Or. Admin. R. 150-305-0420 - Costs of Administration

150-305-0420
Costs of Administration

(1) The department shall estimate the fixed and variable costs to administer each of the personal income tax checkoff programs which have been approved by the Oregon Legislature or the Oregon Charitable Checkoff Commission for each biennium. The department shall set aside in an administrative expense reserve account 10 percent of the monthly contributions for each program until the fund balance equals the estimated fixed and variable costs for each checkoff program. No further charges to that program shall be made for the year.

(2) For purposes of this rule, examples of fixed costs include accounting time, programming time, and tax booklet revision. An example of a variable cost is data entry charges, which are dependent upon the number of returns filed contributing to the checkoff.