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Oregon Estate Tax Ban Amendment (2016)
| Oregon Estate Tax Ban Amendment | |
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| Type | Amendment |
| Origin | Citizens |
| Topic | Taxes |
| Status | Not on the ballot |
| Not on Ballot |
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The Oregon Estate Tax Ban Amendment (Petition #7) did not make the November 8, 2016 ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have prohibited the state and local governments from imposing estate taxes on property gifts within families.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The official ballot title is as follows:[1]
| “ | Amends Constitution: Exempts "gifts" (undefined) within families from tax on estates worth $1 million, other taxes.[2] | ” |
Path to the ballot
A petition for the initiative was submitted to the Oregon Secretary of State by Marie Bowers, Robert Zielinski and Gerald Freeman on May 5, 2014. Proponents needed to collect 1,000 signatures to get the Oregon Attorney General to draft a ballot title. On October 2, 2014, 1,066 valid signatures were submitted, and a title was drafted. Petitioners disagreed with how the title was written and appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court. The court approved the attorney general's title on March 31, 2015.[3]
A total of 117,578 valid signatures were required in order for the issue to land on the 2016 ballot. No signatures were submitted by the July 8, 2016, deadline.[4]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oregon Secretary of State, "Protect Family Giving From Taxes," accessed May 16, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Protect Family Giving From Taxes History," accessed May 16, 2015
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Initiative, referendum, and referral search," accessed July 8, 2016
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State of Oregon Salem (capital) |
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