Three Recommended Reforms For Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

Corporate Welfare | January 17, 2014

By David Stokes | Read Time 1 min

As Missouri’s General Assembly gets underway in 2014, they should move to reform Tax Increment Financing (TIF). David Stokes suggests three reforms that the legislature should enact this session:

Prohibit elected city officials from overriding county TIF commissions
Focus TIF subsidies on returning property to greenfield status
Prohibit TIFs from being awarded in floodplains statewide

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David Stokes

David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from...

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