Legislators have tried and failed to raise Oregon’s threshold, the lowest in the nation.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
After another session in which some lawmakers tried again — and failed again — to raise the $1 million threshold at which Oregon’s estate tax kicks in, state Rep. Kevin Mannix (R-Salem) and co-petitioner Michelle Mhoon have filed a ballot initiative to do away with the tax completely.
Initiative Petition 51,