CPA services for Vancouver, WA — built around the Oregon border, not despite it.

Oregon taxes nonresidents only on Oregon-source income. If you live in Vancouver and commute to a job in Portland, Oregon can tax the wages you earn for work physically performed there, even though Washington taxes none of your wage income at all. If your work is split between the two states, Oregon generally apportions your taxable wages by the ratio of days worked in Oregon to total days worked — which makes accurate day-count records genuinely useful at filing time, not just an audit-defense afterthought. Because Washington has no income tax, there is no Washington-side credit to claim and none needed: you simply owe Oregon tax on the Oregon-sourced share and nothing to Washington on wages either way.

Vancouver itself just added a new wrinkle for local businesses. Effective January 1, 2026, the City of Vancouver enacted its own Business & Occupation tax — a first for the city — at 0.1% on gross retail receipts, applying specifically to retail sales and retail service businesses (wholesalers, manufacturers, and extractors are excluded, at a 0% rate). Businesses with $50,000 or less in annual retail receipts, or $12,500 or less in a quarter, owe no tax under the threshold, though a return still has to be filed. The city has stated the revenue is earmarked for a new homeless bridge shelter — a useful detail if a client asks what the tax actually funds.

None of that replaces Washington’s state-level taxes, which still apply in Vancouver exactly as everywhere else: the state B&O tax (0.471% retailing, 0.484% wholesaling and manufacturing, and the tiered Service & Other rate — 1.5% under $1 million, 1.75% to $5 million, 2.1% above — effective October 1, 2025), and the state capital gains tax (7% up to $1,000,000 of gain above the $278,000 2025 standard deduction, 9.9% above that) for individuals with investment or business-sale gains.