Portland Councilors Propose Business Tax Increase
(Portland, OR) -- Portland faces a more than 90-million-dollar budget gap. Cutting that much money could hurt after-school programs, community centers, and youth sports along with critical city services. Councilors Steve Novick, Jamie Dunphy, and Angelita Morillo are proposing a one-third of one percent increase in the Portland Clean Energy Fund tax on large, national retailers. It would raise 60-million-dollars. They also want to increase the exemption from the Portland business license tax from 50-thousand to 100-thousand dollars to help small businesses.



