An Oregon nonprofit and several allies are suing Hillsboro and Washington County over allegedly issuing improper property tax breaks for 17 data centers.
The city raced to respond to a flood of tax break applications from tech companies this spring, beating a state moratorium on new data center tax breaks that took effect June 6.
Hillsboro’s enterprise zone tax breaks are nominally limited to five years, but The Oregonian/OregonLive reported last month that some tech companies were seeking to lock in their tax breaks for decades. They did so by submitting a series of applications that would take effect in successive five-year intervals, collectively slashing their tax bills for decades into the future…