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Archive Home > 2005 > July > 16 > Lawmakers want utilities to cease taxing ratepayers

Lawmakers want utilities to cease taxing ratepayers

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
July 16, 2005

SALEM - Some say it's an Enron-like tax scam by Oregon's privately held utilities; others say it's just business.

Utilities are collecting in customers' rates more than $100 million a year, ostensibly to pay for state and federal taxes. Yet, those companies have paid almost nothing into....

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