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File and pay your Arts Tax
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File your Arts Tax return online. Pay your tax due with Visa, Mastercard, Discover Card, ACH payment, or mail a check or money order. Make a donation to the Arts Education & Access Fund.
File your withholding tax returns
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Employers and payroll service providers must file quarterly returns and annual reconciliation returns for the Metro Supporting Housing Services (SHS) and Multnomah County Preschool For All (PFA) withholding tax programs with the City of Portland's Revenue Division.
Pay your business tax
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Portland Business License Tax (and related surcharges and fees), Multnomah County Business Income Tax, and Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax are paid through the City of Portland. Make quarterly or extension payments, pay a tax bill, or make a general tax payment.
Pay your personal tax
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Metro Supporting Housing Services (SHS) and Multnomah County Preschool for All (PFA) Personal Income Tax programs are paid to the City of Portland's Revenue Division. Make an estimated payment, extension payment, or return payment.
Register for a Revenue Division Tax Account
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Businesses that are subject to the Portland Business License Tax, Portland Transient Lodgings Tax, Multnomah County Business Income Tax, and/or the Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax are required to register for a Revenue Division tax account.
Remit withholding tax payments
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Employers and payroll service providers must submit Metro Supporting Housing Services (SHS) and Multnomah County Preschool For All (PFA) Personal Income Tax withholdings to the City of Portland's Revenue Division.
Request a refund for an Arts Tax overpayment
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If you made an overpayment, duplicate payment, or made a payment when no Arts Tax was due, you must request a refund.
Apply for a Payday Lender Permit
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Each payday lender location within the cities of Portland, Gresham, or Oregon City needs a payday lender permit. These permits must be renewed every year and are all paid through the City of Portland.
Businesses that buy and sell property that is frequently the subject of theft (“regulated property”) must apply for a secondhand dealers permit. This permit needs to be renewed annually and is nontransferable.
Apply for a Social Games permit
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The City’s Social Games Permit Program regulates the operators of social games, restricting location, age, dollar amount of play, and other rules to protect the public peace, safety, and morals. A person or business that wants to operate a social game must have a permit from the Revenue Division.
Businesses, including vendors and promoters, doing business over a very limited term in Portland must apply for a temporary business license from the City of Portland's Revenue Division.
Any business that offers games which cost money or other valuable consideration to play must apply for a permit and pay a fee. A permit is required whether or not the business owns the devices. Permits expire on December 31 and must be renewed each year.
Eligible businesses may apply for the Downtown Business Incentive credit if they enter into a new lease, renew a current lease, or own and occupy building space in a sub-district of Portland's central city and meet other annual requirements.
If you sold your business, changed your tax entity, or stopped your business activity in the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and/or the Metro jurisdictions, you must notify the Revenue Division to close your tax account(s).
If you have stopped all of your transient lodgings activity (including advertising short term rentals) in the City of Portland, you must notify the Revenue Division.
If you received a loan from a payday lender and you have a complaint, please fill out the complaint form below and mail it to the City of Portland.
File a Delivery Fee Complaint
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Restaurants or delivery drivers may file a complaint if a third-party platform (Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, etc.) charges a higher fee than the allowed amount on an order.
Booking Agents, like Airbnb or FlipKey, must file transient lodgings monthly reports with the Revenue Division.
File your business tax returns
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Businesses subject to the Portland Business License Tax, Multnomah County Business Income Tax, Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax, and/or Clean Energy Surcharge (CES) must file a business tax return. You must claim an exemption from the business taxes on the tax return.
C corporations subject to the Portland Business License Tax, Multnomah County Business Income Tax, Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax, and/or Clean Energy Surcharge (CES) must file a business tax return. You must claim an exemption from the business taxes on the tax return.
Operators of hotel/motel lodgings must file transient lodgings quarterly or monthly reports with the Revenue Division.
Online travel companies (OTCs), like Expedia or Priceline, must file transient lodgings monthly reports with the Revenue Division.
Partnerships subject to the Portland Business License Tax, Multnomah County Business Income Tax, Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax, and/or Clean Energy Surcharge (CES) must file a business tax return. You must claim an exemption from the business taxes on the tax return.
File your personal tax returns
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Individuals subject to the Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Personal Income Tax and/or Multnomah County Preschool for All (PFA) Personal Income Tax must file a personal income tax return.
S corporations subject to the Portland Business License Tax, Multnomah County Business Income Tax, Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Business Income Tax, and/or Clean Energy Surcharge (CES) must file a business tax return. You must claim an exemption from the business taxes on the tax return.
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