Oregon Anti-Alcohol Advocates Introduce HB 3197 Beer & Wine Sales Tax
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Tawna Sanchez and Oregon anti-alcohol advocates are back at it again.
The Oregon House State Representative lost her year-long bid to get the HB 3610 Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services to recommend new taxes on Oregon’s small alcoholic beverage producers in 2024. Members of the task force representing Oregon craft beer and cider predicted that Sanchez already had a new proposal in the works and they were right. The latest proposal is an amendment to House Bill 3197 to create Oregon’s first ever state grocery and restaurant sales tax, which would increase prices by 8%.
“Representative Sanchez worked with Oregon Recovers to develop another tax increase proposal months before the task force had concluded,” 2 Towns Ciderhouse co-founder Aaron Sarnoff-Wood told the New School in 2024 after the previous HB 3610 task force concluded without recommending a tax.
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