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Ballot Measure 47 was an initiative in the U.S. state of Oregon that passed in 1996, affecting the assessment of property taxes and instituting a double majority provision for tax legislation. Measure 50 was a revised version of the law, which also passed, after being referred to the voters by the 1997 state legislature .
Many Oregon cities face budget shortfalls some blame on structural problems with property taxes created by Measures 5 and 50, passed in the 1990s.
Property taxes dedicated for school funding were capped at $15 per $1,000 of real market value per year and gradually lowered to $5 per $1,000 per year. Property taxes for other purposes were capped at $10 per $1,000 per year. Thus, the total property tax rate would be 1.5% at the end of the five-year phase in period. [2]
Composition of state and local tax revenues by sales taxes (brown), property taxes (white), licenses and other fees (grey), individual and corporate income taxes (green) in 2007. Determining the value of property is a critical aspect of property taxation, as such value determines the amount of tax due.
Proposed legislation would provide Salem up to $6 million a year from the state of Oregon to offset tax revenue lost from the large amount of state-owned land in the city.
The new amendment removed the previously existing non-taxable property threshold, putting a minimum of 0.05% property tax. [6] Real Estate Tax Rate on Residential Houses and Country Houses: [6] Up to 7 mln AMD inclusive – 0.05%; 7–23 mln AMD inclusive – 3.500 AMD + 0.1% of tax base amount exceeding 7 mln AMD
The Oregon Department of Revenue is the principal tax collection agency in the U.S. state of Oregon.It is charged with administering the state's tax laws and collection of state taxes including personal and corporate income and excise taxes; gift and inheritance taxes; and tobacco taxes and those imposed by more than thirty other tax programs.
The Oregon Tax Court is a state court in the U.S. state of Oregon, which has jurisdiction in questions of law that regard state tax laws. [1] [2] Examples of matters that would come before this court include income taxes, corporate excise taxes, property taxes, timber taxes, cigarette taxes, local budget law, and property tax limitations. [1]