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LRO frames tax-reform trade-offs and previews 2026 bills including an estate-tax technical package
Summary
The Legislative Revenue Office told the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee that Oregon's revenue system is highly dependent on income taxes, outlined past reform efforts and analytical tools (OTIM), and previewed three 2026 committee bills: a technical clean-up, a small policy estate-tax bill, and a placeholder for broader reform.
The Legislative Revenue Office gave the Senate interim finance committee a wide-angle briefing on the history, tools and trade-offs of tax reform in Oregon and previewed the three revenue bills the committee will sponsor for 2026.
Chris Alenak of the Legislative Revenue Office opened by placing reform discussions in budget context: "for 2527... it's the state budget... about $140,000,000,000," he said, and he noted the general fund is driven largely by personal income tax receipts. Alenak walked senators through the analytic vocabulary used in reform debates: adequacy, fairness (vertical and horizontal…
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