that is less than or equal to one-tenth of one percent (0.1 percent) of their sales?
• Of the 42 states with income taxes in 2011, what number taxed the income of a family of four living at the poverty line?

Get the answers to those and other questions by reading OCPP's Harper's Index-styled fact sheet Tax Facts that Matter: 2013 Edition (HTML — click image for PDF).

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Chuck Sheketoff is the executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. You can sign up to receive email notification of OCPP materials at www.ocpp.org.

By Chuck Sheketoff April 14, 2013 Posted in open discussion.