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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Oregon: City Looking To Temporarily Decrease Sales Tax In Order to Maximize it Later 🌿Oregon: City Looking To Temporarily Decrease Sales Tax In Order to Maximize it Later
Marijuana discussions return to the Gresham City Council on Tuesday as officials plan to recommend to councilors the repeal an existing 10 percent sales tax on recreational marijuana, and instead ask voters to approve a 3 percent tax.
The repeal of the 10 percent tax would keep the city in compliance with laws passed by state lawmakers this year that amended last year's Ballot Measure 91, according to City Council records. More than 51 percent of the Gresham voters who casted ballots supported Measure 91, which authorized recreational drug use.
City attorney David Ris said Friday one medical dispensary and one plant growing business have secured permits from the city since councilors allowed medical sales in May. Others may be coming, he said. In September, councilors voted not to allow the early sales of recreational sales inside medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.
Some councilors had said they would play...
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