Don Ryan/The Associated PressSealed boxes containing Oregon "kicker" tax refund checks await processing in the state's printing plant in advance of the holiday season in this 2001 file photo.
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No sales tax ...stupid (one of five states without one); Oregon kicker law ...SUPER stupid  ... Only one state, quirky Oregon, engages in this insanity -- known as the "kicker" (because income taxes get kicked back to those who paid them).
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Oregon taxpayers will receive the largest "kicker" tax refunds in state history this December, getting back nearly one-fifth of their 2006 personal income taxes in checks totaling $1.1 billion, state officials announced this morning.
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Oregon personal income tax kicker refund checks will be mailed by Dec. 15, 2007, not by Thanksgiving. ... The reason for the change: The 2007 Oregon Legislature changed the base for figuring the kicker. The Legislature has given Oregon Department of Revenue 15 extra days to calculate and process the checks.
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Kicker (Oregon tax rebate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oregon tax rebate , commonly referred to as the kicker , is a rebate given to both individual and corporate taxpayers in the U.S. state of Oregon when a revenue surplus exists. The Oregon Cons...
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State revenue officials have until December 15 to mail out $1.6 million in checks, which will average $612. ... Oregon's one-of-a-kind "kicker" law calls for refunds to be kicked back to individual taxpayers when state tax collections are more than 2 percent above projections.
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The Oregon Department of Revenue says the notice is for Oregonians who filed electronically and claim that their tax rebates were donated to the State School Fund against their wishes to get their money back. ... After kicker checks began arriving in mailboxes earlier this month, complaints starting pouring in.
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Kicker checks are in the final stages of printing in Salem, and a Department of Revenue spokesperson said they must be in the mail by December 15. ... This year's kicker pool is $1.1 billion, split over 1.7 million Oregon taxpayers. By law, when state revenues exceed 2% of projections over a two year period,
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SALEM, Ore. -- Oregon taxpayers who claim their "kicker" tax rebates were mistakenly donated to the State School Fund will get their money back. ... Nearly 6,000 got thank-you letters instead of checks even though they had not checked a box on their tax forms making the donation to Oregon schools.
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The so called "kicker" checks could trigger $100 million in donations to charities, experts say. ... Some groups are still preparing their kicker-related efforts. Children First for Oregon, for example, plans to add an Internet site this week called kickerforkids.org that will ask supporters to not only donate their own...
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