Oregon’s bike tax receipts reflect pandemic-era boom
The $1.2 million the state raised with the tax in 2022 is exactly what economists predicted it would collect when they pitched it in 2017.
The $1.2 million the state raised with the tax in 2022 is exactly what economists predicted it would collect when they pitched it in 2017.
Here’s something light to end the week…
Here’s what the State of Oregon is doing with that tax you pay on the purchase of new bicycles: The Oregon Department of Transportation has just launched a new program that could provide an estimated $14 million to multi-use path projects statewide. The Oregon Community Paths program is the evolution of the active transportation portion … Read more
The latest receipts from Oregon’s bicycle excise tax show that revenue is still lower than lawmakers hoped for. The $15 tax on new bicycles was one of several taxes passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2017 to raise revenue for transportation projects and programs. It went into effect on January 1st, 2018 and is collected … Read more
Receipts going down, admin overhead going up.
It’s not meeting revenue expectations and it’s costing more to collect than expected.
“It strikes me as arbitrary and capricious. Which is what this has felt like all along.”
The State of Oregon wants to make the bike tax simpler and more expansive.
Will it be worth the proverbial “seat at the table”? Will it suffice as “skin in the game”?
“Buy a Santa Cruz, We kick in $15, nobody dies of dysentery.”