Used-Car Buyers Are Seeing Relief on Once-Soaring Prices
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Oregon adopts permanent rules to protect workers from heat, wildfire smoke
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2022/05/oregon-adopts-permanent-rules-to-protect-workers-from-heat-wildfire-smoke.html
“Paid Leave Oregon” Launches
https://www.mycentraloregon.com/2022/05/07/paid-leave-oregon-launches/ The Oregon Employment Department’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance program is now “Paid Leave Oregon.” When it launches next year, Paid Leave Oregon will allow workers to take paid time off for some of life’s most important moments. This includes: Family leave – to care for a family member with a serious illness or injury, or to…
FUEL TAX HOLIDAYS & SUSPENSIONS MAY IMPACT SOME FIRST QUARTER IFTA RETURNS
If you did not operate in Georgia or Maryland in the first quarter of 2022, you can disregard this message. https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORDOT/bulletins/314fcec For the jurisdictions and periods below, IFTA-licensed motor carriers were able to purchase tax-free fuel and travel non-taxable miles. Note: All mileage and fuel records must be maintained during the tax-free periods. Georgia (GA): All fuel types and…
DEQ 2022 Grant Funds are Available to Replace and Retrofit Diesel Equipment
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is providing approximately $8 million in grant funding for diesel equipment owners to replace older and more polluting diesel engines with new, cleaner technologies and exhaust control retrofits. The program is designed to help address health and environmental impacts from diesel emissions in Oregon. Business, government and tribal diesel equipment owners across the…
CAT extension to file request form now available on revenue website
In response to feedback from tax practitioners the department has posted the OR-CAT-EXT form in the Forms and Publications Library on our website. Short-year CAT return deadline approaching For tax years 2021 and forward, returns for taxpayers that use a federal tax year other than a calendar year are due on or before the 15th day of the fourth month following the…
In Upside-Down U.S. Car Market, MSRPs Have a Whole New Meaning
Automakers have pivoted to selling higher-priced models Dealers add their own hikes on top of manufacturer increases For decades, transactions in U.S. car dealerships went something like this: A couple walks into a showroom, expresses interest in buying a sedan, the sales rep says, great, our MSRP is $26,000, and the two sides sit down to negotiate the price…
Oregon state agencies encourage medium- and heavy-duty vehicle owners to prepare early for diesel retrofit compliance
NEWS RELEASE: March 22, 2022 PORTLAND, Ore. – “Get Ready!” is the message the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Driver & Motor Vehicle Services Division and Commerce and Compliance Division want to convey to motor carriers and owners of certain diesel-powered vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 14,000 lbs. DEQ’s new Diesel Retrofit Compliance Program provides an option…
As gas prices soar, Oregon will give you $7,500 to buy an electric car. Here’s how
Read More! https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2022/03/11/gas-prices-oregon-electric-car/65344161007/