Three Recommended Reforms For Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

By David Stokes on Jan 17, 2014

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

Director of Municipal Policy

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