Where we are
119 East 2nd Street, Suite 207, The Dalles, OR 97058. Call 503-785-3200 or email info@hts.tax.
Our Gorge office is at 119 East 2nd Street, Suite 207, in downtown The Dalles — a block from the courthouse and walkable from most of the downtown core.
Getting here
From I-84, take the exit into downtown and head for East 2nd Street. We are a block from the Wasco County courthouse, in a building with the office upstairs at Suite 207 — worth knowing before you arrive, because the street entrance does not announce it. Coming from Hood River it is about twenty-five minutes on I-84; from Dufur, twenty minutes north on Highway 197; from White Salmon or Bingen, across the Hood River bridge and east. Downtown parking is on-street and generally straightforward outside event weekends.
What an appointment involves
Farm and orchard appointments run longer than an individual return, and it helps to bring the depreciation schedule from last year along with the return itself. If you are bringing a crop year rather than a calendar year of records, say so when you book. For seasonal payroll, bring the quarterly filings as well as the wage records — the two frequently disagree, and reconciling them is usually where the work is.
Who you will see
Heather covers the Gorge office. Agricultural returns, Gorge business work and cross-river questions from Klickitat and Skamania county residents all come through here. Bookkeeping and payroll clients in the Gorge are supported by Katie remotely, which works well for businesses whose books need attention monthly rather than in person.
What is delivered from this office
Individual, farm and business tax preparation, seasonal and agricultural payroll, bookkeeping support, tax planning, IRS representation and notary services including loan signings. The Gorge work has a different shape from the metro work — more Schedule F, more inventory, more seasonality, far fewer local income taxes — and this office exists so that shape is understood by someone ninety minutes closer than Portland.
Serving both sides of the river
Klickitat and Skamania county residents working on the Oregon side are in exactly the position Clark County commuters are in at the other end of the Gorge, and nobody in this market has been telling them so. If you live in White Salmon, Bingen, Lyle, Stevenson or Goldendale and work in Wasco or Hood River county, the Oregon non-resident return is the conversation to have.
When we are open
By appointment, all year. Call 503-785-3200 and we will arrange a time that works. This office does not keep walk-in hours.
Your first visit
What to expect in the Gorge
Call first
This office runs by appointment all year, so ring 503-785-3200 before you travel. It is a long drive to a locked door.
Bring last year’s return
It tells us more in two minutes than a questionnaire does in twenty — what you file, what you claim, and what changed.
A complimentary 15-minute introductory call
We talk about your situation and whether we are a good fit. No tax advice is given on this call. See our starting prices.
Or do none of it in person
Every service here runs remotely if you would rather not drive anywhere. Documents by secure upload, the review by video call.
Which tax jurisdictions The Dalles is actually in
The Dalles is in Wasco County. Oregon’s local tax boundaries do not follow city limits or ZIP codes, so this is worth being precise about.
- Outside the Metro district, so Metro SHS does not apply to residents here.
- Outside Multnomah County, so Preschool for All does not apply on residency — but it can still apply to income sourced to work performed in the county.
- No City of Portland taxes of any kind — no Arts Tax, no Business License Tax.
- Outside the TriMet district, so there is no TriMet payroll or self-employment tax — the statewide transit tax on wages still applies.
- The statewide transit tax still applies to wages for work performed here, as it does everywhere in Oregon.
The local economy, and what it means for a tax return
Wasco County runs on orchards and wheat, the port and river freight, a substantial data center presence, and the tourism and hospitality business that comes with the Gorge. That produces a distinctive mix of tax work: seasonal agricultural payroll, farm depreciation and equipment planning, hospitality bookkeeping with heavy seasonality, and a lot of households where one spouse is on a W-2 and the other runs something.
We work with clients around the downtown historic district on 2nd Street, the Port of The Dalles, the orchards running east toward Dufur and Mosier and Hood River, about twenty miles west.
Who we work with in The Dalles
- Orchardists and wheat growers across Wasco County, most of them filing Schedule F with equipment schedules going back decades
- Cideries, wineries and food producers, where inventory accounting rather than local income tax is the hard part
- Hospitality and recreation businesses whose year is compressed into a few months
- Households where one spouse is on a data center or public sector wage and the other runs something seasonal
- Washington-side residents in Klickitat and Skamania counties with Oregon-source wages
Tax preparation in The Dalles
Our Gorge office is on East 2nd Street in downtown The Dalles, a block from the courthouse. Returns here look nothing like Portland returns, and that is the point of having someone local.
No Metro SHS, no Preschool for All, no Arts Tax, no TriMet — every Portland-area tax layer is absent here, and a preparer who assumes otherwise adds cost and confusion.
Farm returns, orchard depreciation, seasonal payroll and the timing of a harvest year are the recurring work. Schedule F and farm income averaging are routine, not exotic.
Klickitat and Skamania county residents working on the Oregon side have exactly the Vancouver problem, seventy miles east — an Oregon non-resident return on the Oregon-work portion only.
What we do most of in The Dalles
Tax situations we see in The Dalles
The absence of a local tax layer
A business in The Dalles has a materially simpler compliance position than an equivalent business in Portland. No Metro Supportive Housing Services tax, no Multnomah County Preschool for All, no Arts Tax, no Portland Business License Tax, no county business income tax and no TriMet payroll tax. What remains is federal, Oregon, the statewide transit tax on wages, and Oregon CAT if commercial activity is large enough. Preparers who work primarily in the metro sometimes apply the metro checklist here and create obligations that do not exist.
Crop years and tax years do not line up
An orchard year begins with pruning in the winter, spends money through the spring, and produces revenue in a few weeks of late summer. A calendar tax year cuts through that at an arbitrary point. Farm income averaging, careful equipment timing and correct treatment of pre-productive costs are what stop the return describing a business that does not exist. All three have to be elected or planned; nothing prompts for them.
Questions we get from The Dalles
Do I owe Metro SHS or Preschool for All living in The Dalles?
Not on residency — both are Portland-area jurisdictions. If you work in the Metro district or Multnomah County part of the year, income sourced there can still be reached.
Do you handle farm returns?
Yes. Schedule F, equipment depreciation, seasonal labor, crop insurance proceeds and the timing questions that come with an orchard year are routine work at this office.
I live in Washington across the bridge. Which return do I file?
If you work in Oregon, an Oregon non-resident return on the Oregon-source portion. Klickitat and Skamania county residents working in Wasco or Hood River counties are in exactly the same position as Clark County commuters — see the cross-border hub.
Is the office accessible?
The office is on the second floor at Suite 207. Tell us when you book if stairs are a problem and we will make other arrangements — a ground-floor meeting, or remote.
Do you travel out to farms?
By arrangement, and it is sometimes the sensible thing when the records are on the property and there is a lot of them. Ask when you call.
Do you take on clients from further east — Arlington, Condon, Moro?
Yes. The Dalles is the practical western edge of that country and we already work with households and operations out along the Columbia and up into Sherman and Gilliam counties. Most of it runs remotely with an occasional visit when the records justify one.
Come in, or work with us remotely
Bring last year’s return and whatever changed. Start with a complimentary 15-minute introductory call about your situation and whether we are a good fit.
Written by
Enrolled Agent, Oregon Licensed Tax Consultant
License number: Enrolled Agent 00160070-EA · Oregon Licensed Tax Consultant 35746-C
Heather has spent more than a decade preparing individual and business returns across the Portland metro and the Columbia Gorge, and holds unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS.
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This page is general information about Oregon, Washington and federal tax rules, not advice about your own return. Thresholds and rates change every year. Figures were verified as of August 2026 — check the linked official sources, or talk to us about your situation.