tax-abatement

Real-estate professionals credit a five-year tax-abatement program offered by Union City in spurring developers to build condos and for luring prospective home buyers.

Tightly Packed Union City Welcomes More Joseph De Avila 2011

About half the states and probably hundreds of cities and counties have complementary tax-credit or tax-abatement regimes that in some cases also apply to non-income-generating properties.

The Bias Against Tradition Catesby Leigh 2011

PHILADELPHIA -- Some residents and lawmakers here are pushing to scale back a generous tax-abatement program started in the late 1990s to entice developers to convert empty office buildings into condominiums, and to erect new buildings.

Philadelphia Tax Breaks Draw Ire 2009

Some Philadelphia residents and lawmakers want to scale back a tax-abatement program enticing developers to convert empty office buildings into condos and erect new buildings.

The Taxes of Philadelphia 2009

Scott Lewis for The Wall Street Journal The renovation of the glass tower at Two Liberty Place, left, qualified for a Philadelphia tax-abatement program that started in the late 1990s.

The Taxes of Philadelphia 2009

If there needs to be a tax-abatement then allow it for that targeted industry.

Rudy Ad: He'll Give Us The Biggest Tax Cut Ever 2009

I think that tax-abatement deals violate equal protection principles.

dustbury.com » Oh, those wicked subsidies 2008

A developer's quest for a tax-abatement package from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency to help finance the construction of a new Family Dollar store in South Buffalo was approved but not before the deal was questioned by a prominent member of the agency's board of directors.

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Henrico Tuckahoe District S.pervisor Patricia S. O'Bannon will provide information about "Reinvest," Henrico County's new residential tax-abatement program, tomorrow at 7 p.m.

News for Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Times-Dispatch 2010

Since its inception in 1997, the city's tax-abatement program - which allows new or renovated properties to be taxed at pre-improvement values for 10 years - has spurred a glut of new construction in Center City and spawned $4 billion in economic activity throughout Philadelphia, making it more than worth the $27 million the program cost the city in lost property taxes between 1997 and 2006, according to reports by Econsult Corp. ADVERTISEMENT

The Clog 2010