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Pamplin Media Group - OPINION: Sustainable forestry should not be attacked

March 07 2021 Paul Nys: In my mind, this is a contract with the state . To unilaterally impose more taxes is unacceptable. Responding to the guest editorial, It s time to reconsider Oregon s timber severance tax by Regan Fisher: First, the Portland resident who advocated taxing rural Oregonians an additional severance tax must subscribe to the old adage that taxes on someone else is better. This family pays property taxes, a harvest tax, a severance tax, and of course, federal and state income taxes. In the pending legislative proposals (bills), there is not a single incentive for forestland owners to offset additional and grievously unfair increasd taxes.

Bring back timber severance tax in Oregon

Pamplin Media Group - My View: It is time to reconsider Oregon s timber severance tax

February 19 2021 Regan Fisher is a Southeast Portland resident. She argues that state towns and cities should reap the benefits of timber harvests. Many of Oregon s small towns are cash-strapped and struggling.? Some blame these financial woes on a decline in revenue from logging due to environmental ?protections, and they advocate for larger harvests. However, the truth is that despite ?conservation efforts, timber harvests on state and federal land have remained about the same ?for the past 25 years. So why aren t communities reaping the benefits?? The answer is that timber companies have finagled outrageously preferential tax treatment for ?themselves, allowing them to wring money from our forests without putting even the bare ?minimum back into the communities in which they operate.

Pamplin Media Group - Opinion: It s time to reconsider Oregon s timber severance tax

February 19 2021 Regan Fisher is a Southeast Portland resident. She argues that state towns and cities should reap the benefits of timber harvests. Many of Oregon s small towns are cash-strapped and struggling.? Some blame these financial woes on a decline in revenue from logging due to environmental ?protections, and they advocate for larger harvests. However, the truth is that despite ?conservation efforts, timber harvests on state and federal land have remained about the same ?for the past 25 years. So why aren t communities reaping the benefits?? The answer is that timber companies have finagled outrageously preferential tax treatment for ?themselves, allowing them to wring money from our forests without putting even the bare ?minimum back into the communities in which they operate.

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