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Amazon received $483 million in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants from Oregon communities for 32 projects.
Advocacy group Good Jobs First, which opposes such subsidies, found Oregon provided the fifth-highest amount of grants and breaks among U.S. states to the nearly $1-trillion company.
Oregon is ranked behind Washington (10 projects/$609 million) and ahead of Texas (13 projects/$306 million), Ohio (14 projects/$172 million), and Tennessee (20 projects/$166 million).
The most expensive subsidy provided in Oregon was by the Hermison government, which offered $176 million to Amazon in a 15-year property tax abatement for five data centers.
The second largest subsidy was worth $42 million property tax abatements in Morrow.
There was one development which received an undisclosed subsidy amount.
Oregon has many programs aiming to attract big corporations to invest in the state, specially high-tech projects, such as Apple, Amazon and Google.
Oregon does not have a sales tax, instead relying on income and property taxes. This means any subsidies reducing what a company pays in income or property tax has a significant impact on the state budget, requiring more to be spent by average taxpayers.
As of Nov. 17, 2022, Amazon had received 310 separate tax break deals from local and state governments across the U.S., totaling $5.14 billion. The state of Virginia was home to the largest portion of these taxpayer-subsidized Amazon projects.
| State | # Projects | Total Subsidy |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 20 | $824,291,799 |
| Illinois | 16 | $732,973,199 |
| New York | 22 | $671,446,986 |
| Washington | 10 | $608,644,670 |
| Oregon | 32 | $483,459,645 |
| Texas | 13 | $305,959,751 |
| Ohio | 14 | $172,418,555 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $166,030,438 |
| Kentucky | 21 | $111,789,976 |
| Missouri | 2 | $110,600,000 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $86,979,275 |
| California | 12 | $84,541,000 |
| Michigan | 5 | $82,352,146 |
| Maryland | 3 | $68,425,000 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $64,297,962 |
| Indiana | 15 | $60,389,500 |
| Alabama | 2 | $56,500,000 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $54,135,500 |
| Louisiana | 7 | $48,967,587 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $45,422,240 |
| Florida | 13 | $43,239,475 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $37,700,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | $31,186,975 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $29,557,871 |
| Georgia | 5 | $27,115,929 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $23,925,795 |
| Iowa | 2 | $22,400,000 |
| Kansas | 2 | $21,802,522 |
| Colorado | 9 | $15,779,091 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $11,207,651 |
| Utah | 3 | $9,780,226 |
| Delaware | 2 | $7,972,500 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $5,700,000 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $5,244,071 |
| Arizona | 2 | $5,139,671 |
| Nevada | 5 | $3,251,324 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $2,700,000 |
| Maine | 11 | $578,828 |
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