CPA in Portland, OR — remote tax preparation from a Washington-licensed CPA.

Here's a detail a lot of out-of-area preparers miss entirely: Portland-area residents can owe two separate local income taxes on top of Oregon's state income tax. The Metro Supportive Housing Services tax applies a 1% rate on personal taxable income above $125,000 (single) or $200,000 (joint) across the greater Portland Metro area, and the Multnomah County Preschool for All tax applies 1.5% above the same $125,000/$200,000 thresholds, plus an additional 1.5% above $250,000 (single) or $400,000 (joint) for Multnomah County residents specifically. Both are administered through the City of Portland's Revenue Division, separately from your Oregon state return. A lot of higher-income Portland taxpayers are surprised these exist at all.

Creative freelancers and small business owners — designers, media producers, makers — deal with the same federal self-employment tax and irregular-income planning questions as any 1099 professional, but Portland's freelance-heavy creative economy means it comes up constantly here. Quarterly estimated taxes sized to genuinely uneven project income, not a guess, is where a lot of the real value sits.

Restaurants, breweries, and food carts operate on thin margins where federal equipment depreciation elections — Section 179 expensing and bonus depreciation on kitchen and brewing equipment — and correct treatment of tips and service charges under federal payroll rules genuinely affect the bottom line. These are federal rules that apply the same way in Portland as anywhere else, but they're easy to get wrong without industry-specific attention.

Oregon has its own state income tax (with no sales tax anywhere in the state) and, as covered above, Portland adds local income taxes on top of it — genuinely more layered than most cities we cover. We coordinate your Oregon and Portland local returns as part of a full engagement, but deep, ongoing Oregon state-tax strategy isn't the focus of this page the way Washington tax content is on our Washington city pages, because our license is Washington-issued. What we bring is the same CPA-level review as everything else we prepare, coordinated together.