Measure 103: Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Grocery Tax Ban In 2018 Oregon Election
November 7, 2018 | 1 min to read
Oregon voters have again rejected an initiative that would have overhauled the state's tax system.
This time it was Measure 103, which would have prohibited most new taxes on grocers and banned soda taxes anywhere in the state. The initiative was losing 42 percent to 58 percent Tuesday with more than 1.3 million votes counted.
Measure 103 was in large part a reaction to Measure 97, the failed, union-backed initiative from 2016 that sought to raise $3 billion a year with a broad tax on business revenue. Legislators have subsequently considered a similar gross-receipts tax, albeit on a much smaller scale.
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