(1) Once a RSIS has been designated and a Sponsor has been certified and a tax reimbursement agreement is established, the Sponsor must submit the following information to the Department by Jan 1 of each year, starting the tax year after an employer hires employees:
- (a) A complete list of any employers, including their business identification numbers, conducting traded-sector business on the designated RSIS during the previous year.
- (b) A complete list and description of any site preparation costs incurred during the previous year; see 123-097-1000 (2)(c).
(2) The Department will determine:
- (a) Which employers are conducting a traded sector business according to ORS 285A.010.
- (b) Which employers have met the ORS 285B.626(1)(b) threshold requirements by examining the 50 (urban site) or 25 (rural site) highest-paid employees, averaging the wages of those individuals, then comparing that figure to the threshold of 150 percent of the state or county wage average wage, whichever is less.
- (c) Which Sponsor site preparation costs are eligible.
(3) For each tax year, the Department will calculate the estimated incremental income tax revenues at the RSIS based on the following:
- (a) Wages and hours data received from the Oregon Employment Department as reported by employers on the Oregon Quarterly Tax Report required by law. Missing information for a tax year will be included in the following tax year.
- (b) Individual employees will be placed into assumed tax brackets, based on actual hours worked and wages paid.
- (c) Assumed tax rates times actual wages paid will be calculated for individual employees, then summed for each employer.
- (4) For each tax year, the Department shall notify Sponsor of the amount to be transferred to the Sponsor under a tax reimbursement agreement, and the balance of site preparation costs to be carried over to subsequent tax years.
Statutory/Other Authority
ORS 285A.075 & 285B.627(10)
Statutes/Other Implemented
ORS 285B.625, 285B.626, 285B.627 & 285B.630
History
OBDD 11-2018, amend filed 04/17/2018, effective 04/17/2018
OBDD 4-2017, temporary suspend filed 11/28/2017, effective 11/28/2017 through 05/25/2018
OBDD 9-2014, f. 4-30-14, cert. ef. 5-1-14