Promote your Organization and Enhance your Image NOW! The opportunity to be a part of the 2018-2020 Official, Tualatin Area Full Color Print and Interactive Map is now! The Tualatin Chamber is producing this publication which provides an updated, accurate media campaign to showcase all that there is to see and do in the Tualatin […]

Initiative Petition 31 (IP 31) reinforces the requirement that all tax increase legislation must receive a 3/5th supermajority vote from the Oregon legislature in order to be passed into law. This law has saved Oregon businesses and individuals billions in additional taxes over the past 20 years, but sadly, the legislature has begun to fund loopholes […]

The Foundation for Tigard Tualatin Schools invites you to submit a proposal to teach a class for the fall, spring and summer 2018-19 sessions of our SEED Enrichment Program,   Classes are on Sunday afternoons – Oct. 14-Nov. 18, Feb. 10-Mar. 17 and M-F July 15-19. Instructors do not need to be certified school teachers. SEED is a series of moderately priced enrichment […]

Oregon State Chamber of Commerce (OSCC) provides us with regular advocacy updates: The special session only took one day. House Bill 4301 – the Governor’s bill to allow sole proprietors to take advantage of Oregon’s lower tax rates for pass-through businesses – passed the House 51-8 and passed the Senate 18-12. No other bills were considered. […]

Free IRS Webinar: Understanding Payment Options https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/webinars-for-small-businesses This web conference will provide an overview of the following: Direct Pay Online Payment Agreements Cash Payments/IRS-Pay Near Me Other Payment Options Plus a live Q & A May 24, 2018 Choose from two times: Session 1 – 11 a.m. (ET), 10 a.m. (CT), 9 a.m. (MT), 8 […]

The Oregon State Chamber of Commerce (OSCC) provides us with regular advocacy updates: “The purpose of the Special Session is to pass LC 1 (linked here), which allows sole proprietors (with at least 1,200 employee hours) to take advantage of Oregon’s lower tax rates for “pass through” businesses. LC 1 is Governor Brown’s bill. On its […]

Oregon State Chamber of Commerce (OSCC) provides us with regular advocacy updates: “We continue to monitor the prospect of a special session. Governor Brown has called for one-day session on Monday, May 21, but the session could last as many as five days. Governor Brown called the special session to restore some tax cuts that […]

On April 26, 2018, Governor Kate Brown and Business Oregon announced the recommended 86 census tracts to be designated with the United States’ Department of Treasury as Oregon’s Opportunity Zones – Tualatin contains two: 320.03 and 320.05 (pictured below.) The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 established “Opportunity Zones” as a new federal tax […]

We have two updates: (1) Special Session.  The prospect of a special session is alive and well.  Governor Brown has called for one-day session on Monday, May 21. Governor Brown called the special session to restore some tax cuts that she denied to 250,000 small businesses in Oregon when she signed SB 1528 into law […]

IR-2018-103, April 24, 2018 WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today warned of a new twist on an old phone scam as criminals use telephone numbers that mimic IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) to trick taxpayers into paying non-existent tax bills. The IRS and its Security Summit partdners – the state tax agencies and the […]