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 | 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 | Dec 11, 2019 | Program Evaluation
In 2013, Washington state offered Boeing and the aerospace industry a high-profile incentive package valued over time at $8.7 billion. Earlier this year the state’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC) completed a study of the aerospace tax...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 19, 2019 | Program Evaluation
Last November the District of Columbia’s Office of Revenue Analysis (ORA) released its “Review of Economic Development Tax Expenditures,” including an assessment of the city’s incentives for Qualified High Technology Companies (QHTC). By May, the DC Council had...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 1, 2019 | Incentive programs, Program Evaluation
Are state film incentives effective? A National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper from Patrick Button examines whether the presence of these incentives affected filming location decisions, employment, wages, and spillover effects for the period 1977-2018. Film...
by Smart Incentives | Jul 8, 2019 | Program Evaluation, Uncategorized
Gaining insight into tax incentive costs, benefits, and effectiveness was the top priority among delegates attending the regional seminar on Improving the Use of Incentives in the Southern Mediterranean (MED) Region. The seminar was part of the EU-OECD Programme...
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