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Nov 5 >50% TBD: Citizens On ballot CI-127: Requires the state to adopt an election system where the winner must receive a majority of the vote. [60] TBD: Nevada: Citizens Failed [25] Question 3: Implements a top-five nonpartisan blanket primary; with ranked-choice voting for the general election for state and federal offices. [61] Nov 5 >50% ...
Currently, Oregon taxpayers may take a personal exemption tax credit ($154 for 2005) for each exemption allowed under federal tax law. Typically a taxpayer may take a credit for themself, a spouse and each dependent. A tax credit is a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the amount of taxes owed. This tax credit is adjusted for the cost of living ...
Five states imposed income tax on military retirement benefits: California, Montana, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont. [ X ] This map shows which states tax military retirement pay.
The list of Oregon ballot measures lists all statewide ballot measures to the present. In Oregon, the initiative and referendum process dates back to 1902, when the efforts of the Direct Legislation League prompted amending the Oregon Constitution for the first time since 1859. The process of initiative and referendum became nationally known as ...
Referendum 1 - College Tax Exempt Extends an ad valorem tax exemption to privately owned and operated student dormitories and parking decks within the University of Georgia system. 100% reporting
Instead of property taxes, funding had to come from the General Fund. Oregon does not have a sales tax, so money had to be drawn from the General Fund - primarily via the state income tax). [2] Measure 5 also equalized school funding throughout the state, which meant that schools in rural areas benefited while schools in Portland saw budgets ...
A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
In 1912, Oregon became the seventh U.S. state to permit women to vote. The amendment to the Oregon Constitution, passed by ballot initiative, was largely the result of decades of advocacy by Abigail Scott Duniway, who founded a weekly newspaper, The New Northwest, in part to promote voting rights for women. The National Women's Suffrage ...