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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Advocacy group wants lawmakers
to reform income tax credit rules
‘The whole
idea of selling
a fi ve-year
tax credit
might be the
stupidest
thing we’re
doing.’
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A tax reform
group is pushing state law-
makers to reform transferable
income tax credits that Oregon
awards to energy conserva-
tion, transportation, biomass
and agricultural workforce
housing projects.
Jody Wiser is chairwom-
an of Tax Fairness Oregon, a
group which advocates for a
progressive tax code and full
enforcement of state tax laws.
Wiser is also a registered lob-
byist for the group.
Wiser met Thursday with
state Rep. Phil Barnhart,
D-Spring¿ eld, and chairman of
the House Interim Committee
on Revenue, to discuss poten-
tial changes to the tax credits.
The state has awarded
many of these tax credits to
nonpro¿ ts, religious groups
and governments that don’t
owe any taxes, but because
the credits are transferable the
groups can sell them to raise
cash. In many cases the cred-
its are sold at deep discounts,
Jody Wiser, Tax
Fairness Oregon
resulting in less money for the
projects they were meant to
help fund.
“The whole idea of selling
a ¿ ve-year tax credit might be
the stupidest thing we’re do-
ing,” Wiser said.
It would be simpler for the
state to issue grants to the proj-
ects of¿ cials want to support, in-
stead of tax credits, Wiser said.
“Frankly, as much as the
people who do energy and the
people who do low-income
housing would like to see their
budgets protected, because tax
credits protect them, I don’t
think their budgets are more
sacrosanct than school bud-
gets, and school budgets aren’t
protected,” Wiser said.
Wiser suggested that if the
state wants to continue issu-
ing transferable tax credits as
a public policy tool, agencies
should sell only one-year tax
credits and use public auctions
to make the sales.
That would raise money
that could be issued in grants
to the projects the state wants
to encourage.
Supporters of tax credit
auctions point out the Oregon
¿ lm of¿ ce has used them suc-
cessfully to sell tax credits for
about 99 cents on the dollar.
Wiser said there are “a lot
of people in the housing com-
munity and it sounds negative
to do something they don’t
want. So it may be changing
it to an auction is the farthest
you can go.”
The Capital Bureau is a
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Allaying fears
McNicoll wants to allay
public fear about overdosing
from edibles.
News coverage of can-
nabis edibles has been less-
than complimentary of the
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — State
shell¿ sh managers have closed
the recreational crab ¿ sheries in-
side Willapa Bay due to elevated
marine toxin levels.
The rest of Washington’s
coastal areas, including Grays
Harbor, remain open for sport
crab ¿ shing, said Dan Ayres,
coastal shell¿ sh manager for the
Washington Department of Fish
and Wildlife .
“Test results indicate crabs
elsewhere on the coast are safe
to eat,” Ayres said. “We’ll contin-
ue monitoring for marine toxins
in Willapa Bay and elsewhere
along the coast.”
The department announced
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collected Nov. 4 were as high as
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Domoic acid has posed a
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this year along Washington’s
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columnist Maureen
viduals and busi-
Dowd wrote about
nesses have joined
eating a whole
the edibles council
marijuana-infused
to date, he said.
chocolate bar that
contained multiple
Worries about
servings, McNicoll
burdensome
noted.
David
testing
Public educa-
McNicoll
The group al-
tion is his answer
to negative perceptions about ready has an inÀ uential voice
edibles. He envisions the through its founder. McNicoll
group organizing advertising recently was selected to serve
campaigns and distributing on the Oregon Health Author-
posters and retail cards with ity’s Medical Marijuana Rules
information on how to avoid Advisory Committee and
plans to argue against burden-
an overdose.
Another priority for the some testing requirements for
council is to lobby lawmak- edibles.
“If regulations are too
ers in February to change
the de¿ nition of a “limited price-prohibitive, it will stiÀ e
marijuana retail product” to the success of the industry,”
include low-dose edibles. McNicoll said.
He will be up against
Edibles sales are limited to
patients with a medical mar- members of the public safety
ijuana card. Expanding the organizations such as the Or-
de¿ nition would allow mari- egon League of Cities, which
juana dispensaries to sell edi- will be advocating for more
testing and stricter packaging
bles to recreational users.
McNicoll came up with the of edibles, said the league’s
idea for the lobby group while Scott Winkels.
The Capital Bureau is a
participating in the Oregon
Retailers of Cannabis Associ- collaboration between EO
ation. Council meetings will Media Group and Pamplin
be in conjunction with the Media Group.
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SALEM — Pot brownies?
There’s a lobbyist for that.
As the legalized marijuana
industry expands in Oregon,
growers, processors, man-
ufacturers and retailers are
joining forces to lobby for the
interests of their niche market.
Oregon Responsible Edi-
bles Council is the latest man-
ifestation of that effort.
The new lobbying group
and trade association, formed
by David McNicoll, owner of
Dave’s Space Cakes in Eu-
gene, will meet for the ¿ rst
time later this month in Eu-
gene.
“We would like to be a
voice for edibles in the state
of Oregon,” McNicoll said.
The group plans to accom-
plish that mission through a
public education campaign
and lobbying efforts during
the February legislative ses-
sion.
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Willapa Bay closed to crab
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Lobbyist champions
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