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The Bend City Council has approved a measure asking residents to vote on a 3 percent tax on marijuana sales.  The City Council says users will be paying lower tax overall as the State’s 25% tax will be reduced to 17% in January 2017.  If approved, the total tax would be 20%.  Watch the City Council’s discussion here:

This article appears in Aug 3-10, 2016.

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Bend Marijuana Tax Vote – November 8

by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 5, 2016

<h1>Bend Marijuana Tax Vote – November 8</h1> <p class="byline">by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />August 5, 2016</p> <p>The Bend City Council has approved a measure asking residents to vote on a 3 percent tax on marijuana sales. &nbsp;The City Council says users will be paying lower tax overall as the State's 25% tax will be reduced to 17% in January 2017. &nbsp;If approved, the total tax would be 20%. &nbsp;Watch the City Council's discussion here:<br /> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> </div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-marijuana-tax-vote-november-8-2745732/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=38694&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/bend-marijuana-tax-vote-november-8-2745732/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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