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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Oregon man to plead guilty to planting fake bomb on plane Senator proposes cuts to personal income taxes, new tax on corporations PORTLAND (AP) — A United States citizen accused of falsely reporting there was a bomb a Dutch airliner is scheduled to plead guilty. Police arrested Sean Michael Davies, 22, of Warrenton, Oregon, last year on charges he constructed a fake bomb, then placed it in the restroom during a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ÀLJKW IURP $PVWHUGDP WR Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He alerted the crew about the device, and that caused the 2FW ÀLJKW WR EH diverted to Cairo, Egypt. Prosecutors said Davies’ motive was to look like a hero. The Warrenton, Oregon, man pleaded not guilty last year and a trial was sched- uled to start Tuesday in Portland. Instead, a change of plea hearing was sched- uled for Monday afternoon. Federal prosecutor Charles Gorder said he expects Davies to plead guilty to conveying false information concerning a By HILLARY BORRUD and PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — A lawmaker from Beaverton Monday introduced a proposal to cut income taxes for many low- and middle-income Oregonians and levy a new tax on corporations. Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, pitched the concept as an alternative to a corporate tax measure proposed for the November ballot by the union-backed group Our Oregon. Hass and Democratic leaders in the Oregon Senate would like to avoid a bitter and expensive political battle between business and labor groups, which many people expect if the Our Oregon measure goes to voters. Hass’ package would eliminate the state’s corporate income tax and instead impose a 0.39 percent tax on all corpora- tions’ sales in Oregon, a model that Ohio adopted in 2006. As a result, the tax base is much larger and the rate is lower than in the Our Oregon initiative, which would impose an additional 2.5 percent tax on the Oregon sales of certain corporations in excess of $25 million. His bill has support from Senate Demo- crat leadership, but faces a major hurdle in the Oregon House where Democratic leaders have so far refused to consider an alternative corporate tax measure. Any tax legislation must originate in the House. Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, said resistance from business and labor groups to any alternative has also dulled the prospects for legislation. “There just has not been the kind of interest that you need to make a move like this and have it succeed,” Burdick said. “It just does not exist right now.” Senate Democrats on Monday listed tax reform as one of their priorities for the 2016 session, even though they acknowl- edged the issues would likely receive nothing more than discussion. In addition to upping corporate taxes, Senate Demo- crats said they want to look at other ways to relieve the state’s inordinate reliance on income taxes by reforming “kicker” refunds and the property tax system. “When people ask me personally what is the one thing we could do to help Oregon, I say completely revamp our tax system,” said Senate Majority Whip Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Bea- verton. “We see the crises we have every time we have a recession because we are so dependent on our personal income tax Hillary Borrud/EO Media Group Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, Monday pitched the concept as an alterna- tive to a corporate tax measure proposed for the November ballot by the union-backed group Our Oregon. so we need to think about that.” Hass said the Legislature could either pass its own corporate tax plan, or refer a measure to voters in November. “While the rhetoric continues to esca- late, a compromise is now sitting here on the shelf,” Hass said. “It’s transparent, easy to understand and substantiated by credible economists. The legislature could pass this plan today.” But Hass said lawmakers could hold a special session to pass a tax bill, just as it did in 2012 to help Nike. “At stake then was 500 jobs,” Hass said. Hass’ proposal could lead to the creation of 4,454 new jobs, with 2,903 in the public sector and 1,551 in the private sector, according analysis by legislative economists. Most of the public jobs would be teachers. A tax on corporate sales, also known as gross receipts, is a tax on consumption WKDW /HJLVODWLYH 5HYHQXH 2I¿FHU 3DXO Warner described as “slightly regres- sive.” Hass attempted to offset some of the impact by including income tax cuts for lower and middle-income workers. On average, Hass’ proposal would result in a tax cut for households with disposable annual incomes of up to $58,000, He said. It would double Oregon’s standard deduction for personal income taxes and increase the earned income tax credit to 18 percent of the federal earned income tax credit. Economists in the Legislative 5HYHQXH2I¿FHKHOSHG+DVVGHYHORSWKH proposal, and they estimated it would raise an additional $1 billion annually. Half the revenue would pay for education, and the remainder would pay for personal income tax cuts and the elimination of the corporate income tax. State economists project $500 million in taxes for K-12 and higher education in the 2017 through 2019 budget cycle and they found the tax would likely generate more in the future, with $550 million for education in the 2019 through 2021 budget cycle. “We would expect that the (corporate tax revenue) would grow,” Warner said. 7KH HFRQRPLF EHQH¿WV RI +DVV¶ proposal primarily stem from the income WD[FXWV7KH/HJLVODWLYH5HYHQXH2I¿FH recently analyzed a nearly identical corporate sales tax scenario, and found it would cause a net loss of 9,000 jobs. Legislative economists have estimated Our Oregon’s corporate tax measure might generate $2.65 billion annually for the state, but are still working on an analysis of the economic impacts of the tax, for example on employment and consumer prices. 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