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NCAA final —UConn women roll to title No. 8.C1
High-flying company — Mountain High Equipment & SupplyofRedmond supplies aviation pioneers.C6 By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
Korea rhetoric —Whatex-
SALEM — Oregon Democrats unveiled details of a plan Tuesday to raise state taxes by $275 million, primarily by increasing taxes on higher-income earners and corporations.
"This is a starting point in a conversation about how we fund schools by cutting generous tax breaks that benefit corporations and the wealthy," Rep. Phil Barnhart, D-Eugene, who chairs the House Revenue Committee, said in a statement.
But Republican House Leader Mike McLane, RPowell Butte, who saw the tax package for the first time Tuesday, blasted the plan and the assertion that taxes needed to be raised at all. McLane pointed to a projected increase in state
revenue and said the Legislature wouldn't need a tax hike if Democrats would push for more substantial cuts to the state public employees pension system. He called the Democrats' approach "sadly predictable." SeeTax plan/A5
actly is Kim Jong Un's angle?
While experts ponder, Pyongyang plays it calm.A5
Soar sector work, once ce ebrated, wi move By Tim Doran and Rachael Rees The Bulletin
Advanced Energy Industries will consolidate its Bend solar-inverter manufacturing with its invertermaking operations in Fort Collins, Colo., where the
company is based. News of the consolidation surfaced Tuesday morning when Advanced Energy executivesheld a conference call with analysts to announce the company's purchase of REFUsol Holding, a German invertermaker.
The Masters —Somegreat golfers have neverclaimed a green jacket. Who are the five best?C1
Chlplets —Flexible smart-
Advanced Energy began
phones? Bandages that check your medical info? A new tech-
operations in Bend when it bought PV Powered in 2010. The purchase of the German company allows Advanced Energy to speed up some cost-cutting measures the company began in 2011, Danny Herron, executive vice president and chief financial officer, told analysts on the conference call. "In particular, we are consolidating our factory in Bend, Oregon, into our Fort Collins facility," Herron said. The information was also included in a document on Advanced Energy's website. SeeAdvanced/A5
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In national news — A showdown vote on guncontrol could happen later this
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To get an accountant to prepare an itemized federal return — Form1040 and Schedule A — along with a state return cost an average
of about $246 nationally in 2012, according to a survey released in January by theNational Society of Accountants. Thecost was
And a Wed exclusive"This is where it gets rough": Inside the college admissions
nearly 6 percent more than in 2010. Preparing non-itemized federal and state returns cost an average of about $128 last year, and
taxpayers in Oregonand other Pacific states paid more, on average, than other regions of the country, the survey showed.
process with what hurts and what helps.
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Networks circle the wagons over Aereo By Brian Stelter
who need assistance to file both federal
When Chase Carey, Rupert Murdoch's top deputy at News Corp., told broadcasters on Monday about his contingency plan to turn the Fox network into something only available on cable, he knew policymakers would be listening, too. But a few were tied up at the time, meeting with Chet Kanojia, the very man who provoked Carey's stark warning. Kanojia had come to Washington to sell lawmakers and reporters on the virtues of his upstart service, Aereo, which scoops up the free signals of local television stations and streams them to the phones
and computers of paying subscribers. Because Aereo cuts off the stations from the retransmission fees that they have grown dependent on, they are determined to shut down the service — even, the station owners say, if they have to take their signals off the airwaves to do so. Carey's suggestion was dismissed by some as a hollow threat intended to scare the courts — which have ruledtwice in favor ofA ereo so far — and maybe prod congressional action. But it revealed a lot about the state of broadcasting in an age when wireless companiesinstead of TV stations — are
snapping up spectrum and using it to deliver Internet services like Aereo. SeeStreaming /A5
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IN-PERSONHELP Bend:The Downtown Bend Public Library
will offer free tax help for individuals today at10 a.m., Saturday at noon, Sunday at noon and Monday at11 a.m. Visit www.
deschuteslibrary.org/bend/for more information.
Redmond:United Waywill offer free tax preparation clinics today from 4 to 7 p.m. with certified volunteers to help those and state tax returns; appointments requested; M.A. Lynch Elementary
School, 1314 S.W.KalamaAve., Redmond; 541-389-6507.
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Bend resident Dayton Herron, 87, center, points out information to AARP Foundation volunteer Dorothy Hilts, 83, also of Bend, as she helps him with his taxes during a free tax help and e-filing session Monday at the Bend Senior Center.
Lawmaker 'lent a hand with a smile' By Lauren Dake and Scott Hammers The Bulletin
•.. meanwhile, afewtax facts The IRS collects some demographic data on taxpayers. The most recent statistics available are for taxpayers who filed in 2011. For
comparison, data from 2005 is shown in parentheses (2005).
In Deschutes County,71,253
(63,245) individual taxpayers (or spouses filing jointly) filed returns for their 2010 income. Fifty-six percent
(58 percent) used paid preparers to file their returns. Of the total number of returns, 48 percent were e-filed. Seventy-
InCrook
In Jefferson
Thethree
InOregon,1,678,794
County, 8,359 (8,321)
County, 9,720 (9,395) taxpayers
counties combined
(1,545,120)returnswere filed. Fifty-one percent (53 percent) usedpaid
filed returns.
(80,961) returns, preparers. Of the total 57 percent number of returns, 43 (59 percent) of percent were e-filed. which used paid Twenty-eight percentof preparers. Forty- taxpayers usedpaper
taxpayers filed returns. Sixty-
filed 89,332
one percent (62 percent) used paid preparers.
Sixty percent (60 percent) used paid preparers. Of
Of the total
number of
the total number nine percent of of returns, 51 the total number
returns, 55
percent were e- of returns were
percent weree-
filed. Seventy-
e-filed. Seventy-
eight percent (78 percent) oftaxpayers received a refund.
four percent (72 percent) of taxpayers received a refund.
filed. Seventy-
four percent (71 four percent percent) of taxpayers (72 percent) received a refund. oftaxpayers received a
forms, while 29 percent
used anonline tool. Eleven percentuseda computerto generate theirtaxformsand
then filed usingpaper. Seventy-sevenpercent (74 percent) receiveda refund.
refund.
Nationally,138,917,662 (128,852,668) returns
were filed. Fifty-nine percent(61 percent) of taxpayers used apaid tax preparer. Ofthe total number of returns, 48
percent weree-filed. Twenty-six percent of taxpayers usedpaper forms and 26percent used an online tool. Thirteen percent used
a computer to generate their taxformsand then flled uslng paper.
Eighty percent (79 percent) received a refund.
Source:IRS
Andy Zeigert /The Bulletin
SALEM — Former Oregon House Speaker Lynn Lundquist wanted to be remembered as a man who gave more than he took. On Tuesday morning in Powell Butte, the family man, the rancher, the state and county politician, died. He was 78. And by all accounts, his death ended a legacy of Lundq uist
giving: to his family, to his community and to the state. House Republican Leader Mike McLane, also of Powell Butte, said Lundquist was the neighbor always on hand, ready to build a fence or help burn brush. He "lent a hand with a smile," McLane said. "That was
Lynn's way."
Crook County Judge Mike McCabe, who sat on county court with Lundquist, put it this way: "He was always just trying to
be everywhere, helping everybody." See Lundquist/A5
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