by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 24, 2020 | Program Evaluation
Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office has suggested making the Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) tax credit refundable, which would eliminate the portion of the tax credit going to tax brokers and increase the funding available to target businesses. Other proposed...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 12, 2020 | Sustainability
Why do we use incentives? We use them to achieve our economic development goals. Increasing numbers of countries and communities have ambitious plans to reach specific sustainable development goals (SDGs). Tax incentives can be harnessed to support...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 23, 2020 | Opportunity Zones, Uncategorized
The 2019 Menino Survey of Mayors asked for mayors’ opinions on the federal Opportunity Zones program. The mixed findings reflect the national debate on whether opportunity zones are a good “plan to help distressed America” or “a windfall for the rich.” About half of...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 15, 2020 | Program Evaluation
You may have seen these articles last week: Economists question the benefits of targeted tax breaks (WSJ)Tax incentives fail to spur broad economic growth, study finds (Route Fifty)State, local tax breaks for businesses usually don’t boost the economy, study...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 8, 2020 | Incentive programs
It’s the new year and we still have a few minutes to think about strategy. Soon enough we’ll be in the middle of projects and daily crises. Before that happens, consider adding these three tasks to your annual plan. We promise your incentive program will be better off...
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