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Oregon state income tax: engine rules, 2026

How the QuantCalc engine computes Oregon tax for tax year 2026, rule by rule, with the official source for each rule. Verification status: Worksheet-tested (what this means).

On this page: How the tax is computed · Rate schedule · Deductions, exemptions and credits · Social Security · IRA, 401(k) and private pensions · Public pensions · Military retirement pay · Roth conversions · Capital gains · Interaction with the federal return · Blindness and disability · Part-year and nonresident returns · Worked examples · After 2026 · Not calculated · Verification. Machine-readable: this state's entry in the engine config and the provenance file (key OR).

How the tax is computed

Every step the engine takes for Oregon, in the order it takes them. Steps marked with a filing status or household type apply only there. Each step links the section below that carries Oregon's figures and the official sources for it; the calculation order page describes every step for all jurisdictions.

What each filing status gets, read back from the engine for a household with $1 of income (so below every phase-out and income test):

SingleMarried filing jointlyMarried filing separatelyHead of household
Rate schedule usedsingle schedulejoint schedulejoint schedule, thresholds halvedhead-of-household schedule
Top rate9.9% from $125,0009.9% from $250,0009.9% from $125,0009.9% from $250,000
Standard deduction, under 65$2,910$5,820$2,910$4,560
Standard deduction at 70 (joint: both 70)$4,110$7,820$3,910$5,760
Personal exemptionnonenonenonenone
Age subtractions at 70 (joint: both 70)nonenonenonenone
  1. Per-person mode joint returns with the spouse's age given On a joint return with the spouse's age given, every age test the state applies per taxpayer is evaluated for each spouse at their own age. Without it one household age applies to both.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The engine cannot know the second spouse's age unless told.
  2. Blindness and disability, per person only when the caller says a person is blind or disabled The filer is person one; the spouse counts only on a joint return and only when the caller says so (there is no household convention as for age). Where a state lets a disabled person (and, where it says so, a blind one, or one whose spouse is disabled) qualify for its general retirement exclusion before the age, that person is treated as having reached the age for that exclusion only. Of the 42 taxing jurisdictions, these have a blind amount: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Virginia; these have none: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wisconsin. A disability route is calculated in Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon and West Virginia.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Who is blind or disabled is the caller's statement; the engine has no household convention for it.
  3. Rate schedule and standard deduction by filing status Single uses the single schedule and deduction; married filing jointly the joint ones. Head of household and married filing separately follow the two steps below.
    Oregon's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  4. Married filing separately Where the state publishes its own separate schedule, that one (with half the joint deduction unless a separate deduction is set). Where one schedule applies to every status, that schedule unscaled with the single deduction. Otherwise the joint schedule with every threshold and the deduction halved (computed as the joint tax on twice the income, halved).
    Oregon's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  5. Head of household The state's head-of-household schedule where it has one, else the single schedule; the head-of-household deduction where set, else the single deduction.
    Oregon's values · engine step (select_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  6. The income total every income test uses Other ordinary income + retirement distributions (before any exclusion) + conversion + federally taxable Social Security + long-term gains + Railroad Retirement Tier 2. It stands in for federal adjusted gross income in every threshold, cliff and phase-out below; state subtractions do not reduce it.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The inputs are the federal AGI components, so their sum is federal AGI for these income types.
  7. Attributing income to each spouse joint returns with each spouse's own amounts given With a caller's split (the API's spouse object), each spouse's own distributions (employer-plan money included), pension, public pension, conversion, wages and military pay; spouse 2's shares are clamped into the household totals and spouse 1 gets the rest. Without a split, in per-person mode, every item is divided 50/50. Social Security is divided by each spouse's own gross benefits where the caller gives spouse.socialSecurityGross, else 50/50; other ordinary income and gains are always divided 50/50 where a rule needs a per-person amount. The split is used only where a state's rule is per taxpayer; household totals stay authoritative for the base and the income tests.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Equal attribution is the neutral split when the owner of a dollar is not known.
  8. Keeping the per-spouse shares inside the household joint returns with each spouse's own amounts given After the public-pension and employer-pension carve-outs, if the two spouses' remaining shares add up to more than the household's exclusion-eligible distributions (an inconsistent split), spouse 1's share is reduced so they do not.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Input normalisation.
  9. Military retirement pay The state's military rule runs first, on military pay alone, per taxpayer: each spouse's own pay at their own age when attributed, otherwise half each at the household age on a joint return. Exempt dollars leave the base; the rest become pension dollars for the general retirement rules. Where the state lets a disabled retiree qualify at any age, a disabled person is treated as having reached the rule's age.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Military retirement pay): Publication or 17 101 431 2025 (checked 2026-10-12)
  10. Capital-loss deduction off the base The deduction comes off the other ordinary income (negative income, as Form 1040 line 7a is), so the base and every state-AGI figure summed from it carry it; WI no more than Wisconsin ordinary income (Schedule WD line 28(c)). States whose base is federal taxable income (with the caller's figure) already have it there and take it only once. Engine 1.13.1: the allowed rental loss comes off the same way, on its own line (rental_loss_deduction).
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  11. Social Security exempt None of the federally taxable benefit enters the base.
    Oregon's values · engine step (ss_amount_in_state_base). Sources (Social Security): 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  12. Retirement exclusion (household) The distributions eligible for the exclusion go through the exclusion below. Taxable public-pension dollars left by a cap are not eligible; below the IRA age only employer-plan dollars are.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (IRA, 401(k) and private pensions): 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  13. Conversion taxed or exempt In full-exclusion states a conversion is exempt at the qualifying age (at any age where the state says so). Elsewhere, unless pooled above, it is ordinary income taxed in full.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Roth conversions): 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  14. Long-term gains in the base Where gains are taxed as ordinary income: net long-term gain less the flat exclusion (never below zero), times the inclusion share. Elsewhere none enters.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  15. Additional standard deduction at 65 The unmarried amount for a single or head-of-household filer 65 or older, the married amount for each spouse 65 or older, added to the standard deduction before any phase-out.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12); Enrolled Senate Bill 1507 (2026), Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 142 (Internet Archive copy) (checked 2026-10-01)
  16. Additional standard deduction for blindness only when the caller says a person is blind or disabled The unmarried amount for a blind single or head-of-household filer, the married amount for each blind spouse, added to the standard deduction before any phase-out. Age and blindness are separate boxes, so a person 65 or older and blind gets both.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Blindness and disability): 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); ORS chapter 316 (archived copy) (checked 2026-10-12)
  17. State taxable income Other ordinary income + Social Security, retirement income, conversion and gains left in the base − standard deduction − personal exemption − age subtractions.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: The order of subtraction follows the state forms; each amount is sourced at its own step.
  18. Federal income tax deduction only when the caller supplies federal tax Only when the caller supplies federal tax. Full: the federal tax plus the net investment income tax. Capped: the federal tax (without the net investment income tax where the state says so) up to the cap, which loses 20% of itself for each band of income from the start (joint and head-of-household returns on the joint bands, separate returns half the cap). Where the state subtracts them (the full deduction), less the federal refundable credits the caller gives, never below zero.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Interaction with the federal return): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  19. No tax at or below zero State taxable income at or below zero returns a tax of 0 (credits are not refundable), unless the state has a tax computed apart from taxable income that still applies (next step).
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Every credit the engine carries is nonrefundable, so nothing below can make a zero tax negative; each credit is sourced at its own step.
  20. Separate-return scaling married filing separately For the halved-joint rule, taxable income is doubled before the schedule and the result halved.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  21. The rate schedule Each bracket's rate on the part of taxable income inside it, summed. No rounding: the result is carried in full precision.
    Oregon's values · engine step (apply_state_brackets). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  22. Per-exemption credit The credit per exemption: two on a joint return, one otherwise, or the state's own count for a head of household. Where the state sets an income limit there is no credit above it (the joint limit for joint returns and heads of household).
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12); Enrolled Senate Bill 1507 (2026), Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 142 (Internet Archive copy) (checked 2026-10-01)
  23. Credit per dependent only when the caller lists dependents A credit per dependent, under the same income cutoff and phase-out as the personal credits where the state has them (each dependent credit loses the same amount per step, floored as a group).
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12); Enrolled Senate Bill 1507 (2026), Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 142 (Internet Archive copy) (checked 2026-10-01)
  24. Child credits only when the caller lists dependents A credit per dependent at or under the child age and another per older dependent; none above an income limit where there is one; where the credit is a share of the federal child tax credit, the share of the federal credit the household is allowed (the nonrefundable part up to the federal tax, the refundable part from earned income); reduced per dollar over a threshold, or by a percentage per thousand dollars over a start, where the state says so. Also a credit per disabled dependent child at or under an age, while income is at most the limit. Where the state says so, the child credit is prorated by the state AGI (the base before deductions) over the federal AGI when the state AGI is lower. The federal tax that limits the nonrefundable part is the tax before credits when given; with only the tax after the nonrefundable credits, any tax left means the whole credit was allowed, and none left means the nonrefundable part is taken as zero. Where the state says so, the refundable part for three or more children is the larger of the earned-income route and the Social-Security-tax route.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12); Enrolled Senate Bill 1507 (2026), Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 142 (Internet Archive copy) (checked 2026-10-01)
  25. Retiree credits The retirement income credit by the retirement income left in the base (one per return) and a senior credit per return, both while income less exemptions is under the limit; the retirement income credit on the pension income of the persons at the age, at most the base less all Social Security and less household income over the household base; and the senior head of household credit on taxable income, at most the cap, for a filer at the age whose head-of-household qualifying person died in one of the two previous years, while income is at most the limit.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources: Oregon Department of Revenue: form-or-40-inst_101-040-1_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: withholding-tax-formulas_206-436_2026.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12)
  26. Credit for severe disability only when the caller says a person is blind or disabled One more credit for each disabled person (where the state says so, each blind person too: one per person either way) while the income total is at most the limit.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Blindness and disability): 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); ORS chapter 316 (archived copy) (checked 2026-10-12)
  27. Credits cannot make the tax negative The credits are subtracted and the result floored at zero.
    engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Engine convention, no external source: Every credit the engine carries is nonrefundable; each credit is sourced at its own step.
  28. Qualifying surviving spouse qualifying surviving spouse returns A qualifying surviving spouse (filingStatus qss) is one person on the return, taxed from the single figures with the state's own treatment of the status laid over them: where the state says so, the joint rate schedule, the joint standard deduction, the joint personal exemption, the joint income limits and phase-outs (only those the state sets for joint returns), the married 65+ and blindness amounts, or the head-of-household return; where the state gives the status nothing of its own, the single return. The federal figures the engine derives for the status are the federal qualifying-surviving-spouse ones (the joint standard deduction, the married 65+ amount).
    Oregon's values · engine step (state_tax_effective_config). Sources (Rate schedule): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  29. Railroad Retirement benefits only when the caller gives Railroad Retirement benefits Railroad Retirement benefits are never taxed by a state (45 U.S.C. §231m). Tier 2 (railroadRetirementTier2) is in the income total the tests use but never in the base. Tier 1 (railroadRetirementTier1) is a part of the gross benefits (socialSecurityGross); its share of the taxable benefits is taken out of the Social Security every state rule sees, so a state that taxes Social Security never reaches it. Where a state's worksheet says so, the benefits reduce a retirement cap or subtraction (ID, IN, MD, ME, MN: both tiers; MI: the taxable railroad benefits); Minnesota's and Utah's Social Security rules test an income without them, Minnesota's, New Jersey's and California's retirement income tests an income without Tier 2; Ohio and Delaware test their own AGI everywhere, which never holds the benefits.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Social Security): 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  30. The capital-loss deduction the state allows With a net capital loss (capitalLoss): the smaller of the loss and the state's limit (the federal $3,000 / $1,500 where the state follows the federal return; MA $2,000, and no more than the interest and dividends); AL the loss less the part carried in, unlimited; PA and NJ none. It comes off the income total the income tests use (and the Social Security worksheets' income); the gross-income filing test (LA) reads the total before it. Engine 1.13.1: with a rental loss (rentalNetIncome below 0, the federal Schedule E line 26 amount) the state allows, the whole loss where the state starts from federal AGI or follows the federal schedule, none in PA and NJ (rental_loss_no_offset): it comes off the same income the same way; a rental profit is other ordinary income.
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Capital gains): 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses (checked 2026-10-12)
  31. Each spouse's own Social Security joint returns On a joint return, each spouse's own Social Security is the spouse's share of the benefits by spouse.socialSecurityGross when the caller gives it (Tier 1 railroad benefits left out), else half each. It is what the per-spouse rules read: Colorado's per-spouse subtraction, Rhode Island's per-spouse modification, and the Maine, Maryland and other retirement caps reduced by the benefits each spouse received (with each spouse's own railroad benefits where the state counts them).
    Oregon's values · engine step (compute_state_tax_detail). Sources (Social Security): 2025 Publication OR-17, Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (150-101-431, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12)
  32. Refundable state credits The credits paid beyond the tax (reported in refundableCredits; netTax = totalTax less them): earned income credits as a share of the federal EIC with each state's own age band (OK on the 2020 federal credit, DC's own childless schedule, the CalEITC table, MN's Working Family Credit), the NYC EIC and school tax credits, and the property-tax, renter, grocery and senior credits of MA, MI, NJ, ID, HI, NM, OK, AZ, NY, RI, WV, ME, DC, MN, MO, WI, IN and MT, each on its own income measure. Engine 1.13.1: a part-year NYC resident's school tax credits (the Table 2 proration chart and the rate-reduction amount on IT-360.1 line 47; IT-203 lines 60 / 60a for a part-year state resident).
    Oregon's values · engine step (state_tax_refundable_credits). Sources (Deductions, exemptions and credits): Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas, effective January 1, 2026 (150-206-436, Rev. 12-31-25) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (150-101-040-1, Rev. 01-29-26) (checked 2026-10-12); 2025 Form OR-40 instructions (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Department of Revenue: publication-or-17_101-431_2025.pdf (checked 2026-10-12); Oregon Legislature: ors316.html (checked 2026-10-12); Enrolled Senate Bill 1507 (2026), Oregon Laws 2026 chapter 142 (Internet Archive copy) (checked 2026-10-01)

Rate schedule

Single

Taxable income fromtoRate
$0$4,5504.75%
$4,550$11,4006.75%
$11,400$125,0008.75%
$125,000and up9.9%

Married filing jointly

Taxable income fromtoRate
$0$9,1004.75%
$9,100$22,8006.75%
$22,800$250,0008.75%
$250,000and up9.9%

Head of household

Taxable income fromtoRate
$0$9,1004.75%
$9,100$22,8006.75%
$22,800$250,0008.75%
$250,000and up9.9%

Married filing separately: the engine computes the MFJ tax on twice the income and halves it, which is the same as halving every MFJ threshold and the MFJ deduction.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Deductions, exemptions and credits

  • Standard deduction (or the exemption the engine carries in its place): $2,910 single, $5,820 married filing jointly, $4,560 head of household.
  • The standard deduction includes $1,200 more for a single or head-of-household filer 65 or older, and $1,000 more for each spouse 65 or older on a married return.
  • Nonrefundable credit of $263 per exemption (one for single, two for MFJ).
  • No exemption credit once federal adjusted gross income is over $100,000 (single and married filing separately) or $200,000 (married filing jointly and head of household).

Social Security

Social Security benefits are fully exempt: none of the federally taxable amount enters the state base.

API value: socialSecurityRule: "exempt". The engine's input is the federally taxable amount; income tests use the sum of the income components as the adjusted-gross-income proxy.

IRA, 401(k) and private pensions

  • No exclusion: pension, annuity and IRA/401(k) distributions are taxed as ordinary income.

Public pensions

No separate treatment: public pensions follow the rules for other retirement income above.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Military retirement pay

  • No military-specific rule: military retirement pay is pension income under the general retirement rules above.
  • Rules are applied per taxpayer at that person's own age when the spouse's age is given. API value: rules.militaryRetirement.treatment: "taxable_as_pension".

Roth conversions

A conversion is taxed as ordinary income in full. It does not draw any retirement-income exclusion.

Capital gains

  • Net long-term gain is taxed as ordinary income.
  • Short-term gains are ordinary income.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Interaction with the federal return

  • Federal income tax (excluding the net investment income tax) is deductible up to $8,750. The cap falls by 20% for each $5,000 of income from $125,000 (single and married filing separately; $10,000 from $250,000 for joint and head-of-household returns). Married filing separately gets half the cap. Applies only when the caller supplies federalTax.

Source review notes (what the sources do not state outright, or what the engine does not carry):

Blindness and disability

  • The standard deduction includes $1,200 more for a blind single or head-of-household filer and $1,000 more for each blind spouse on a married return. Age and blindness are separate: a person 65 or older and blind gets both amounts.
  • One more credit of $263 for each person with a severe disability while federal adjusted gross income is at most $100,000.
  • The API applies these through its blind, disabled, spouse.blind and spouse.disabled fields; absent means false.

Part-year and nonresident returns

  • Part-year resident (Form OR-40-P): the tax a full-year resident would owe on all the year's income, times the state's income ratio.
  • Nonresident (Form OR-40-N): the tax on the state's own income (what was received while a resident, plus the state-source income while a nonresident), with the deductions and exemptions the form prorates scaled by its ratio.
  • The ratio: the state's own AGI (after its subtractions) of the state's income over the state AGI of the whole year, rounded to 3 places, at most 1.
  • Prorated on a nonresident return: the standard deduction, the per-person credits, the federal income tax deduction.
  • Part-year (OR-40-P): the tax × the Oregon percentage. Nonresident (OR-40-N): the deductions, the federal tax subtraction and the exemption credit × the percentage.
  • A nonresident's retirement income is not taxable by the state (4 U.S.C. §114); the API refuses it in residency.stateIncome. The credit for tax paid to another state and the earned income credits on these returns are not computed.

Married couples whose residency differs (engine 1.13.0)

With residency.spouse on a joint request, each allowed treatment is calculated and reported in residency.couple; tax is the required one, else the state's default, else the couple's residency.election, else the joint return the request's mfj names. Each rule is quoted from the state's instructions (engine 1.14.0: and its statutes, regulations, bulletins and other official guidance) in the sources below.

SpousesOregon's rule
One spouse a full-year resident, the other a part-year residentthe couple's choice: a joint part-year / nonresident return or separate returns.
One spouse a full-year resident, the other a nonresidentthe couple's choice: a joint part-year / nonresident return or separate returns.
One spouse a part-year resident, the other a nonresidentthe couple's choice: a joint part-year / nonresident return or separate returns.
Both part-year residents, different resident periodsa joint part-year / nonresident return is required.
Both nonresidents, only one with income from the statea joint part-year / nonresident return is required.

Worked examples

Computed by the engine for the fixed households below (the same ones for every state, so states compare directly). Federal tax is not supplied, so a federal-tax deduction is not taken; the income tests use the sum of the components as income.

Household (engine inputs)State tax
Single, 67: $30,000 private pension, $20,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $24,000 Social Security ($17,000 federally taxable), $5,000 long-term gain$4,745.88
Married filing jointly, 70: $40,000 public pension, $40,000 IRA, $20,000 interest, $40,000 Social Security ($34,000 federally taxable), $10,000 long-term gain$7,776.75
Single, 60: $60,000 other ordinary income and a $50,000 Roth conversion$9,051.38
Married filing jointly, 66: $30,000 IRA, a $40,000 Roth conversion, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable)$4,276.75
Single, 58: $36,000 military retirement pay and $30,000 wages$4,938.38
Married filing jointly, ages 67 and 61: $50,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable), each spouse's age given$3,489.25

Line by line

The intermediate lines the engine records while it computes each example (its detail record, printed as it comes out; lines that are zero are left out). The engine's documentation build checks that the lines add up to the taxable income and the tax, for every state, filing status and a grid of households. Each line links the engine step that produces it.

Single, 67: $30,000 private pension, $20,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $24,000 Social Security ($17,000 federally taxable), $5,000 long-term gain: $4,745.88
Married filing jointly, 70: $40,000 public pension, $40,000 IRA, $20,000 interest, $40,000 Social Security ($34,000 federally taxable), $10,000 long-term gain: $7,776.75
Single, 60: $60,000 other ordinary income and a $50,000 Roth conversion: $9,051.38
Married filing jointly, 66: $30,000 IRA, a $40,000 Roth conversion, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable): $4,276.75
Single, 58: $36,000 military retirement pay and $30,000 wages: $4,938.38
Married filing jointly, ages 67 and 61: $50,000 IRA, $10,000 interest, $30,000 Social Security ($25,500 federally taxable), each spouse's age given: $3,489.25

After 2026: how the amounts move

A request with projection (API) estimates a later tax year from these rules: every dollar amount and age test below moves the way Oregon's law moves it. Rates and the rules themselves stay the 2026 ones (how projection works).

Amounts (engine fields)After 2026What the law says, and the source
brackets_single (the single rate schedule's thresholds), brackets_mfj (the mfj rate schedule's thresholds), brackets_hoh (the hoh rate schedule's thresholds)Indexed: CPI-U (U.S. City Average, All Items), monthly average of the 12 months ending August 31 of the prior year; the increase rounded down to a multiple of $50.ORS 316.037(1)(b)-(e): the bracket amounts are increased each year by the CPI-U cost-of-living adjustment, increases rounded down to $50, EXCEPT that the bracket for taxable income over $125,000 may not be adjusted: the $125,000 top threshold (single; $250,000 joint/HOH via the ORS 316.042 split-income rule) stays nominal while the lower thresholds index.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Indexing of bracket amounts, the $125,000 exception and $50 rounding. Quoted: "the minimum and maximum dollar amounts for each bracket for which a tax is imposed shall be increased by the cost-of-living adjustment for the calendar year"; "brackets applicable to taxable income in excess of $125,000 may not be adjusted"; "the increase shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of $50". Checked 2026-10-12.
std_deduction_single, std_deduction_mfjIndexed: CPI-U (U.S. City Average, All Items), monthly average of the 12 months ending August 31 of the prior year; the increase rounded down to a multiple of $5.ORS 316.695(1)(c)(C): the basic standard deduction ($1,640 single/MFS, $3,280 joint, $2,640 HOH base) is recomputed each year by the CPI-U ratio; a change that is not a multiple of $5 is rounded down to $5.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Annual CPI-U recomputation and $5 rounding. Quoted: "the Department of Revenue shall annually recompute the basic standard deduction for each category of return filer"; "is not a multiple of $5, the increase shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of $5". Checked 2026-10-12.
std_deduction_hohIndexed: CPI-U (U.S. City Average, All Items), monthly average of the 12 months ending August 31 of the prior year; the increase rounded down to a multiple of $5. The engine carries the 2025 figure (the latest published) for 2026, so a projection adds 1 year of indexing at the factor's average annual rate.Same ORS 316.695(1)(c)(C) indexing for the head-of-household amount ($2,640 base). The engine's $4,560 is the TY2025 amount (proxy).
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): HOH base and indexing. Quoted: "$2,640, in the case of a head of household"; "is not a multiple of $5, the increase shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of $5". Checked 2026-10-12.
  • 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (Oregon Department of Revenue, instructions): TY2025 HOH basic standard deduction $4,560. Quoted: "$4,560". Checked 2026-10-12.
std_deduction_aged_add_unmarried, std_deduction_aged_add_married, blind_std_add_unmarried, blind_std_add_marriedFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.ORS 316.695(7) gives an additional $1,000 per age-65+ or blind box ($1,200 if unmarried); only the basic standard deduction is indexed, so these amounts are fixed.
exemption_credit_per, dep_creditIndexed: CPI-U (U.S. City Average, All Items), monthly average of the 12 months ending August 31 of the prior year; the increase rounded to the nearest $1.ORS 316.085(3): the personal exemption credit ($90 base per federal exemption, dependents included) is recomputed each year by the CPI-U ratio and rounded to the nearest $1 ($263 for 2026).
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): CPI-U recomputation, nearest $1. Quoted: "Recompute the dollar amount of the personal exemption credit by multiplying $90 by the appropriate indexing factor"; "Round off the amount obtained under this paragraph to the nearest $1.". Checked 2026-10-12.
exemption_credit_agi_limit_single, exemption_credit_agi_limit_jointFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.ORS 316.085(5): no exemption credit above federal AGI of $200,000 (joint/HOH/surviving spouse) or $100,000 (others); no adjustment provision.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Fixed AGI limits. Quoted: "federal adjusted gross income for the tax year exceeds $200,000 for joint return filers, a surviving spouse or a head of household, or $100,000". Checked 2026-10-12.
disabled_creditEnacted schedule: 2028: $0; held at the 2028 value after 2028.ORS 316.758: an extra credit equal to the (CPI-indexed) personal exemption credit for a taxpayer with a severe disability; by Oregon Laws 2009 c.913 s.42 it may not be claimed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028. 2027 = the indexed exemption credit (same indexing as or-exemption-credit), 2028 onward = 0.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Credit equals the exemption credit; sunset 2028. Quoted: "The amount of the credit shall be equal to the amount allowed as the personal exemption credit"; "ORS 316.758 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028.". Checked 2026-10-12.
dep_disabled_creditEnacted schedule: 2028: $0; held at the 2028 value after 2028.ORS 316.099: an extra exemption credit for a child with a disability, computed as under ORS 316.085 (CPI-indexed); by Oregon Laws 2009 c.913 s.39 it may not be claimed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028. 2027 = the indexed exemption credit, 2028 onward = 0.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Computed as the exemption credit; sunset 2028. Quoted: "The amount of the credit allowed for the dependent for the tax year shall be calculated as provided in ORS 316.085."; "ORS 316.099 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2028.". Checked 2026-10-12.
disabled_credit_agi_limit, dep_disabled_credit_agi_limitFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.ORS 316.758 and 316.099 allow the disability credits only at federal AGI not over $100,000; fixed amounts (and the credits end after 2027).
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Fixed $100,000 limits. Quoted: "Has federal adjusted gross income that does not exceed $100,000 for the tax year."; "for a taxpayer with federal adjusted gross income that does not exceed $100,000". Checked 2026-10-12.
dep_disabled_credit_max_ageAttained age: the same age in every year.The disabled-child credit is for a dependent child age 21 or younger (a fixed attained age per the OR-40 instructions).
  • 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (Oregon Department of Revenue, instructions): Age 21 or younger. Quoted: "child, age 21 or younger, who was eligible for early". Checked 2026-10-12.
fit_deduction_cap_single, fit_deduction_cap_mfjIndexed: CPI-U (U.S. City Average), 12 months ending August 31 of the prior year over Sept 2005-Aug 2006; the increase rounded down to a multiple of $50.ORS 316.695(3)(b)/(f): the federal-tax subtraction limits ($5,500 base, stepping down by $1,100) are adjusted each year by the CPI-U (base Sept 2005-Aug 2006), adjustments rounded down to $50 ($8,750 for 2026).
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Cost-of-living adjustment of the federal income tax threshold amounts. Quoted: "shall make a cost-of-living adjustment to the federal income tax threshold amounts described in paragraphs (b) and (d) of this subsection"; "the adjustment shall be rounded to the next lower multiple of". Checked 2026-10-12.
  • Oregon Withholding Tax Formulas 2026 (206-436) (Oregon Department of Revenue, instructions): 2026 cap $8,750. Quoted: "federal tax withheld (not to exceed $8,750)". Checked 2026-10-12.
fit_phaseout_start_single, fit_phaseout_start_mfj, fit_phaseout_step_single, fit_phaseout_step_mfjFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.The federal AGI bands of ORS 316.695(3)(b)-(c) ($125,000 to $145,000 in $5,000 steps; joint $250,000 to $290,000 in $10,000 steps) are not among the amounts (3)(f) indexes; DOR's 2025 table still uses $125,000-$145,000.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Fixed AGI bands. Quoted: "federal adjusted gross income of the taxpayer for the tax year is $125,000 or more and less than $130,000, or, if reported on a joint return, $250,000 or more and less than $260,000". Checked 2026-10-12.
  • 2025 Form OR-40 Instructions (Oregon Department of Revenue, instructions): 2025 table still $125,000-$145,000. Quoted: "$145,000 or more". Checked 2026-10-12.
ric_base_single, ric_base_mfjEnacted schedule: 2027: ric_base_single $7,500, ric_base_mfj $15,000; 2028: ric_base_single $7,500, ric_base_mfj $15,000; 2029: ric_base_single $7,500, ric_base_mfj $15,000; 2030: ric_base_single $7,500, ric_base_mfj $15,000; 2031: ric_base_single $7,500, ric_base_mfj $15,000; 2032: ric_base_single $0, ric_base_mfj $0; held at the 2032 value after 2032.ORS 316.157(2)(d): net pension income is limited to $7,500 ($15,000 joint), fixed amounts with no adjustment; by Oregon Laws 2009 c.913 s.36 (as amended by 2025 c.562) the credit may not be claimed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2032, so the base is $7,500/$15,000 through 2031 and 0 from 2032.
  • ORS chapter 316 (2025 edition), Wayback copy 2026-05-13 (Oregon Legislature, statute): Fixed bases and 2032 sunset. Quoted: "or the excess, if any, of $7,500 over the sum of the following amounts"; "ORS 316.157 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2032.". Checked 2026-10-12.
ric_household_base_single, ric_household_base_mfjFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.ORS 316.157(2)(d): household income over $15,000 ($30,000 joint) reduces the base; fixed amounts (the credit itself ends after 2031).
ric_min_ageAttained age: the same age in every year.Eligible individuals must have attained 62 before the close of the tax year: a fixed attained age.
cap_loss_limit, cap_loss_limit_mfsFixed in law: held at the rules-year amount in every later year.The state follows the federal net capital loss limit of IRC 1211(b): $3,000 ($1,500 MFS), a fixed amount with no inflation adjustment.
  • 26 U.S.C. 1211 (limitation on capital losses) (Cornell LII (U.S. Code), federal): The capital-loss deduction against ordinary income is a fixed $3,000 ($1,500 MFS); section 1211 contains no inflation adjustment. Quoted: "$3,000 ($1,500 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), or". Checked 2026-10-12.

Enacted for later years, not applied by the projection

None found: the research found no change enacted for years after 2026 beyond the schedules above.

What the engine does not calculate, and known approximations

What the engine does not calculate for any state (itemized deductions, credits beyond those listed, part-year residents, and more) is listed on the calculation order page.

Verification

Worksheet-tested backend/tests/test_state_worksheets_3.c replays Form OR-40 lines 7-25 (2025 booklet, 2026 figures): tax table midpoint method and rate charts S/J, the federal tax liability subtraction worksheet with Table 9, and the exemption credit worksheet.