Tax Fairness Resources
Useful Web Sites Useful Documents about Taxation Estate Tax
You'll find the Q&A by United for a Fair Economy helpful in understanding more about the federal estate tax.
Other good sources of information include:
Oregon Estate Tax Facts
United for a Fair Economy
Oregon Center for Public Policy
Open Secrets
Working Group on Extreme Inequality
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP)
Neil Harl, agricultural economist
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Blog: BlueOregon
Oregon State Legislature, Budget and Taxation
Institute for Policy Studies
On the Issues
Capital Gains Cheating Costs Oregon $90 Million/Year
Expanded Tax Compliance Initiatives
Federal Tax Gap, 2001
Highway Solar Lighting Project
The Increasing Cost of BETC
Keep Capital Gains Taxation Fair in Oregon
Oregon's Tax Gap: 1.5 Billion a Year.pdf
Rethinking Growth Strategies (Economic Policy Institute, 2004)
Revenue Impacts of Tax Changes
Tax breaks for wind costly, unnecessary, The Portland Tribune (December 31, 2008)
Tax breaks for windpower irk some, The Portland Tribune (December 18, 2008)
Testimony at Regulations Hearing for BETC 5.29.2008
TFO Candidate Interview Questions
What does it cost us to buy a green job?, Op-Ed, The Oregonian (July 17, 2008)
Who Pays Oregon Taxes?
We partner with national organizations in fighting for a progressive estate tax.
Estate Tax and the Minimum Wage
Graph: Estate Tax and Minimum Wage
Federal Estate Taxes Paid Through 2006, by State
Federal Estate Taxes at Different Tax Exemptions
Who Pays the Federal Estate Tax?
Sensible Estate Tax Reform Proposal
Other Regressive Estate Tax Proposals
Oregon Lottery Winners Pay Taxes, Birth Lottery Winners Can Too
The Estate Tax: Myths and Realities, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (February 7, 2007).
Estate Tax History Versus Myth, National Center for Policy Analysis, (July 19, 2000).
Who Paid the Federal Estate Tax in 2005?, Citizens for Tax Justice (January 10, 2007).
Spending Millions to Save Billions: The Campaign of the Super Wealthy to Kill the Estate Tax, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, United for a Fair Economy (April 2006).
Effects of the Federal Estate Tax on Farms and Small Businesses, A CBO Paper, Congressional Budget Office (July 2005).
Fair Taxes for All

