By Oregon Small Business Association. Oregon’s workforce is no longer the country’s most stoned, but is still got higher than in 2017.

By Oregon Small Business Association. The carbon tax bill, HB 2020, also known as Carbon Cap-and-Trade would have a big price tag for Oregon small businesses and their customers.

By Oregon Small Business Association. Oregon tax bill HB 2116 could threaten the survival of low income workers by adding an extremely restrictive compliance rule that would impact tens of thousands of occupational licenses holders. Oregon is rated as one of the worst states for occupational licensing and the legislature is considering a tax bill […]

By Oregon Small Business Association. Winemakers, brewmasters and the manufacturers of liquors who planned to debut new labels for national release in 2019 are finding those plans thwarted by the federal government shutdown.

By Oregon Small Business Association. Federal officials shut down an Oregon man’s website that sold fake documents identity thieves could use to defraud innocent victims.

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation Job seekers beware. Scammers are after your money and your personal information.

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation An academic hit job by researchers from Denmark and the University of California at Berkeley suggest that companies such as Nike (Facebook, Apple, Google also cited) are taking advantage of so-called “tax havens” to cause billions of dollars of income go “missing.”

By Oregon Small Business Association The Bend Bulletin recently discovered that people buying gas and diesel at the pumps in Oregon have paid more than $17 million extra since 2016 to subsidize companies that produce low-carbon fuels. But the state Department of Environmental Quality has refused to release the names of the companies that reaped […]

By Oregon Small Business Association The Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Oregon Health Authority are seeking to raise $830 million in new sin taxes next year by paying higher taxes for their cigarettes, beer, and wine.   The tax would be be massive hit to consumers pocketbook and would seriously hurt local grocers — hurting smaller […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation Will Portland’s proposal to outlaw straws be an environmental milestone like Oregon’s historic bottle bill or will it be a public fiasco like the California coffee cancer label which became a national mockery and scientifically rebuffed by the state’s own Environmental Health Office?