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...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Mar 20, 2019 | Incentive programs
Smart Incentives talked with city leaders about specific steps to connect their incentive programs to equitable economic development goals during a webinar offered with the National League of Cities for the Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellowship...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 5, 2019 | Amazon
Amazon’s HQ2 raised new challenges for economic developers as they responded to a high-profile, public RFP promising a unique transformational economic opportunity. Our analysis of the HQ2 incentive offers makes clear that economic development organizations have...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 7, 2019 | Amazon
We continue our series on the Amazon HQ2 incentive offers by moving on to the local agreements, starting with Arlington, Virginia. What is incentivized Arlington has proposed to provide an annual pay-for-performance grant to Amazon to be funded through the Transit...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Dec 11, 2018 | Amazon
This is the third article in our series on the details of the Amazon incentive agreements with Virginia, New York and Tennessee. The state of Tennessee has offered a package of grants and tax incentives with a projected value of $102 million for an Operations Center...
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