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Revealed: Oregon spent funds meant for addiction services on prosecutors and police gadgets
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Vancouver, Washington. Its at the very south of Washington state, just a few minutes drive from the Oregon border and Portland. It's almost intentionally confusing.
Because Washington has no state income tax but does have a high sales tax and Oregon has no sales tax, but a high income tax, its a "no taxes" hack to live in Vancouver, then work and shop in Oregon. Its also a dick move, as you get to Oregon across these large, expensive bridges you pay literally $0 dollars to maintain.
You basically leech off two states resources while paying very little into their coffers.
If you work in Oregon, you're paying Oregon income tax. The hack is to live and work in Vancouver while doing all your shopping in Oregon.
It's only a hack in the sense that anyone can lie on their taxes and not to pay the use tax which is sales tax on out of state purchases used in Washington.
I don't know anyone at all who pays the use tax. I entirely forgot it was a thing.
They'd probably only be able to catch you on large purchases like a car or boat where you have to register them.
The dick move is 10% income tax while the Oregon government frequently misuses the funds for personal gain.
That’s up there with Ontario, CA
It seems like you'd be spending more on gas / time value than you would by paying the sale taxes on small/medium purchases?
Depends on the size of the purchase. For example, I buy groceries in Vancouver but televisions in Portland.
Makes sense because there's no WA sales tax on most food grocery items.
I'm guessing there aren't many car dealerships in Vancouver.
Actually… WA and OR have a sneaky deal where if you buy it in Oregon and then try to register it in WA, you owe the taxes to WA anyway.
Kinda crap if you ask me.
I think it's completely fair really. I mean you're already getting mad benefits from leeching from two states, surely you want to pay something towards public services where you live?
It's basically on the north side of the river that is the border between the states. Think 5min drive to enter the state, another 5-10min to Portland.
The point is to pay less tax that will be misused.